Issue - meetings

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the Joint Waste Disposal Board held on the 8 April 2016.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Joint Waste Disposal Board held on the 8 April 2016 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

Arising on the minutes it was noted:

Minute 21 – There had been no progress with arranging a date to meet with DEFRA

Minute 38 – The Board will be visiting the Colnbrook Site nr Slough in September. It was requested that the visit coincided with the next Board meeting.

Minute 38 – Progress had been made in regards to agreeing a new haulage contract. A formal update would be brought to the next board meeting.

Minute 39 – The investigation of introducing a Smartcard system would be looked at after all the September changes had been implemented and an update on progress would be brought as an item to the next board meeting.

The Board commented that the introduction of the permits had gone really well so far and that the all staff had worked very hard to introduce the scheme as seamlessly as possible.

Oliver Burt reported to the Board that he had heard DEFRA intended to release a report over the summer regarding Rory Stewart’s initiative on waste collection systems. It was a possibility that the report would recommend that Councils adopt one of three proposed collection formats for their household waste collections.  Whilst this was a potential issue for the re3 councils in their capacity of collection authorities, the implications would also be of concern to the Board as it might have to alter the existing disposal arrangements in order to facilitate change.  Any developments would be reported to the next meeting.