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09/23/1991 - Packet AGENDA SOLID WASTE ADVISORY COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 23, 1991 t 7:00 PM TIGARD CIVIC CENTER - TOWN HALL CONFERENCE ROOM 13125 SW HALL BLVD. TIGARD, OR 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL: McReynolds Dispenza Sullivan Irwin Jacobs Wogen Meinecke 3. APPROVE MINUTES: 8/15/91 4. REVIEW OF HAULER PROCEDURES - Request for consistency review of notice policy when no can will be out 5. SOLID WASTE ORDINANCE DISCUSSION - Status report - Council public hearing Tuesday, September 24, 1991 - 7:30 PM 6. RECYCLING PROMOTIONS .- Report by SWAC SubCommittee - Recycling Awareness Day - Saturday - October 12 - 10 AM to 3 PM - Tigard 7. OTHER BUSINESS 8. EXECUTIVE SESSION: The Solid Waste Advisory Committee will go into Executive Session under the provisions of ORS 192.660 (1) (f) & (h) to consider records that are exempt from public inspection and current/pending litigation. 9. ADJOURNMENT TO ENSURE A QUORUM TO CONDUCT BUSINESS, PLEASE CALL LIZ NEWTON AT 639-4171, EXTENSION 3081F YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND. le/u&f-a SOLID WASTE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES August 15, 1991 1. The meeting was called to order at 7:02 PM. 2. ROLL CALL: Present: Gerry McReynolds, Chairman Don Jacobs Mike Meinecke Mark Irwin CeCe Dispenza Mike Leichner, Pride Disposal Company Tom Miller, Miller Sanitary Service Larry Schmidt, Schmidt's Sanitary Service Loreen Edin, Staff Liaison Jim Coleman, City's Legal Counsel (left 7:55 PM) Lee Kell, Haulers' Legal Counsel 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: 7/15/91 Motion by Committee Member Meinecke, seconded by Committee Member Jacobs to approve. Approved by unanimous vote of Committee present. 4. SOLID WASTE ORDINANCE DISCUSSION - Following is a synopsis of the changes: A. GENERATOR HAULING OWN WASTE: Committee discussion centered around how waste would be measured in light of SB66 passage through the legislature which requires 45% of the Washington County wastestream to be recycled by 1995. Large amounts of waste leaving the stream would be difficult to measure without haulers involved. Also discussed was increased difficulty to enforce the solid waste ordinance with many unfranchised people hauling. After lengthy discussion, a motion by Committee Member Meinecke, and seconded by Committee Member Irwin was to authorize City's Legal Counsel to change language in Section 11.04.040 D. 1. to allow persons to transport any waste produced by that person from the site at which it is produced in a vehicle with a gross vehicle axle weight rating of no more than 10,000 pounds. Approved by unanimous vote of Committee present. B. FRANCHISE AMENDMENT PROCESS: Discussion followed regarding when the franchisee "may" vs "shall" sign an acceptance of an amendment. Motion by Committee Member Meinecke, seconded by Committee Member Irwin to authorize City's Legal Counsel (with review of Haulers' Legal Counsel) to create language in Section 11.04.080 C. which would show the following sections "shall" be signed upon an amendment decision by the City Council: 11.04.020 A. 1, 2, & 9./11.04.020 B. 2./ 11.04.040 D. 5./11.04.040 I. and 11.04.080 A. & B. Approved by unanimous vote of Committee present. PAGE 2 OF 2 SWAC MINUTES AUGUST 15, 1991 C. ADMINISTRATIVE RULE APPROVAL: Committee discussed the changes that City's Legal Counsel proposed noting the administrative rules would be enacted by the City Administrator unless the franchisee requested the City Council hold a public hearing on the proposed rule. Motion by Committee Member Irwin, seconded by Committee Member Meinecke to approve as written. Approved by unanimous vote of Committee present. D. Loreen Edin advised the Committee that the owner of the Joy Theater had called and noted that he would be requesting a grandfather clause be added for his business if the trucks were limited in size for one hauling their own waste. He had purchased a garbage truck recently to service his theaters. Jim Coleman Left - 7:55 PM 5. RECYCLING PROMOTIONS A. Gerry McReynolds requested that the Committee and Haulers begin focusing more on education of recycling preparation requirements. Loreen Edin noted that Statewide Recycling Awareness Week was 10/5/91 - 10/12/91. She stated that Washington County will be providing some educational material and displays for Saturday, October 12th at the Tigard City Hall. After further discussion, Committee members Meinecke, Dispenza, & Irwin volunteered to work on the Recycling Awareness Day at Tigard City Hall. Loreen Edin volunteered to assist. A full report of the planned activities will be presented at the September meeting. 