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Trustees consider one‑time reimbursement grants from bag‑fee fund for event waste diversion
Summary
Staff proposed a small reimbursement/grant program paid from the town's bag‑fee fund to help nonprofits and events cover composting and recycling costs; trustees asked staff to refine eligibility, keep the program short‑term and consult the town's environmental board.
Carbondale staff proposed using part of the town’s bag‑fee fund to seed a short, repay‑as‑submitted reimbursement program for local nonprofits and event organizers that pay for composting and other waste‑diversion services.
Town staffer Lauren told trustees that the bag‑fee fund showed a one‑time 2023 spike she could not fully explain and warned that current annual bag‑fee revenue is unlikely to sustain a permanent large grant program. “We just don’t anticipate that [the 2023 spike] is going to happen again,” Lauren said, and recommended structuring any reimbursement program as a limited, one‑ to three‑year…
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