Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Environment Sustainability topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
ISD 622 discusses $103,000 waste-reduction and recycling grant
Summary
Board members asked staff about a roughly $103,000 school waste-reduction and recycling grant, including container standardization, milk-carton recycling and organics collection; the transcript records discussion but not a final vote on the pulled consent item.
A district staff member described plans for a roughly $103,000 waste reduction and recycling grant during the North St. Paul-Maplewood Oakdale ISD 622 School Board’s June 24 meeting after a board member pulled the item from the consent agenda for discussion.
The staff member told Chair Jerry Yang and the board that the grant "very much ties into a lot of the green energy work that the district has been involved in." The staff member said planned activities include standardizing trash and recycling containers across the district, implementing milk-carton recycling for partially consumed cartons, conducting volume analysis of trash pickups to "rightsize" operations, and establishing logistics to collect and dispose of organic food waste.
A board member had asked specifically about the waste-reduction grant, which the agenda lists at approximately $103,000. The item had been removed from the consolidated consent motion for separate discussion; the transcript records the exchange but does not record a subsequent vote or final action on the grant in the provided segment.
The board’s consent agenda motion for the remaining (non‑pulled) consent items was moved by Anderson and seconded by Martins and was approved by voice vote. The transcript does not show whether the pulled grant award was later returned to the consent agenda or approved at a subsequent point in the meeting.
