Once again our meetings keep becoming more and more productive & exciting!
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Sat, Feb 1st Meeting minutes
2/1/20, 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Morris Public Library Community Room
Attendees: Sydney Bauer, Brenna Rubendall, Amelia Nelson, Nic McPhee, Susan Gilbert, Noelle MuzzyAgenda
- Introductions (name, pronouns, what excites you about february?, something you want to tell your neighbors
- Announcements
- County Commissioner Meeting: Feb 4th 9AM @ Courthouse
- City Council Meeting: Feb 11th 5:15PM @ Council Chambers
- Margaret & Syd shared on Community Connection
- Plan for Waste Meeting
- Update on what has happened since Jan 11th meeting
- Time, date, location change
- Things to do still
- Email invites
- Radio, Newspaper, City Council Members, OOS interns, church leaders, climate community list, ask Ed Brands about extra credit for this meeting, etc.
- Posters
- Will send these to Jade and then hopefully we can go out and put them up sometime in the coming week
- Solidify questions
- Syd will sort & organize the questions below, send them to Troy & Bill as things we are thinking about, and then print off a few copies so we can have them at the meeting.
- Meeting Layout
- Introductions, let them “present”, open up for questions & discussion, exit poll that aids in small group discussion.
- POST waste meeting ideas
- March meeting ideas
- Discussion & plan, not another type of meeting
- Future meeting ideas
- Sandeep to present on city sustainability work
- Students who went on Germany trip to present about projects
- Future topic meeting about Transit
- Future event ideas
- Paul Martin Brat Stand
- Attending other groups events (Fergus climate ppl, CURE, etc)
- WCMNCN Book club
- Movie event
- Tabling with the farmers market
- Diy day (make bags out of recycled materials)
Discussion Questions for Waste Meeting
Please add your own ideas and questions here! Or you can comment with questions to add!
- (1) What is the process for handling garbage in our area? Where does it go? What does it cost?
- If users of the system work to make the system more efficient do we save money? Does getting unwanted materials out of waste streams save Engebretson’s money?
- What is the metric for how we pay for waste? Both in terms of business vs. residential rates and also in terms of how Engebretson’s pays to haul & dispose of it.
- How is the waste process different between residential and business?
- What are the proportions for residential and business waste? Who produces more waste?
- Are the impacts different between residential and business waste? Would changing the business waste system have more potential for positive change than changing the residential waste system?
- Is there a difference between how much recycling and garbage is being picked up? Is the desire to flip how often recycling/garbage pick up happens community wide? Is this something that could be changed with education?
- What data do you have that you would be willing to share publicly, is there data to be collected?
- (2) What is the process for handling recycling in our area? Where does it go? What does it cost?
- What can be recycled in our system?
- Do we save money recycling? Does Engebretson’s save money recycling? What are recycling incentives for waste haulers?
- Where is the benefit of recycling seen? In our community, in other communities?
- What impact has the “new” recycling system had on the waste stream?
- What happens to our recycling? Does it make sense where we are sending it?
- Does cleaning out our recycling have a large impact on its ability to be recycled?
- How much of our recycling is being throw into a landfill anyways?
- What types of things CAN be recycled but not in the general waste stream? Where should we recycle these things (light bulbs, e-waste, etc)?
- (3) What are important policies in regards to waste in our area? Who sets these policies? How have these policies changed?
- How are we/can we be cooperating with our neighboring counties on the waste problem?
- How are we/do we facilitate these conversations?
- (4) We have heard bits and pieces about the potential for a local composting program to begin, what is the story behind that and where in the process is it at now?
- (5) What do you wish people knew about the local waste process? How can our group be a helpful communicator for your waste goals?
- What are your waste goals?
- What do you want folks to know? What message can we help spread?
- Could we partner on a fun project?
- How could we work with kids in school?
TO DOs Before Feb 21st Waste Meeting
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Send out email invites to various groups
I will post a general email invite in the comments of this wiki. It will have a link in it to RSVP to the Feb 21st meeting. Please feel free to copy & paste it the email and then send it along to some of your networks. You are welcome to change the email however you want so that it will resonate more with your audience. Once you do that/once you know who you are going to send your email to please add that network to this list so we do not bombard the same people over and over again with emails. I have added some ideas below.- City Council: @syd (Sent: 2/3/20)
- Radio: @syd (sent: 2/1/20)
- Newspaper: @syd (sent: 2/1/20, they are going to post it in the community calendar)
- OOS/CST/OCE Interns: @syd (Sent: 2/3/20)
- Climate Community Email List: @syd (sent: 2/1/20)
- County Commissioners: @syd (sent: 2/3/20)
- UMM Posts: @Nec (Not sent yet), @Nic_McPhee (not sent yet)
- Ed Brands Ask him if this event can be used as extra credit for his courses and then ask him to send invite email to his students: @nomuzz (sent: 2/1/20)
- Planning commission?: @Margaret_K (Not done yet)
- Write up a KUMM event blurb?: @Nic_McPhee, @Susan_Gilbert (2 promos sent to KUMM manager, 1 for event and 1 for monthly meeting. 2nd Feb 2020)
- MCSA: @srosemark (Not sent yet)
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Hang up posters
- Syd is going to email Jade and ask her to print our posters. We can then gather as a group for coffee sometime and go on a poster distribution adventure. stay on the lookout for an email invite to do this with us. Here is the poster:
- Syd is going to email Jade and ask her to print our posters. We can then gather as a group for coffee sometime and go on a poster distribution adventure. stay on the lookout for an email invite to do this with us. Here is the poster:
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Put together exit survey
- We want to start this survey about 15/20 minutes before the meeting ends and we want it to encourage small group discussion. People will turn in this survey before they leave
- Survey Questions
- (1) Name, (2) email, (3) job/role, (4) What are some of your big takeaways from this meeting/what did you learn?, (5) What are some things you still have questions about/what do you want to learn more about?, (6) What surprised you about this meeting/What is something you will continue to talk about after this meeting?, (7) Who is someone you think would benefit from the information you learned here today?
- We could then have people split up into groups and talk about what they wrote down
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Make yourself a reusable name tag!
- We want to have name tags at this event, but we don’t want to use the sticker ones. Although this is not required we encourage you to get your crafty side going and make yourself a name tag that you can continue to use at WCMNCN meetings & events.
Let me know if you have any comments/concerns/ideas about our up and coming, very exciting waste meeting!
See you on the 21st!