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I call this meeting for order.

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We'll call us established for item three minutes of meetings.

A minutes of March 24th, 2026 focused committee meeting and B minutes of March 31st, 2026 poll board meetings.

I have a motion to accept.

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We'll have you through here.

We'll make this in.

It'll take you probably ten years.

Anyway.

All right, item four staff reports and updates.

A manager's report first.

Yes.

Okay.

Um residential refuses tracking the same cells our uh recycling.

We removed zero carts for contamination in March.

Um AEL.

Uh the diversions, they've had several issues, or they've had crane issues.

It was one crane, then it became two.

Uh they got one back on, then it's kind of been bouncing back and forth.

They've also had their planned outages at the same time, so that's that's part of the reason for the diversions there.

Um we lost 18 customers in the twice-a-week service.

Uh next one is the mulch site.

Uh as you can see, and I kind of talked uh last month the same numbers.

If when you look at the green waste frog end dropped off versus ground, because we're not bringing in quite the volume like we were when we were doing the commercial, so they're able to stockpile a lot more and then grind kind of all at once.

So when you look at that bar graph, uh, even though it may seem like there was a lot more dropped off than ground, we're still keeping plenty ahead of what's coming in out there.

As you can see, the mulch-site customers, it was 2,731 uh Tulsa residents and 212 MOU customers.

Everything else is about the same.

I was surprised that we had uh 46 vehicles for firewood because it's been pretty hot.

Uh so that was interesting.

And then the next page on the bulky waste tonnage, we're plus 40 tons compared to last year at this time.

And then our intergovernmental, we're I know there for a few months we were kind of tracking pretty high over the the winter months, and that was like a lot of projects.

I know like uh uh flow line was doing a lot of cleanup in our yards, water parts do a lot of cleanups.

So if you look at this, uh the numbers for this month, we're actually down um 77 tons.

So we're kind of tracking back down to where we typically usually hang out at.

Um I just kind of pulled up some of the months of September, October, November, December, and January.

They were all 100 plus ton days or 100 plus ton months, and I a lot of that was contributed just I guess a lot of yards cleaning out.

Uh we were up 11 tons from last year at this time on a legal dumping.

And so 3.14 tons of dead animals, and that's both internal city and then also county MOU as well.

That's all the numbers I have.

Umners.

That's all I have right now.

Good afternoon.

Hey Brian, I've got the report for the household pollutant collection facility for the month of March.

Uh unfortunately, we broke our streak of having higher numbers than we did last year, uh, but we did have one less day of operation than last year, so I'm gonna chalk it up to that.

Still had very good numbers though, and there's nothing uh disappointing about the numbers.

455 uh total cars visited the HHP in March, um, which is definitely an increase from last month.

Um we're seeing that kind of spring uptick in customers.

Um April so far the numbers look really high, so I think we'll have a big jump in next month's report for sure.

The swap shop is still kind of trying to catch up on items, um restocking the shelves, but we had uh uh 39,000 uh 248 pounds of pollutants collected in March, with uh that's 87 pounds per customer.

Uh we had 162 swap shop customers who took uh 593 items out of the swap shop totaling uh 1,662 pounds of pollutants exiting that way.

Um other than that, we are just in operation as usual, uh, with the exception of the insulation being installed in the building currently, which should be finished up hopefully today.

The rain might have set it back another day, but um next meeting I'll have some before and after photos for you guys.

Yeah, great.

That's all I have unless there are any questions.

Thank you.

Sure.

You have about five or six thousand cars a year, roughly.

How many of those are repeat or would come twice?

I mean is it pretty much if people come once a year?

Or you don't have many repeat visitors?

Um that's a good question.

I haven't looked at those numbers to be honest.

Do you have that data?

Uh I think we can gather that data, yeah.

I'd be curious.

Okay.

You know, sure.

I can made note make a note of that and bring that next time.

5,000 different customers, that's a pretty good.

I mean, that's a lot of people.

Sure.

A year.

But but if it's like really just 250 and 2001, 2500 and two, you know, people are coming twice.

Yeah.

It definitely happens.

You know, we ask uh folks all the time if you've visited the collection facility before, and they say, Yeah, that's an awesome experience.

Yeah.

And didn't you have like a little spell of people who would come and pick up real regularly?

I'm talking about the drop-offs, not the not the pickups, not we did have the swap shop visitors that were repeat customers.

Okay, now I have a question.

Sure.

Sorry.

Uh so do you think we could collaborate with like renters like the villager associations to remind landlords that we have this like as they're cleaning out spaces and apartments with chemicals and paints, they'll have somewhere to take it.

Do we do that already?

No, that's tough because that would be business or commercial related.

Oh, and we have to stay in the household region uh unless we're gonna go to the it would change our permit.

It's a it's perfectly my mind would yeah.

