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Del Norte Solid Waste Authority approves consent agenda, elects officers and adopts regional application resolution
Summary
The Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority approved its consent agenda, elected officers for the coming year and adopted Resolution 2025-01 authorizing submittal of a regional application. Board members also agreed to continue consideration of SB 45 to the next meeting.
The Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority approved its consent agenda, elected its officers for the coming year and unanimously adopted Resolution 2025-01 authorizing submittal of a regional application, the board said at its regular meeting.
The actions came after a brief public comment period with no speakers. The consent agenda — which included a budget transfer and payment for the annual household hazardous waste event — passed on a roll call vote with Commissioners Tompkins, Short, Greenough, Wright and Chair Dean Wilson recorded as voting yes.
Why it matters: the votes set the authority’s leadership and allow staff to pursue a regional grant application that the board determined the authority is eligible to submit.
The board followed standard procedure to elect officers for the coming year. Dean Wilson (chair) was nominated and accepted. Jason Greeno was nominated and accepted as vice chair; Dominic (last name not specified in the record) nominated him and he accepted. The board then voted to record the following officer elections: Chair Dean Wilson, Vice Chair Jason Greeno, Secretary (accepted nomination; name recorded in the meeting as Dompkins / Thompson confusion but the roll call recorded unanimous yes votes), and Treasurer Rich Taylor, who accepted the nomination. Each officer nomination was approved by recorded roll call votes with no noes or abstentions.
The board also adopted Resolution 2025-01, titled in the meeting record as “Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority authorizing submittal of a regional application for which the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority is eligible.” The motion to adopt was moved and seconded on the floor and passed by roll call: Commissioners Tompkins, Short, Wright, Greeno and Chair Wilson recorded yes votes.
On a separate procedural motion, the board agreed to continue consideration of SB 45 — a state bill discussed later in the meeting regarding attaching bottle caps to bottles — to the next meeting while staff returns with additional information from local recycling partners. That continuation was recorded by roll call with all present voting yes.
The meeting also included standard annual governance items: staff reminded board members to file Form 700 financial disclosures and to sign the authority ethics policy. City-appointed members were advised that their disclosures must be countywide because the authority has countywide jurisdiction.
Looking ahead: staff said they will return to the board next month with a status report on the Abandoned Vehicle Abatement program and with answers from Recology and local recycling operators about operational impacts of SB 45.