6. OTHER BUSINESS: A. RECYCLING BINS: Loreen Edin reported that Washington County will not have bins available for distribution until February, 1992. B. REVIEW OF HAULER PROCEDURES - Loreen Edin reported that she was contacted by a citizen requesting a review of procedures for consistency regarding vacation or "no pickup" calls. Gerry McReynolds expressed concern about billing consistency for cans. After some discussion, consensus was to place on the next agenda. C. NEXT MEETING - Due to scheduling conflicts the next SWAC meeting will be held on Monday, September 23 , 1991 at 7:00 PM. 7. ADJOURNMENT: Motion by Committee Member Dispenza, seconded by Committee Member Jacobs to adjourn at 8:25 PM. Approved by unanimous vote of Committee present. H:\login\alice\loreen\swacmin • LlIq I Russ Gorsline 13431 SW Scottsbridge Dr. Tigard, OR 97223-1609 September 15, 1991 Ms. Loreen Edin City of Tigard P 0 Box 23397 Tigard, OR 97223 Dear Ms. Edin: As per our discussion recently, here is my letter regarding policies of garbage haulers. A few weeks ago the haulers missed our weekly pick-up on a Thursday. It wasn't until Friday night that I discovered this. Monday I called Miller's and reported the missed service. The customer service person told me that the haulers had had a mechanical problem on our day, and that another truck had helped out and that because our house is on a flag lot they probably didn't see our can. To make up for it, she said that we could have two cans taken on the following Thursday. As luck would have it, I was able to get by with only one can that week, so I called Miller 's again, and asked for a credit for one week 's service on my bill. I was told by another customer service person that they don't offer credits, only a second can pick up or a rush pick-up of your missed can. (I was not informed of the rush pick-up in my fist call. ) In a time when we are as a society trying to encourage less garbage to fill our land fills, it seems less than ecologically responsible, as well as fiscally unfair to their constituency, to not offer a credit for work not performed when due. I 'm sure that some of the haulers would claim that people would take advantage of such a policy, but I would counter that I believe a little more strongly in the integrity of the people of our community. I do not believe many people at all would abuse a reasonable policy. In absolute fairness to Miller's, I do need to tell you that all of my interactions with their staff have been quite professional on their part. Thanks for your consideration. Sincerely, Russ Gorsline MEMORANDUM �. CITY OF TIGARD, OREGON TO: Solid Waste Advisory Committee FROM: Loreen Edin DATE: September 18, 1991 SUBJECT: Agenda Item #4 - Review of Haulers Procedures At the last SWAC meeting, the Committee expressed the desire to consider consistency in the billing policy for "no can out" situations. There was also a request by a resident on Fairview Lane to review the 24-hour notice requirement for this same situation. As of today, I have not received a written request by the resident. Perhaps there will be someone at the meeting who wishes to discuss this issue. le/ms HILLSBORO LANDFILL INC. Siting 3205 S.E. MinterBridge Road Sanitary Landfills Design Hillsboro, Oregon 97123 Construction Gary Clapshaw Operation President September 5, 1991 Re: New Tipping Fees Dear Customer: As you know, we have been constructing our new gatehouse and scales to weigh all in-coming wastes. In order to convert from charging by cubic yards to tons, we had to get approval for the proposed tonnage tipping rates from Washington County. The Washington County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC) has recommended for approval our proposed tonnage tipping rates. The County Board of Commissioners must ratify the SWAC recommendation before the new tipping rates can be put into effect. The County Commissioners are expected to rule on the new tonnage rates sometime in September. Assuming final County approval , we plan to start charging the new tonnage rates effective October 1, 1991. The proposed tipping fees are as follows: All wastes coming from within METRO boundaries Base rate = $34 .82 Metro fee = 13.00 Metro excise tax = 1.83 DEQ fee = . 