County of Santa Clara Recycling and Waste Reduction Commission of Santa Clara County Recycling and Waste Reduction Division

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1 County of Santa Clara Recycling and Waste Reduction Commission of Santa Clara County Recycling and Waste Reduction Division 1555 Berger Drive, Suite 300 San Jose, California (408) FAX (408) TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES January 12, 2017 VOTING MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE ACTERRA CALIFORNIA PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL CITY OF CUPERTINO CITY OF GILROY CITY OF LOS ALTOS CITY OF MILPITAS CITY OF MORGAN HILL CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW CITY OF PALO ALTO CITY OF SAN JOSE CITY OF SANTA CLARA CITY OF SUNNYVALE CLARA MATEO COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COUNTY RECYCLING AND WASTE REDUCTION COUNTY UNINCORPORATED AREA SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SANTA CLARA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT SIERRA CLUB WEST VALLEY CITIES Maija McDonald Rob D Arcy Cheri Donnelly Tony Eulo Chris Lamm Elizabeth Koo Tony Eulo Lori Topley Matthew Krupp Alana Rivadeneyra Karin Hickey Karen Gissibl Julie Muir Stan Chau Bill Grimes Wendy Fong Bruce Olszewski Kirsten Struve Heidi Melander Colleen Costine Commissioners: James R. Griffith Chair, Linda J. LeZotte Vice-Chair, Mary-Lynne Bernald, Lan Diep, Susan M. Landry, Teresa O'Neill, Pat Showalter, Rod Sinks, Cat Tucker, Mike Wasserman

2 Technical Advisory Committee Meeting, January 12, 2017 Page 2 VOTING MEMBERS NOT IN ATTENDANCE CLEAN WATER FUND SILICON VALLEY LEADERSHIP GROUP TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE Clifton Chew Tammy Green Alyssa Rice-Wilson Lisa Rose Cole Smith Dave Staub Mark Vanni Alex Wykoff San Jose Conservation Corps UCCE City of Santa Clara City of San Jose City of Cupertino 1. Call to Order Lori Topley, Chair, called the meeting to order at 1:31 p.m. A quorum of 20 was present. Those present introduced themselves. 2. Approval of Minutes Bruce Olszewski made a motion to approve the corrected minutes for December 8, 2016 minutes. The motion was seconded by Tony Eulo and all present voted to approve the minutes. Those not present at the December 8, 2016 TAC meeting abstained. 3. Public Presentations There were no public presentations. 4. CEP Presentation Cole Smith provided a presentation on the Composting Education Program. A question was asked about community gardens and taking food waste. At this time, the program cannot handle food waste and currently do not have the personnel to manage food composting. The SRR Subcommittee will examine CEP and make recommendation on its direction and extending the current contract.

3 Technical Advisory Committee Meeting, January 12, 2017 Page 3 5. CalGreen Requirement Michael Gross was not present. A question was raised about how cities comply with CalGreen requirements. Many jurisdictions have this responsibility within their development section/ planning department. Palo Alto and Santa Clara use Green Halo and Sunnyvale is considering them while Mountain View allows use of Green Halo. The use of Green Halo or an equivalent system also adds the benefit of being able to identify illegal haulers on projects. 6. RWRC Update Lisa Rose said the year started with four vacancies: 1) one seat was filled by San Jose Councilmember Lan Diep; there are two Members-at-large; and 1 West Valley Cities seats to be filled. The Cities Association Selection Committee meets tonight and will aim to fill those seats. If you know anyone who is willing to serve, please let them know. The next meeting is February 22 and the IC budget is on the agenda. There may also be a presentation on Composting Education Program; Tony suggests mirroring the TAC annual presentations with the RWRC schedule so that presenters only have to prepare info once annually. 7. Division Manager s Report and Updates on Countywide Programs A. Disposal Reporting System report in packet. On-line has only one date since data entry and payment are considered one transaction and done jointly now. B. Other No report 8. Program Updates A. Green Business Report in packet. The goal for the year is 80 total certifications (recertification/new). Staff will revise the monthly report to be more user friendly. B. Composting Education Cole Smith provided a presentation earlier in the meeting. C. Recycling Hotline No report. 9. Subcommittee Reports and Updates on Countywide Programs A. Eco-Gardens Karin Hickey said they are still working on the poster because there was a problem with the font which has not been resolved. Posters will be brought to TAC once completed and the image will also be on the seed packets. The next meeting is Friday, January 20 at 1555 Berger Drive. B. Enforcement Stan Chau said they did not meet but did get an requesting assistance with dumpsters at restaurants. Specifically to keep the lids down and see if the restaurant group can assist with enforcement. C. Household Hazardous Waste Alex Wykoff said they met on Tuesday. Carolina Camarena provided a list of options for the outreach plan. $150K was allocated for FY 17-18: of that $3,500 will be used for in-stadium events; $40K set up ($20K per team Earthquake and Sharks) for photoshoot and player imaging; $107K for ad buys bus tails, transit shelters. Also looking at shopping cart ads at Safeway stores. They will finalize list and work on MOA next month. Alex pointed out that due to timing of the hockey/soccer seasons and rolling out the campaigns during the season, San Jose is using a portion of their contribution to begin work now and the cities funding if approved, will go directly to media buys.

