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I'm Province Councilwoman Joanne Ryan. This is the special commission for the study of Province's Waste Management Services, Wednesday, 08/07/2024. It is 05:30PM. Madam clerk, which plan agreed to roll. Chairman Joanne Langan?
Present. Vice chairman, Peter.
Present. Courtney Hawkins? Present. Tamara Husband? Present.
Patricia Coyne Bay in Jackson. Sheila Boni?
Present. And Samantha Burnett? Present.
And we have six brothers, one African. We have a following. Thank you very much. Let the record reflect. We are joined by solicitor Nelson.
Thank you very much for joining us. I hope that your son was successful in his baseball. Mhmm.. Oh, okay. You were all moving for.
Thank you. Thank you for being here. Also, let the record reflect that councilman has joined us this evening. Okay. With that, madam clerk, which I ask that you read item one into the record, please.
I do item one. And on a communication on school based diversion initiatives, and I will be done at gym form, riding school, recycling projects. Awesome. Okay. Before we start, I'd like to just get all of the exhibits into the record.
So work with me here. On the first exhibits, I have... I'd like to call five a, five b, and five c. They are the amendments that director appointed said she would provide to us amendments to the agreement to the agreement. The cash flowing agreement is item five, which is why I wanna call them five a, b, and c.
So may I have a motion, to do so?
Motion made by vice chair Esperan, seconded by seconded by commissioner Burnett. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Ayes have it.
Motion carries. We have, exhibits five a, b, and c. Okay. Then we are going to, call, the next exhibit. There's a multi multi multi page PDF on...
It's not numbered. Oh, yeah. It is. I love when they number the pages. Seventy seven seventy seven page PowerPoint presentation, improving...
Entitled improving residential recycling, compliance, and usage process for Rhode Island. Final presentation. Yes. I'm gonna call... It's the Harvard study that we spoke about at our last meetings.
We've referenced this a couple of times. I ask that it be provided to be entered into the record on... So we're gonna call that exhibit seven on motion made by vice chair, Kisphenol, seconded by commissioner Dormity. All in favor? Aye.
Opposed? Aye. Motion carries. So we have exhibit seven. Then we have a PowerPoint presentation, multi page document entitled waste diversion initiatives, city of Providence special commission, medical study farm and waste management services by Priscilla Teleprouse, director of sustainability, 08/07/2024.
I'd like a motion to call this on exhibit eight.
Made by vice chair Espinal, seconded by commissioner, Dominic. All in favor, aye. Any opposed? Ayes have it. Motion carries.
Move past eight. Okey dokey. Next one, multi page multi page PowerPoint presentation entitled bottle bills. It's this one here, folks. Bottle bills and waste reduction.
You got that to you? I do. Special commission for the study of Providence Waste Management Service, Kevin Budra, deputy director, just zero. I'd like to call this nine. Motion made by vice chair, Espenald, seconded by commissioner Dormey.
All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Ayes have it. It's in Paris.
We have exhibit nine. Okey Next one. We have a multi page PowerPoint presentation on title of city of province special commission for the study of province waste management dated August 7. Leo Pollock, cofounder and managing partner of Remix Organics. I'd like to call this exhibit 10.
That motion is made by vice chair Esperan. Second in line, commissioner Thorny. All in favor? Aye. Aye.
And opposed? Ayes have it. Motion carries. We have 10. And our last one is a multi page PowerPoint presentation.
It also has a couple of brochures, one in English and one in Spanish attached to it. It's entitled Get Clean Smart Rhode Island. Reduce, reuse, recycle, Rhode Island schools recycling project. And I would like to entertain a motion to call this exhibit 11. Motion made by councilman vice chair Espinal, seconded by commissioner Dominic.
All in favor, aye. Any opposed? Ayes have it. Motion carries. We have 11.
Thank you. Okey dokey. We've got a lot on the docket tonight. So, I wanted just... Before we start, our presentations, we had a open question at our last meeting about whether or not six units and above had to employ a private Mhmm.
Contractor, and there was discussion. I was confused. I asked for clarification. Miguel, do you wanna stand, please, from the policy office? Miguel Young was able to get some clarity on that topic.
I just wanna make it part of the testimony. Yay. I'm getting someone in. Let's Right at the end of the table so we can see you. Raise your
right hand. Do you swear under penalty of perjury that the testimony you are about
to give is the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth?
Please state your name and title for the record.,
deputy director of policy for the proxy.
Okay. Question on the table.
Right. So what I found was that's, seven units or more requires right at base disposal. I reached out to the director,. That was her response to me, and that is listed on the Citi website and an FAQ page. And I couldn't find it explicitly stated in the contract or anyone in court ordinances.
Although, I did find it in the RFP, which was shared actually in the first meeting, which I was not here for. It circled back to the. So that was the only place find that. It's supposed to be seven or more. So if you have a property with six units, that makes me an individual bigger waste work.
Okay. So there's also language in the contract on... That references commercial property?
There is. So in terms of property that is not covered or ineligible by the... Under the waste management contract, the only... My found language has said any commercial enterprise, which I found personally kind of vague. I'm not a lawyer.
