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Environmental Board November 30, 2022 Page 2 DRAFT MINUTES Mr. Nelson responded that he had not received complaints, but would explain the City policy if questions did come up, noting that the residents on Stallion Lane did still have one boulevard tree per house. 7. UPDATES A. General Updates Mr. Nelson stated that he would provide an annual forestry report for 2022 at an upcoming meeting after submitting information for the Tree City USA program. Mr. Nelson also noted that there is a tree sale advertisement in the City Newsletter, which is a good program for residents who are losing a lot of trees to EAB. The tree sale occurs every year during the winter and the City usually sells about 100 trees per year. B. Recycling Updates Ms. Philippi provided an update that an average of 197 cars showed up at the last three months of Recycling Saturday for All Appliance Disposal. An average of 69 cars usedFirst Choice Document Destruction for paper shredding. There are now 472 participants in the organics program. Ms. Philippi stated that the Solid Waste Abatement Advisory Team meeting took place October 26, 2022 and provided a brief summary of this meeting. Ms. Philippi presented an overview of the parks recycling situation at each park in the City. Of the 22 parks in the City, 21 have garbage services and 41 bins in total. Next to most of the garbage bins are blue bins with a green cover for recycling. There are 19 parks with recycling services and 34 containers in total. During the summer, garbage and recycling bins are emptied every Monday mornings by the Parks department. The emptied materials are then bought to the dumpsters at Public Works. The Parks Department gave feedback that there is some cross contamination in the recycling bins. Depending on the amount of contamination in the bins, staff will either pick out the contamination or throw away the entire bag. Chair Sullivan asked if there are any instructions on the recycling containers, and if the staff ever considered adding labels. Ms. Philippi replied that there are no labels on the containers, but there are stickers available from the County that say no plastic bags.