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Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority approves food-rescue change order, consent agenda items
Summary
The authority unanimously approved a change order to add two community meetings on food rescue under an existing CalRecycle grant and adopted the consent agenda, which included several payments and budget transfers; the board also received operational reports from the director.
The Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority voted unanimously to approve a change order with a local food council to add two additional community meetings on food rescue and redistribution and also approved its consent agenda, the authority’s chair said.
The board’s roll call on both measures recorded votes of yes from Commissioner Tompkins, Commissioner Short and Chair Greenough. The authority did not record any no votes or abstentions on those items.
The consent agenda included approval of minutes from Tuesday, June 17; payment of a cleanup-services claim to Dave Mason; a credit-card payment to US Bancorp; and budget transfers for fiscal years 2024–25 and 2025–26. At the meeting, staff read the amounts as a payment to Dave Mason for approximately $1,059; a US Bancorp credit-card payment of about $14,333.61; a fiscal-year 2024–25 budget transfer of $12,778; and a fiscal-year 2025–26 transfer of $6,003.
The change order for the food-council meetings was presented as part of an existing grant from CalRecycle; staff said the additional meetings would be covered under that grant and would not create new cost to the authority. The board moved and seconded the item, took public comment (none), and approved the change order.
In other business, the authority’s director reported ongoing operational items: a continuing search for replacement legal counsel (staff are expanding the search beyond Humboldt County, including Sonoma and Sacramento-area firms); an ongoing transition to the county’s ERP accounting system; a scale-house power outage on June 24 tied to a failed battery-backup system and discussions with Digital Aid Services about replacements; and ongoing negotiations with Recology about changes to the recycling list, for which staff said they had not yet received a formal letter from the contractor to begin a change order.
The director also reported that the authority submitted its annual CalRecycle report that details post-closure liability calculations for the landfill and reaffirmed that, per the report, revenues to cover any future landfill liabilities are pledged to come from transfer-station revenues.
On legislation, staff said the authority’s prior support positions have been overtaken by the 2025 legislative outcomes and that only AB 23 — a bill described to the board as regulating the introduction of a plastic additive — remained as a bill the authority had supported that might reach the governor’s desk. Staff said they were not asking the board to change its position at this time.
During final comments, one commissioner asked staff to begin the process to find a replacement for his position; the commissioner said this was a request to initiate that process, not a formal resignation action recorded in the minutes.