50 County fee = 1.50 $51.65 per ton Friable asbestos = $150P er ton Special Waste LUST soils, clean-up soils = $53 .00 per ton All other Special Waste non-soils wastes, including non-friable asbestos = $51.65 per ton All wastes coming from outside of METRO boundaries $36. 50 per ton ($39. 00 out of state) $134 . 50 per ton for friable asbestos ($137.00 out of state) We will practice weighing loads through our new gatehouse this month, but we will continue to charge by the cubic yard until October 1. • Dear Customer Page 2 We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you in the future. If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact Mike Sandberg, Charlie Gray or myself at 640-9427. S ncerely, Dave Zumw1 General Ma ger ..._ ..,........ ...••b,.w wNwun..uw °/VIVII\.N u�uai, vuuagcvua �.:� ^ <� a + "�` - 1' j......,.,.,� Bogl, over Northtvest Portland has wrested th d absolutely un- T-1 has tag luxury buildings from Leavitt, Shay&Co�ccessary." He ac "' ! "' t Portlai after the developer failed to repay its loan. k n o w l e d g e d h e den in Seafirst Bank filed a foreclosure action couldn't pay the several against Seattle-based Leavitt Shay on loan, but said he based f Aug. 2, shortly after the developer's $7.5 sought time to ar- Whit million construction loan came due. Leav- range alternate fi- A$7.5 million loan props up the trendy Uptown Heights apartments. a routi itt Shay also was four months behind in its nancing or sell the John Klicker firm-wi loan payments,according to Seafirst. 108-unit project. Re- slots tc In past years,banks were more likely to cent appraisals say the project is worth In court documents, Leavitt Shay said firm sir work out a deal to avoid foreclosure on a $8.85 million—or$1.35 million more than the buildings were filling up and the fore- Gates , prominent developer like Leavitt Shay. the loan amount. closure action will cloud efforts to rent him Au But Seafirst's rapid response signals a new At the bank's request, Multnomah empty units or sell the apartments. "Ric] get-tough attitude induced by crises in the County Circuit Court Judge Ancer Hag- The speedy foreclosure proceeding is an comple nation's real estate and banking indus- gerty appointed a neutral property manag- ominous sign for developers. Most of- for wh tries. er Aug. 16 to take over Uptown Heights. fices, apartments and other commercial said WI Thomas Leavitt, president of Leavitt A foreclosure sale was set for Dec. 20. Please turn to page 16 that th, ners rt g., Hayden U.S. Bank steps into ognitio' ' tributic Sequent credit void PoTtia , �.► `�r7. ' i will rem By JEFF MANNING ; But if a Sequent Computer Systems Inc. has seX11 the tol cured a $27.5 million line of credit from # " squirm U.S. Bank of Oregon and two other instt- sis here. tutions. 6 �. � , I,ItIs. Bob Gregg, Sequent vice president for practice finance, chief financial officer and treas ney wh( urer, is working to attract other banksgle's ral into the deal, building the credit line up to y '" ,,� ,, ,� ,»�,,, .. lack of $40 million or $50 million. The embattled s �°s"�'! u� ty,"the computer maker needs the credit line after The c ending its eight-year relationship with k,' ' 4 � r ;. ing with First Interstate Bank of Oregon in late success July. Tonkin The new debt agreement is a key step "' � £ •""' "` Booth for the Beaverton company, which hasz. one tim, suffered significant losses and eaten up , 5- „t - &° * attorne} much of its cash through the first six 1 ��� .d� ,dl� hfc .�,' �� t r..; neys, in months of the year. It's also a big accom 1 Ian 1 and eigh plishment for U.S. Bank, which has long But tt played second fiddle to First Interstate . fill Bank in serving the technology industry. boasts v s The deal also marks the first Portland- Washin, area deal to include Silicon Valley Bank of t neys. It San Jose, Calif. Silicon Valley, a high- a �,_` busines tech specialist that entered Portland only years ag weeks ago, and the Bank of Tokyo are � ' �.. 