The Tulsa Authority for Recovery of Energy (TARE) board met on Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 3:30 PM in Conference Room 10 North. The meeting covered staff reports on solid waste and household pollutant collection, the monthly financial report, approval of the FY27 operating budget and financial plan, approval of a CPI increase for American Environmental Land bill (AEL), and election of officers.
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Telsa Authority for Recovery of Energy. It's 3 30 today, Tuesday, June 30th here in Conference Room 10 North. I call this meeting to order. Would you please call the role? Alexander here. Claudine. Forbes here. Archie. Patrick. Here. Yay, we just made it. Um item three, minutes of meetings. A minutes of May 19th, 2026 focused committee meeting, and B minutes of May 26, 2026 full board regular meeting. Do we have any corrections or comments? Move to approve. Second. I'll show that. All right. Item four, staff reports and updates. A manager's report, Philip. Yes. So again, a residential and recycling pretty much is staying consistent across the board. Contamination, we removed 23 so far this year and 12 in May for uh latent contamination or repeat contamination. You can see our diverted loads to AEL. A lot of that has to do with the crane issues they had and some plan issues they've had. They've also had their uh scheduled outages, so that also contributed to the diversion loads as well. Um and some of the things I changed or added more data on is if you look at illegal dumping, I know it this is the timers report, and I always give you the tonnage, but I don't think you see the numbers behind the tone. So on legal dumping, um, so it's 38.10 tons, but uh during that illegal dumping, that was 23 investigations that we did in the process of that. So I know a lot of times I say you see the times we don't see what we did behind the scenes, which there's the investigations with that. Thank you for putting that in there. And then also if you look at the DC dumpsters, you know, again, I'm always used to telling you like there's 224.67 tons, and you know, I think that's a good number to see, but that's 89 dumpsters that we set. That's great. Yeah, so I think illegal sorry, back on the legal dumping, um, no citations. Are there they still under investigation? So those are investigations again that with investigations it's which we're hoping the flock cameras will help us do a better job at pursuing these because when we take it to the DA, they like they want to see a picture of the per they want to see a picture of your face. Not only your vehicle, but your face, and so there's times with some of our cameras we're using game cams, you know, and and so what we're running into is they're blurry. We may get a truck, it's a red truck, and we do have some licensed plate cameras that that you can buy, like that are hunting cameras that'll catch the plate, but again, we don't know if it was Durinda that did it. We don't know your vehicle, but not Dorinda, so a lot of times the DA won't pursue all that, even though we do the investigations and run down, you know, for months or maybe weeks of investigation. If we take it to DA, they're like, yeah, that's not enough. And so we don't get the citations behind that, but we're also going to write the site, and if you see the citations on there too. So we're hoping as flock gets more in line with no on online with us, then we're hoping to see more data on that citations. We'll see a number zero on citations. But right now, I think since I've been over here, I think we've written like two citations. So two and a half years. That's actually been pro that's been processed. Um, is it you're probably gonna have to check with legal on this, but um if we have the photo and can make out the license plate, can we send a letter to the owner of that vehicle to say we have this and it's at the same time? Well, we still go to the that person's address and we because I have an employee that has a building to write citations. So he informs them we're we've got your vehicle, we're under and you're under investigation, so we're doing all that already. Okay.