That's that's kind of the the renters kind of gets really close to that line, and we don't want to do anything that would be in violation of the permit that we're given.

So I could talk about it at a community meeting.

Absolutely.

That could be a way.

And the renters themselves, because they have a multiple address, take them before they move out.

They could, and and I'm not saying that they don't, and we just aren't aware of it too, you know.

I mean, that it is their house, like you said, it's their address, and maybe they bring some of that stuff in when it's in a kind of a large quantity.

Uh we may ask the question and sometimes get that answer and say politely we have to refuse you know service for you, but yep.

I think we definitely could work with our community builder program to have them remind their renters, their tenants of this program that would be.

I'm just trying to look of different ways to collaborate and get the word out for some people who might not be willing to get that 5,000 number up.

Yeah, sure.

Well, and I know in in the past when we've done neighborhood cleanups and we have uh a bulk of neighbors that maybe go in for our trailer to get it there, you know.

Um they have let us do that as long as we've run everybody's address.

Because not everybody has a trailer to take everything out, so that was helpful, and but we often say bring all of your household pollutants to the the dumpster, we won't put them in the dumpster, but we'll take a big load over.

But you have to put your address down on the sheet of paper so that they know that it's it's from a neighborhood collection rather than a commercial business.

Well, that's amazing.

That's a good idea.

That would be amenable because nobody's benefiting off of that, you know, business wise or monetarily from the case.

But they let us do that in the past when we've done DOS and cleanups.

So that's something you can pass along to people that if there is a neighborhood cleanup, you just have to collect everybody's address that's putting something on the trailer so that they have the whole list of addresses where the pollutants came from.

You might if they do that, please give us a call and give us a heads up so we know to expect that and we don't you know refuse it under suspicions or you know whatever.

Yeah, I was always good about just emailing and saying we're having a DOS and cleanup, we're probably gonna bring a trailer full, we'll bring all the addresses just so that they have a heads up that there might be a big load coming.

But but it's from the whole neighborhood since I had a lot of older neighbors that couldn't get out there.

It's nice that you guys do that.

Thank you.

Yep, sure thing.

Thank you.

Smart if you guys item five, monthly financial report for the period ending March 31st, 2026.

Katie.

I like your bangs.

Oh, thanks.

All right, I have another great report, financial report.

Uh so this is through March.

And can we go to page two?

Yep, that's all right.

So we had total revenues of 31.9 million, almost 32 million.

Um, we estimated we'd be at 74.58% to this point in the year, and we're at 77.41, so a little bit ahead there.

Um, that's about 1.1 million over.

On just charges for services, we're at 31 million, and that's about almost 800,000 over 793,000.

So revenues continue to come in.

Come in really well, nothing out of the ordinary there.

Um, on expenditures, we have total expenditures of 39.3 million.

Um, that is 83.18%, and we said we'd be at 77.38%, so just a little bit ahead on that.

Um, but as always, the encumbrances contribute to that kind of being maybe being a little bit over, um, usually a lot more over the beginning of the fiscal year, and then it'll be less over toward the end.

Um, but you can see at the the pie chart that we have 12.4 million in encumbrances and commitments, and then 26.8 million in actual expenses.

Um, so that encumbrance portion is is always getting smaller as the year goes on.

Um but yeah, things are going really well.

We just sent out our budget just sent out um message to the departments about year-end reappropriations.

Um so as excuse me, as the year gets closer to the end, there could be uh requisitions for items that the departments have submitted and are with purchasing those requisitions, those purchases may not get completed by fiscal year end.

So if it's not going to be done by them, but they still need to do it.

We reappropriate the funds for the next fiscal year, and then that way, like the first couple of months of the next fiscal year, they can finish out getting that stuff purchased and be able to retain those funds to get that completed.

Um we're sending that out, and um, I think the end of next week is when we need those back to start planning that the reappropriation list for the approval with the budget adoption.

So other than that, I mean things things look good, everything everything seems to be in order.

Yep.

Okay, all right.

Thank you.

Item six thousand county memorandum of understanding for data and we'll pick up.

Yes, I mentioned this during last week's focus meeting.

This is uh can you continue the MOU agreement we have with the county with the data and we'll pick up the board so it will uh continue on sounds good?

Do we need to vote on that?

Yes, do I hear a motion?

I make a motion that we accept this agreement.

Oh second, oh those questions.

Item seven, Metropolitan Environmental Trust, second joint cooperative in our local agreement.

Yes, this is the agreement we have with the uh the Met, and after review this week, we noticed that the uh Met Council didn't sign it.

Um so it needs signatures.

Terry's not gonna be here today, so we're gonna need his signature as well.

So um we're gonna have to get these signatures at a later date if that's possible and asking.

Yeah, how do we want to push this till next month?

How yeah, I don't think we have to have this until the end of June.

So we don't notification is just added by April 30th.