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Management Excellence..........................................22 proCeS$, t�teyYTe turnitlg`'damiaged';Sheets Qfn wailbord and Whltl Managing Your Business.........................................26 z., _ work an scraps;into fertilizers.; They re Br 1aB�r liackt> front tit caste Marketplace....................................................22 23 t ed the fi People on the Move.......................................24.25 Please turn t0 page 21, v Real Estate Report...................................................9 � z es were Small Business Saw 14 Re-cycler kee sheetrock outff landfills501' Continued from page 1 ff material for uses ranging from recy- The Tru( !led paper products to bedding for farm animals. Security As any dedicated gardener knows, �v, sprinkling gypsum over your vegetable patch, flower bed, or new lawn helps break up clay soils.Gypsum is also high in n sulfur and makes an ideal fertilizer.Tradi- L 2, tionally, the gypsum sold to farmers and suburbanites has been unearthed from mines in the Southwest. United Pacific, however, is the first company to sell recy- BUSIn cled gypsum. S "It's not just for ecology; it makes ex- tremely good business sense,"says Daniel Bailey, United Pacific's president and • Aug. 20—, chief executive officer. In fact, wallboard , uw scraps are so common that builders pay ��' • Au 29- United Pacific to get rid of the stuff. It _ g• makes money both on the finished prod- uct and by disposing of other people's dis- • Sept. 10— cards. .., . a Wallboard or sheetrock is used in vir- InternBtiOtt� sheetrock is piled high in United Pacific's 47,000-square-foot warehouse in Hillsboro. tually all building construction projects. John Mck r Call toda, And before the firm opened in 1989, (Members ani builders and their suppliers simply took While the company has spent a quarter enough to work their way.into the soil. en National A broken wallboard to the nearest garbage of a million dollars getting the gypsum After the first rain,the water-soluble pel- titana dump,Bailey says. Because the material is powder on the market, Bailey is confident lets.dissolve and release their nutrients. g easily damaged, disposal fees quickly add of United Pacific's success. "We'll always For weekend gardeners, the pellets could Complete Bus up• have an edge on the competition"he says, be loaded into a lawn spreader and aren't (SO Firms with broken sheetrock on their adding that the company doesn't have to as messy as gypsum powder. hands are now hauling the material to pay for mining and transportation costs. Bill Soule', the company's founder, United Pacific's factory in North Plains. In addition to agricultural uses,gypsum made the venture possible.Soule,a form- They also recycle the gypsum "spacers," is an ingredient in a myriad of products er sales representative and self-taught en- used to separate bundles of wallboard ranging from cosmetics to concrete. gineer, invented a machine that removes during shipping and handling with fork- the paper backing from wallboard. lifts. However, they only accept new, un- With patents pending on the device, the painted material. Soule's invention allows company is reluctant to let visitors inspect By offering to dispose of sheetrock United Pacific to produce Soule's invention.It's the key to the whole LAM scraps for$15 a ton, United Pacific keeps operation and allows United Pacific to TA�� a 47,000-square-foot building filled to the gypsum Ofhigh quality. produce gypsum powder of high purity. rafters. Unless the material is free of contami- p ofej Stand alongside this massive heap and Plants to recover gypsum from wallboard nants,it can't be spun into pellets.An or- it's clear that the company is reducing could be operated near any largeurban dinary rock-crusher turns the wallboard SM* wastes that would normally take up space area,Bailey says. into powder. Know in local landfills. And in March of 1990, "There is no other market for this mate- Greg