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Home My WebLink About2003-10-14 KEB MINUTES• • • I. Keep Englewood Beautiful October 14, 2003 Englewood Community Center -Community Room CALL TO ORDER The regular meeting was called to order at 6:45 p.m. Present: Crotty, Edwards, Ferber, Howard, Kinton, Nicholas, Olson, Roth Bippus, Huffaker, Stankorb, Nabholz Absent: Staff: Anthony Fruchtl, Planner II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES August 12, 2003 September 9, 2003 Commissioners were asked to approve the minutes of 8-12-03 and 9-9-03. Minutes of 8-12-03 were amended to read: Commissioners Roth and Olson completed litter assessment. Ranking of 1 = no litter Ranking of 1.5= litter scarce but present Commissioner Edwards moved the approval and Crotty seconded. Minutes were approved as amended. Minutes of 9-9-03 Commissioner Edwards moved the approval and Olson seconded. Minutes were approved. Ill. HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE Commissioner Edwards reported that 85 people contributed on the first day and approximately 60 on the second Saturday. Total of 132 households con- tributed to the cleanup. Mr. Fruchtl clarified the count is actually 143 house- holds: 90 from Englewood, 53 from Littleton These were fewer contributions than last year . • • • Costs were higher and the co-pays did not offset much of the costs. The effort cost KEB a significant amount of its remaining operating funds for the year. Odd materials brought in by participants drove up costs. Commissioner Olson suggested providing a Fall insert in the city utility bills to alert people to the effort and to get more participants. Commissioners discussed various ways to make this effort more economically viable for the Commission. Options included: • Raise the co-pay amount from $10.00 to $20.00. • Consider inviting other small communities or Arapahoe County to par- ticipate. • Look for grant funding that may be available for environmental clean up projects. Commissioner Howard volunteered to look into available grants. IV. SOUTH PLA TIE RIVER CLEAN-UP There was a poor turnout for the cleanup and it was suggested that the limited turnout was due to limited advertising. V. LEAF AND TIRE The annual leaf and tire round up will be held on November 1 and 8, from 8 a.m. -12 p.m. Commissioners signed up for two hour shifts for November 8. Commissioner Olson chairs this event. She and Commissioner Bippus will be responsible for picking up signs and the change box from Anthony . Commissioners were urged to wear old clothes and bring gloves. VI. HOLIDAY PARADE Volunteers were solicited to help with the Englewood Holiday Parade to take place on Saturday, November 1. Commissioner Roth volunteered to organize . • • • VII. PHONE BOOK RECYCLING Phone book recycling will take place again in January. Commissioners agree that it was a good program although the summer program was somewhat problematic. Everyone agreed that we need a different system for hanging the banners and that placement of ·the dumpster was critical to the success of the project. VIII. HOLIDAY DECORATION JUDGING Holiday decorations in Englewood will be judged on December 9. Eight vol- unteers are needed for the event. Awards will be presented at the City Coun- cil meeting on December 15. IX. GOLF TOURNAMENT The committee for next year's golf tournament will be set up at the November meeting. Commissioner Edwards agreed to chair the committee. Four ( 4) volunteers are needed . The discussion centered around the fact that the most successful golf tourna- ments got a very early start in finding sponsors. X. NEXT MEETING The next scheduled meeting falls on Veterans Day. The Commission agreed to move the meeting to November 18. Eric Crotty, Recorder