4 Technical Advisory Committee Meeting, January 12, 2017 Page 4 D. Legislation Nothing happening yet. Jurisdictions noted the letter from CalRecycle regarding AB1826/AB341 was received. It was noted that through the Governor s budget plan, CalRecycle submitted a modernization of the Beverage Container Recycling Plan which will change ten items. Julie Muir will send the item to Clifton Chew to forward to the distribution list. Matthew Krupp had an update on the waste water side where Silicon Valley Clean Water was working on a pilot program for food waste in a digester. BAAQMD said they are not permitted for that type of operation and killed the program. E. Public Education Karin Hickey said there was a meeting on December 20 th. The Save the Food Campaign invoice has been paid and the material has been printed. Everyone should keep their eyes open for the ads and please note when and where you saw them (a picture if possible) [send to Lisa Rose]. A request was made for a batch of social media items for the Save the Food Campaign be sent out through the TAC distribution list. There was a short presentation from Bay Area Parent about advertising opportunities. BayROC has been restructured and things are still up in the air. TAC funded them $5K and they are targeting food waste and wanted more actionable advertising. The group talked about Santa Clara Cares campaign and also wanted to know if they should bring something back to TAC once a plan is developed for use of the $150k of FY public education funding. TAC directed the Pub Ed subcommittee to put together a proposal and bring it back to TAC for approval. F. Source Reduction and Recycling Cheri Donnelly said they did not meet but the next meeting will be at Vector Control Training Room on January 26 to discuss the Composting Education Program (CEP) and Food Rescue Quarterly report. 10. IC Update Lori Topley said the IC reviewed the County s response to the Maze audit. Bill Grimes walked through the items the audit identified. Interest will now be accrued to the budget. The report was accepted and closes the audit for this year. 11. Items for Future Agenda/ Guest Speakers Heidi Sanborn will talk about the grant on refillable gas canisters. Recycling Markets for February meeting. Maija McDonald said RAFT and San Jose Conservation Corp were interested in having TAC tour their facilities and both have space to hold the TAC meeting after the tour. March/April was suggested for RAFT and summer for San Jose Conservation Corp. 12. Informational Updates and Announcements Bill Grimes had three items: 1) Sylvia Gallegos convened a meeting for a Board referral from Supervisor Cortese to look at the illegal disposal issues in unincorporated areas of county. The overall numbers from the Roads Department, Planning Office, and other departments indicated that the issue is a bigger burden on urban areas than unincorporated areas. The unincorporated franchise agreements provide two neighborhood clean-ups per year. County staff is responding to the Board referral and getting information; 2) the fourteenth pharmacy bin has been placed and has had two collection events.

5 Technical Advisory Committee Meeting, January 12, 2017 Page 5 At this time, the County is no longer putting out new bins because of the potential overlap with medplan implementation; 3) this is Tammy Green s last TAC meeting for a while and Bill wanted to acknowledge her efforts. Alana Rivadeneyra had two items: 1) introduce Mark Vanni, assigned attorney to San Jose Environmental Services Department; and 2) San Jose received a Keep America Beautiful Award. Julie Muir had four items: 1) Stanford medical school building will compost paper towels in their medical buildings; 2) athletics department has 10 new compost collection points to source separate their materials; 3) composting at all Maples Center events and games; and 4) game day challenge in basketball and football report out on one game: in 2015 Stanford came in last; this year they didn t see massive improvement 7 th place out of 9, but 2 nd in ghg reductions. Bruce Olszewski had three items: 1) he has students enrolled for the spring to run the hotline; 2) new manager Carlina who is a junior; and 3) found in the Mercury News an article in which Germany recycles 65% of its waste which includes thermal recycling which is incineration. Lori Topley said City Council met and decided to not move forward with every other week garbage collection but will move forward with residential food scraps program in July (will have yard trimming service weekly from every other week). Looked at split cart but not willing to make change in middle of contract, could pursue in the future with new contract. 13. Adjournment in Memory of Kevin Chiapello The meeting adjourned at 3:06 p.m. THE NEXT SCHEDULED TAC MEETING: February 9, 2017