By SALINA POST
The City of Salina's Zero Waste Initiative and Waste Sort Project are among the items on the Salina City Commission agenda for Monday.
About the meeting
Study sessions and city commission meetings will take place in–person in room 107 of the City-County Building, 300 West Ash Street, and via Zoom until further notice. Meetings also can be viewed at the City of Salina YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/cityofSalinaKansas.
To participate via Zoom, citizens will need to use the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89275984587.
The meeting also can be accessed by phone at 1-346-248-7799. Enter Meeting ID:892 7598 4587 when prompted.
If citizens wish to speak, either during the public forum or when the mayor requests public comment on an item, citizens attending via Zoom must raise their hands so that the meeting host can allow them to speak. Those who attend the in-person meeting will have the opportunity to speak at the podium.
Citizens also can send written comments or questions to city commissioners via email at [email protected].
In order for the commissioners to have an opportunity to review comments in advance of the meeting, please email your comments or questions by 5 p.m. the Sunday prior to the Monday meetings.
Study Session
Commissioners are scheduled to begin with a study session at 2:30 p.m. The topic of the study session is "Zero Waste Initiative and Waste Sort Project."
The waste sort was conducted March 21-25 and included 50 waste samples, according to information in the commission meeting packet. Thirty-seven of the samples were from residential haulers (15 from city routes and 22 from non-city haulers), while 13 were from commercial and institutional haulers.
As for the makeup of recyclables, 54 cubic yards of recyclables collected at the Salina Drive-thru Recycling Center from the first 75 customers over a three-day period were sorted.
The Waste Sort and Recyclables Composition Study was made possible by grant funding from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
To see the 46-page study session information packet, click here.
Regular meeting
The regular meeting is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Items on the agenda include the following.
●Consider approving a proposed ordinance on second reading that would vacate the twoeast-westalleys north of Ash Street and west of Chicago Street in the Elmdale Addition.
●Consider approving a proposed ordinance on second reading that would vacate a portion of the right-of-way at the southwest corner of N. Broadway Boulevard and W. North Street.
●Consider approving a proposed ordinance on first reading that would levy pecial assessments against certain lots and pieces of property to pay the cost of abatement of nuisances.
●Consider awarding a bid in the amount of $6,000 for the demolition of a Quonset storage building and authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with Excel Dirt and Excavating LLC, of Salina, upon fulfillment of all prerequisites under the bid documents.
To see the full Salina City Commission meeting packet for Monday, click here.