So like last year we signed it in May, but the years before we signed it in April and just went out and put it on.

We're okay if we want to do it in May.

Okay.

I recommend that we table this till May.

So we'll get the rest of signatures.

Okay.

That's not a problem for the Met, right, Bobby?

Okay.

I just figured since you're sitting back there, we should ask your opinion.

I think we're asked.

No problem.

We'll just continue that till Megan so we can get it correct.

Item eight, refuse collection fees and change charges of service.

Yes.

Uh so we've this all this information is information we've already discussed and uh shared with you.

Uh Terry, want to make sure that you have the most latest updated version of all the forms put together one uh together.

Uh this is what's gonna be presented to council tomorrow uh at 2 30, and he again wanted me to share this with you so if you showed up tomorrow uh that you would have the proper information attending.

I can go over this again, but again, this is all the information that we've already kind of covered.

Yes, yes.

Uh water department would be there, and then we'll be there.

I believe our time is 2 30, Cheryl.

Is that our time?

Oh 2 30.

Do you need one of us to be there?

Uh Terry said usually Chuck shows up or he says usually have some tear board member there, so if one of you or a couple of you would like to attend, that would be great.

Well, I'll be in the building just in case he doesn't show or be there.

Yeah, I'll be there.

I mean, if we want to talk about it, I can but uh you know great.

All right.

I will not be there.

Too many cooks.

We can zoom in on call me to item nine, new business.

Is there any new business?

Item 10, public comments, and public comments.

I did want to just say that uh we got our commercial garden, our community garden put in.

We did 19 beds with the mulch that we got from the family site.

Um, and so we have uh and seven fruit trees.

Um so we're well under our way of having a fully fledged community garden in the Boston neighborhood.

Where is it?

Amazing.

It's on uh 5101 East Pine Street, it's two doors down from the grocery store.

Council.

How many acres an acre?

Um, well, we have the whole 29 acres there, but um the grocery is just on about a half an acre plot right now.

Um we have plans to do more, but we didn't want to bite off more than we could do at first.

We want to make sure the kids will be successful and feel successful this first time out and actually get some tomatoes grown and and some things that they could actually pick and learn to can and things um before we bought bid off too much.

But we are taking donations, we have some room left in the bed.

So if anybody has spare plants that they want to donate, we would happily take them or any spare fruit trees.

We have four apples, two peaches, and two fig trees and two blackberry bushes so far.

So if anybody has anything they'd like to donate, we would be more than happy to take them uh to put them in.

And we're getting um two beehives next week.

So it will be a full garden.

So I'm excited about that.

Um that we bought to fill part of the beds with, and we got huge donations from those for our raised beds and stuff.

So it's been a really great project.

That's cool.

For all the hard work.

Just an update that that the molts went to good use and it's uh growing things, and all of this rain has been really good for it so far.

Well, if you need more, let me know.

Okay.

Guys, I have another announcement.

Uh Steve Schuler's let us know that he's fully retiring at the end of the month from the firm.

So uh I know good for him.

I'm I'm glad that he's actually.

Steve served on the tear board for a while, a while back and has served as outside council for about 15 years.

Um and he's joined us by video a few times because he's been in Dallas for gosh, at least five years now where his grandkids are.

Um, and he's he wanted me to pass on how much he appreciated the opportunity to work both on and for the board.

Um, I think it's one of the things that kept him going past when he could started retiring.

Well tell him if he's ever in town.

We would love to celebrate his retirement with his face.

Yes, I I think he intended to be in town this week and he had something come up and he wasn't, so I think he was hoping to.

Gotcha.

Well, tell him we love him very much and he will be really missed.

But we cannot fault him for all of his years of service.

He deserves to take.

So I'll pass that along.

Thank you.

But I can still be selfishly managed.

Send him a note, tell him you're mad.

Any other announcements?

Are you all gonna have a party for him?

Yes when he's able to come up, we're gonna have a going away.

Some of the summer club or something.

Yeah, we'll do a dinner.

Well, if it wouldn't be too much to ask, I would love to just drop by and give him a card.

Absolutely.

Yeah, that'd be great from the from the board.

From us, yeah.

So we could just let him know how much we love him.

Absolutely.

I appreciate that.

Uh if there's nothing else, the date of our next meeting will be uh Tuesday, May 26th at 3 30 p.m.

in conference room 10 north at City Hall and Technology 175 East 2nd Street.

However, I should probably announce right now that I won't be here for that many.

So someone will have to run it.

No, no!

Chuck will Chuck will be here.

No, no, no, no.

I have no I wanna I want to experience I'm gonna get to take a lifelong uh uh trip, uh desired trip to Turkey.

So I'll be in Turkey.

To where?

Turkey.

Good for you, yeah.

So it's a great country.

So I'll be in Turkey on May 26th.

So that'd be fun.

Yeah.

Um with that we're in turn.

So thank you all.