The Evansville Solid Waste Management District voted by voice on a series of routine contracts, grants and administrative changes during its October meeting.

In a required annual public hearing, the board approved a resolution authorizing the district to contract with private vendors for collection, transportation and disposal of tires, electronics and household hazardous waste. Jean, a district staff member, explained the district lacks its own facility for those materials and therefore contracts with vendors for collections. The resolution passed on a voice vote after a motion and a second.

The board approved a grant agreement that will provide $85,736 to the county to fund a residential officer position to run a new work-release litter cleanup program. Jean said the grant had been discussed at previous meetings. The motion to approve was moved, seconded and carried by voice vote.

The district also approved a recurring sponsorship request from Keep Evansville Beautiful to provide trash and recycling containers for community events. Jean said the board has donated about $2,000 annually for these containers and that the money is available in the district’s budget. The sponsorship was approved by voice vote.

For administrative bookkeeping, the board approved a PERF (Public Employees’ Retirement Fund) submission-unit change requested by the city HR office so the Solid Waste District would be a separate submission unit rather than part of the city unit. Sally Williams from HR said the change is intended to simplify PERF bookkeeping. The resolution passed by voice vote.

Members approved accounts-payable vouchers that included two highlighted expenses: an ash-tree treatment invoice (Jean described it as approximately $18,000 and said she would check the exact figure) and a workers’ compensation invoice. Jean noted other invoices had been paid in October under the previous chair’s signature; the vouchers were approved by voice vote.

The board also approved a procedural change to meeting records, voting to replace verbatim monthly minutes with a concise meeting summary or memo going forward, citing that meetings are archived on Granicus and can be replayed. Members discussed required legal elements such as motions and vote outcomes being retained in the summary. Finally, the board voted to move its 2026 start time back to 8:30 a.m. The meeting adjourned after the votes.

All motions were decided by voice vote; the transcript records the chair’s call for “all those in favor? Aye” and subsequent “opposed? Motion carries,” with no roll-call tallies recorded in the meeting minutes on file.