Thursday, December 18, 2014

Minutes of the ISD Outreach Committee Meeting October 9, 2014


MINUTES
 
FOR THE PUBLIC OUTREACH COMMITTEE MEETING
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
IRONHOUSE SANITARY DISTRICT
 
 
DATE:          Thursday, October 9, 2014
 
TIME:           9:00 a.m.
 
PLACE:        Ironhouse Sanitary District Office
                    450 Walnut Meadows Drive
                    Oakley, California  94561
 
 
 
 A.      Public Comments


 
 B.      Planning of Future and Ongoing District Public Outreach Efforts
 
1.  Salt Campaign
     Committee spoke more on the salt campaign and the upcoming no salt water softener regulations and policies. Talked about state regulation and wait for water board to give approval of needed for regulations. Talked about newsletters and information that will go out to the public about regulations.
 
2.  Saturday holiday grease days
     Committee discussed only opening one Saturday this holiday season. Decided that the Saturday after Thanksgiving opening was the best bet this year. Time change for opening from 10 am to 2 pm to 9 am to 1 pm. Making a new banner. Have staff place fliers on doors in neighborhoods with grease issues. List regular openings grease building openings as well as the Saturday opening.
 
3. Recycled water campaign
     Talked about September workshop and information about what was discussed at the workshop and future ideas for promotions on the topic.
 
4. Winter Newsletter ideas
     Moved date of newsletter release up so that it could be in the mail before Thanksgiving and remind people to save their holiday grease and bring it to ISD for recycling.
 
     Front page stories include Salt policy change and grease day.
     Bio-solids story based on talk with Gregg Kester
     Maintenance 101 tree root story
     Staff profile
     Story on Dr. Oz and wipes
 
     The committee likes the heavy paper that was used by accident in the Summer newsletter and would like to use that paper in the newsletters if possible. Also because that paper is recycled paper wants to add that on newsletter.
 
5.  Distinction Award Preparation
     Short discussion on Distinction award.
 
6. Review of Heart of Oakley Festival
     Discussed the campaigns used at the Heart of Oakley Festival including salt campaign, grease campaign and wipes campaign. Learned from public that Dr. Oz spoke about not flushing wipes and still have a lot of interest in the wipes we added to water at the Bethel Island 50s Bash in 2013 that have not degraded yet. The grease soap campaign is still successful with a lot of people stopping at our booth to check out the bacon soap recipe and the salt cleaning products gained some interest.
 
     Gave away a lot of bags. Almost all our pens are gone.
 
7. Bio-Solid story
     Greg Kester from CASA will be coming to speak with the committee later this month to discuss recycled uses for bio-solids and ideas for educating the public.
 
C.       Discussion on future items for Outreach Committee meetings
 
D.       Adjournment


 

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