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NextGen Advisory Board sets quarterly objectives, picks South Metro waste diversion for July review
Summary
The Littleton NextGen Advisory Board adopted a quarterly objectives process centered on five focus areas and selected a July presentation on South Metro waste diversion as its first topic; members agreed to prepare questions and aim to deliver three recommendations to City Council over the year.
The Littleton NextGen Advisory Board voted informally to adopt quarterly objectives and selected waste diversion as its first focused topic, the board announced during its monthly meeting.
The decision frames the board's work around five focus areas'housing, safety, economic development, infrastructure and environment'and sets a three-meeting cadence for each quarter: one meeting to learn, a second to deliberate and a third to draft a recommendation for City Council.
A board member summarized the North Star: "If we can deliver three items to City Council, then I think that's great." The board set a target to produce one deliverable in September, another by the end of the year and a third by spring 2026.
As the first assignment, the board will hear a presentation in July from staff and stakeholders about the South Metro waste diversion study that the city has been following. Board members discussed policy questions raised by the study: how much waste is compostable, whether the current free-market hauler model limits economies of scale for additional services, and what policy tools the city could employ to expand composting, recycling or bundled services.
One board member said the study's findings are actionable: "Seventy-five percent of the waste is actually compostable," the board noted (as described by a participant summarizing the waste summit findings), and that fact could shape choices about collection or composting programs. Another member encouraged the group to avoid duplicating work already done by the South Metro initiative and to seek collaborative opportunities with existing study outputs.
Members discussed possible outputs: a comment letter to the study group, written recommendations to City Council, or a presentation to City Council. The board agreed to do homework between meetings, review materials posted by South Metro, and prepare questions for the July presentation. Staff said the presenter's materials might be shared a few days ahead of the July meeting.
The board also discussed how to scope future quarters: housing and economic development were mentioned as topics that could be addressed later in the year, while members warned about the potential for polarization and the need to pick focused, achievable scopes rather than attempting to solve large systemic issues in a single quarter.
No formal motions or votes were recorded on policy changes at the meeting; the action recorded is the board's plan to receive the July waste-diversion presentation and to prepare follow-up work under the new quarterly objectives process.
