Waste District Collects 7,803 Pairs Of Shoes
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
The Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District collected 7,803 pair of shoes during their shoe collection drive this and last month.
Three tons-worth of the shoes are sellable, according to a report by the district's educator Bendy Mann to the district's board Tuesday.
The Knights of Columbus were the largest contributors of shoes, with a total of 2,241 pounds, and Mentone Elementary was the largest school to contribute, with a total of 1,839 pounds. The school will receive a chair in the shape of a hand made of recycled material again this year.
The district attempts to sell the shoes for 25 cents per pound (depending on the market price of used shoes) and returns the proceeds to each donating organization or school.
Executive director Sue Studebaker said other shoes have come in past the program date and asked the board what to do with the funds from selling them. She was advised to use the money for advertising and promoting purposes.
Six large containers of shoes came from Fulton County.
The 2003 shoe collection was short of last year's total of more than 11,000 pounds, but Studebaker said it is still a good program.
In her director's report, Studebaker reported that aluminum cans were stolen from the Milford recycling station the first week of December.
In the middle of the month, the Syracuse station had all of its aluminum removed. As Studebaker made out a police report, she heard a local state police officer was delivering his recyclables in his personal car at the time of the theft. When the officer returned in an official car, the four aluminum-lifting youths were gone. The officer traced the boys to Ligonier and will file charges.
The board discussed a proposed amendment to the host agreement with Ameri-Waste concerning an increase in tonnage fees delivered to the landfill.
The draft shows a 50-cent increase in out-of-county and out-of-state rates per ton for the first 10,000 pounds of waste per month, which would mean about $18,000 for the district per year. Out-of-county fees would be $1.80 per ton, and out-of-state fees would be $2 per ton.
A $15,000 household hazardous waste grant also is included in the document.
Studebaker asked the board to consider a three- to five-year "review" date be included in the contract, which was approved.
District attorney Mike Armey suggested language that the district and county serve as a reference for the company to potential new customers be deleted.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is expected to approve Ameri-Waste's landfill expansion permit as early as February. At that time, the host agreement also would be in effect.
District controller and county auditor Sue Ann Mitchell presented the December appropriations report showing zero balances in many accounts.
"We spent every licking cent we have and then some," she said of the report.
District president Brad Jackson said it was good budgeting.
In other business, the board:
• Heard the Citizens' Advisory Committee is planning an Environmental Day in 2005 and the CAC will meet every other month beginning in February 2004.
• Heard from CAC member Bob Knudson, who thanked the board and Studebaker for "a fabulous job again this year."
• Heard 6 pallets of electronics were shipped out Dec. 10.
CAC members are: Al Blakely, Joy Fair, Darci Zolman, Kirk Swaidner, Bob Knudson, Ron Shelton, Sean Ambrose, Edna Gamble, Brian Redshaw, Larry Martindale, Jim Stafford, Debbie Martin, Norm Vanlaningham, Tony Schroeder and Mike Lewis.
Knudson, Fair, Redshaw and Zolman attended Tuesday's meeting.
Solid Waste Management District board members include George Clemens, Brad Jackson and John Kinsey. Ron Truex, David Delp and Ernie Wiggins were absent.
The next district meeting will be Jan. 13 at 1 p.m. [[In-content Ad]]
The Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District collected 7,803 pair of shoes during their shoe collection drive this and last month.
Three tons-worth of the shoes are sellable, according to a report by the district's educator Bendy Mann to the district's board Tuesday.
The Knights of Columbus were the largest contributors of shoes, with a total of 2,241 pounds, and Mentone Elementary was the largest school to contribute, with a total of 1,839 pounds. The school will receive a chair in the shape of a hand made of recycled material again this year.
The district attempts to sell the shoes for 25 cents per pound (depending on the market price of used shoes) and returns the proceeds to each donating organization or school.
Executive director Sue Studebaker said other shoes have come in past the program date and asked the board what to do with the funds from selling them. She was advised to use the money for advertising and promoting purposes.
Six large containers of shoes came from Fulton County.
The 2003 shoe collection was short of last year's total of more than 11,000 pounds, but Studebaker said it is still a good program.
In her director's report, Studebaker reported that aluminum cans were stolen from the Milford recycling station the first week of December.
In the middle of the month, the Syracuse station had all of its aluminum removed. As Studebaker made out a police report, she heard a local state police officer was delivering his recyclables in his personal car at the time of the theft. When the officer returned in an official car, the four aluminum-lifting youths were gone. The officer traced the boys to Ligonier and will file charges.
The board discussed a proposed amendment to the host agreement with Ameri-Waste concerning an increase in tonnage fees delivered to the landfill.
The draft shows a 50-cent increase in out-of-county and out-of-state rates per ton for the first 10,000 pounds of waste per month, which would mean about $18,000 for the district per year. Out-of-county fees would be $1.80 per ton, and out-of-state fees would be $2 per ton.
A $15,000 household hazardous waste grant also is included in the document.
Studebaker asked the board to consider a three- to five-year "review" date be included in the contract, which was approved.
District attorney Mike Armey suggested language that the district and county serve as a reference for the company to potential new customers be deleted.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is expected to approve Ameri-Waste's landfill expansion permit as early as February. At that time, the host agreement also would be in effect.
District controller and county auditor Sue Ann Mitchell presented the December appropriations report showing zero balances in many accounts.
"We spent every licking cent we have and then some," she said of the report.
District president Brad Jackson said it was good budgeting.
In other business, the board:
• Heard the Citizens' Advisory Committee is planning an Environmental Day in 2005 and the CAC will meet every other month beginning in February 2004.
• Heard from CAC member Bob Knudson, who thanked the board and Studebaker for "a fabulous job again this year."
• Heard 6 pallets of electronics were shipped out Dec. 10.
CAC members are: Al Blakely, Joy Fair, Darci Zolman, Kirk Swaidner, Bob Knudson, Ron Shelton, Sean Ambrose, Edna Gamble, Brian Redshaw, Larry Martindale, Jim Stafford, Debbie Martin, Norm Vanlaningham, Tony Schroeder and Mike Lewis.
Knudson, Fair, Redshaw and Zolman attended Tuesday's meeting.
Solid Waste Management District board members include George Clemens, Brad Jackson and John Kinsey. Ron Truex, David Delp and Ernie Wiggins were absent.
The next district meeting will be Jan. 13 at 1 p.m. [[In-content Ad]]