Schmick, the firm's chief agrono- Inters United Pacific received a $54,000 grant rial. It has all been going into the land- mist,says the product is superior to mined .Good from the Metropolitan Service District. fill,"he says.Private investors have bank- gypsum and costs about the same. "It's The grant was part of Metro's "One Per- rolled the operation. The company now not only as good as brand new, but you lust aj cent Well Spent"program, a special fund has 11 employees and is just gearing up end up with something that's superior," some set aside for recycling projects. for full production.That,could amount to he says. Unlike the gypsum that's mined bare" The company has also received a tax 1,000 tons of gypsum a month. for agricultural uses, the gypsum used in As=ie credit from the Oregon Department of The young firm has already carved a Wallboards is highly refined. Powder pro- comrni Energy, equal to 35 percent of the ven- niche in the mushroom industry with its duced by United Pacific is 97 percent people, ture's cost. The credit is taken over five powdered gypsum, although Bailey de- pure, company officials say, so, ton for Assoctu years, 10 percent in the first two years, 5 clined to give its current sales or profits. ton,farmers get more usable product. youre, percent in the third, fourth, and fifth Gypsum pellets will be manufactured by Even the shredded paper backing, re- years. the end of the year. These pellets are an moved from the wallboard, has some val- Achim exclusive product of United Pacific, and ue. It's now being sold to a paper recy- Provfd could be added to fertilizers that are al- cling firm. Oregon State University Qual;0 Un d Grocers settl uit ready available at the local garden store. researchers are also studying its potential Since "Our future is developing new prod- as a replacement for straw used in animal 21 over s diseri ation ucts, lawn foods and fertilizer mixtures," stalls. With its gypsum coating, the paper r Su he adds. absorbs odors and has antibacterial Portlar U.S. Distric vC rt Judge James A. Powdered gypsum tends to blow away properties. Redden has sig an order resolving a when it's sprayed over a farmer's field. suit brought ainst nited Grocers Inc. Pellets, on the other hand, stay put long by the E al Employ nt Opportunity Comm' (EEOC). T suitt alleged that the ompany dis- cr' inated against women b neglecting t hire them for laborer positions in all nroduct warehouses_ except the aeneral :�'1 • 0 wa_, THE WASHINGTON COUNTY RECYCLING RODEO RECYCLING AWARENESS WEEK Oregon's sixth annual Recycling Awareness Week is October 5-12 . During this week the first ever "Recycling Rodeo" will be held to promote the cooperative recycling program that exists in Washington County. Our goal in holding this event is to draw positive attention to our recycling program, increase public awareness and encourage greater participation. Date: Tuesday, October 8 , 1991 Time: 12 : 00 P.M. - 2 : 00 P.M. Location: The Washington County Public Service Building 155 N. First Ave. , Hillsboro, Oregon Events: The Little Recycling Parade 12 : 00 P.M. - 12 : 30 P.M. Grade school children will have the opportunity to build mini floats and make costumes from recyclable materials and participate in The Little Recycling Parade. The floats will be judged and awards will be given. The Recycling Rodeo 1: 00 P.M. - 2 : 00 P.M. A timed competition involving the garbage haulers and their recycling trucks. The haulers will have to maneuver their trucks through an obstacle course and pick up curbside recycling set outs. The fastest hauler will receive a trophy. The Great Sort Off 12 : 30 P.M. - 1: 00 P.M. A timed competition involving elected city officals demonstrating the proper preparation of recyclables. Each city will be represented by two officals who will work as a team to sort out, and properly prepare, a box of items. To make this a successful event we need your active support. Each of us has worked hard to create a cooperative recycling program that consistently offers the highest level of service throughout the county. The Recycling Rodeo is an opportunity to promote our program and make a strong positive statement about the commitment to recycling in Washington County.