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MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE
RESOURCE CONSERVATION COMMISSION
March 12, 2012
City of Chula Vista, Executive Conference Room 103
276 Fourth Avenue
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER: By Vice Chair Rahimzadeh at 4:00 p.m.
ROLL CALL:
MEMBERS PRESENT: Commissioners Coleman, Kappes, Rahimzadeh, Romo,
and Vargas
MEMBERS ABSENT: Commissioners Davis
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MOTION TO EXCUSE: Commissioner Davis, motion to excuse from the February
13th meeting approved
STAFF PRESENT: Environmental Resource Manager Reed, Environmental
Services Program Manager France, and Sr. Secretary
Fields
OTHERS PRESENT: None
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The Minutes of February 13th, 2012 were approved with
the addition of Commissioner Coleman commenting on the
Wildlife Advisory Group's tour of the decommissioned
South Bay Power Plant site under Commissioner
Comments.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS: None
ACTION ITEMS:
1. Election of a new RCC Chair
Action: The board elected Commissioner Rahimzadeh Chair to replace vacating Chair
Stillman. Commissioner Colman was elected Vice Chair to replace
Commissioner Rahimzadeh.
INFORMATION ITEMS
1. Earth Month Events & Proclamation
Environmental Services Program Manager France and Environmental Resource
Manager Reed discussed the upcoming events happening around Earth Month.
Manager Reed stated that the Go Green 8~ Clean Family Day event occurring on April
28tH which will be in conjunction with the YMCA, would be the biggest of the City's
events. Manager France added that this event would include an electronics drop off
event and that computers would be rebuilt and given to low income families. Reed
stated that they would be going to Council on April 24th for the 2012 Earth Month
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Proclamation and he suggested that the board might consider attending the meeting to
be the ones to receive the Proclamation, which would serve to spotlight their role in the
• City. The board agreed to finalize their attendance at the Council meeting at the next
RCC meeting. The group then reviewed the proclamation and suggested some minor
wording edits.
2. Trash Fees
Environmental Services Program Manager France went over details of the April 24tH
Public Hearing on Solid Waste Services Rate Adjustments. Increases are scheduled for
July 1, 2012 for commercial and industrial customers, and September 1, 2012 for
residential customers. Manager France went on to discuss several of the items and
figures listed in the Allied Waste Services agreement. Commissioner Vargas asked for
an update on the hearing in April.
3. Household Hazardous Waste RFP
Environmental Services Program Manager France briefed the board on the Request for
Proposal and went over the types of services they are contracting for.
MANAGERS COMMENTS
Environmental Services Program Manager France and Environmental Resource
Manager Reed touched briefly on some of the future agenda items.
• Environmental Services Program Manager France announced that on April 10tH, the City
of Chula Vista would be hosting a California Recycling workshop on AB341 regarding
the mandatory commercial recycling regulation for local government.
COMMISSIONER COMMENTS
Commissioner Coleman stated that at their next meeting, the Wildlife Advisory Group
would be getting a presentation from the subcommittee on the RFPs for the
Management Plan. He mentioned that there was a lot of concern that some of the
existing vegetation and trees did not fit into what the plan would be.
• Commissioner Romo asked about his previous suggestion of calculating the carbon
footprint of RCC meetings. Environmental Resource Manager Reed stated that planting
six to eight trees would offset twelve RCC meetings per year. He further stated that they
could work with the City's Parks staff on the project. Chair Rahimzadeh suggested tying
this project into the Council Earth Month Proclamation.
CHAIR COMMENTS
None
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 5:44 p.m. to a regular meeting on Monday,
April 9, 2012, at 4:00 pm in Executive Conference Room 103, Building 300, 276 Fourth Avenue,
Chula Vista, CA 91910.
Prepared by:
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Sheryl Fields
Sr. Secretary
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