The Recycling Committee provides an update to the Town Council
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Replies.Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Live reporting - Recycle committee report
Image by shersteve via FlickrImprovements in recycling town wide. Increased from 21% to 25% for the past quarter compared to last year.Discussion on recycling at the high school. The Green Team is the largest group at the high school. They are active. The grade of C is meant to reflect the overall town effort/performance against the overall town recycling goals. We need to encourage their effort.
There are no recycling bins at Beaver Street. There should be waste and recycle receptacles to separate the trash and recyclables.
Town needs to set an example and model the good recycling behavior.
Proposal to audit trash and leave a door hanger notice on the results. This as a follow up to an announcement letter to everyone letting the know what the opportunities are.
(editorial note - I should talk with them about my idea of using the folks walking around town to bend and stretch to pick up recycling. The picture included here is from one of my weekend morning walks. I posted about this back in February 2008)
Single stream possible for the future. What is it? Put everything in one container and the waste handler with updated technology can do the separation at their end.
Current trash contract good through 2010. Single Stream and other enhancements could be incorporated as part of the new contract.
Franklin's Earth Day should be the Saturday closest to the official Earth Day which is always April 22. 300 volunteers picked up 6000 pounds of recyclables on that one day.
DPW did a great job helping with Earth Day. Especially on a Saturday!
Two major issues;
- Receptacles are not readily available.
- The consciousness (about recycling) it not present in the community.
Councilor Pfeffer wants to deputize folks to start issuing the $50 fines to folks littering at the fields.
Franklin is recycling at 25% and most of our neighbor towns are at 50%.
The Recycling Committee web page on the new Town site can be found here.
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Live reporting - License transfer
G. LICENSE TRANSACTIONS –
Teppanyaki Restaurant – Change of Manager
issue with new manager has not completed the bartender training as required
motion amended to make the transfer contingent upon receipt of the training completion (scheduled for Monday 11/10/08).
approved 8-0
Teppanyaki Restaurant – Change of Manager
issue with new manager has not completed the bartender training as required
motion amended to make the transfer contingent upon receipt of the training completion (scheduled for Monday 11/10/08).
approved 8-0
Live reporting - opening items
A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – October 1, 2008, October 15, 2008
approved 8-0
B. ANNOUNCEMENTS
(will update later from recording)
C. PROCLAMATIONS/RECOGNITIONS
(none)
D. CITIZEN COMMENTS
Ken Norman raised an objection to the music being played in the background on Channel 11. He finds it difficult to try and follow what is going on with the music distracting and objectionable. Can the administrator find another alternative?
E. APPOINTMENTS
Design Review Commission
Council on Aging
(will add names from recording later)
approved 8-0
B. ANNOUNCEMENTS
(will update later from recording)
C. PROCLAMATIONS/RECOGNITIONS
(none)
D. CITIZEN COMMENTS
Ken Norman raised an objection to the music being played in the background on Channel 11. He finds it difficult to try and follow what is going on with the music distracting and objectionable. Can the administrator find another alternative?
E. APPOINTMENTS
Design Review Commission
Council on Aging
(will add names from recording later)
Live reporting - Town Council Meeting
Added to agenda: motion made and approved to organize the Council for the next year.
Feeley - Chair
Bartlett - Vice-Chair
Pfeffer - Clerk
all motions made and voted 8-0 (Vallee not attending)
Feeley - Chair
Bartlett - Vice-Chair
Pfeffer - Clerk
all motions made and voted 8-0 (Vallee not attending)
GATRA "free ride" coupons
Yes, it is true, there is a "free ride" coupon coming for the GATRA Franklin bus.
Where do you get a coupon?
If your neighbor doesn't want to use it, ask them for it?
If you can't use it, give it to some one who will use it!
That's helping someone get at least one ride free.
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Where do you get a coupon?
This Friday’s (November 7, 2008) edition of The Country Gazette will have a 2” x 2” orange coupon also known as an “Ad Note” affixed to the front page of 10,000 copies of the paper. The “Ad Note” is a “peel off” good for a FREE RIDE. The “coupon” is good immediately up to and including Saturday, December 20, 2008.
If your neighbor doesn't want to use it, ask them for it?
If you can't use it, give it to some one who will use it!
That's helping someone get at least one ride free.
In the News - 2010 Budget planing starting
GHS
FRANKLIN —
Thanks to the sour economy, Franklin is looking at a possible shortfall of several million dollars for fiscal 2010, and a subsequent "major reduction in force ... townwide," Town Administrator Jeffrey D. Nutting told the Finance Committee last night.
It is still too early to estimate how much the shortfall will be, said Nutting.
That figure, he said, depends on the result of Question 1 (to repeal the state income tax), and assuming there aren't any changes in revenue projections. According to last night's numbers, Massachusetts voters shot down the effort to repeal the income tax.
Nutting's projection was not discussed at length, as it was not an issue on last night's meeting agenda, but he mentioned it when he told the board he will ask department heads to submit budgets in early December.
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