This page lists meetings where a speaker used any of these words: garbage, trash, recycling, sanitation, compost, leaf pickup. Search this topic to filter by body or year, or search the exact word only.
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- 35:45I'm not proud of um so we're still mowing um doing some grad installations most of the maintenance over [laughter] still hot patching drag boxing county roads um again we had some storm damage though this was one of the better months uh we completed two miles of hot and place recycling, paving and shoulder backup on County Route 16 in town of Clark. Uh we completed 3.3 miles …
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20261 passage12:12and unfortunately we did find well a school district did find uh the white rabbits or cans like in the garbage can,
- 1:21:50Um I was also really curious because I've looked at the plans many many times and I've never seen where is sanitation going to be picked up. Is that another thing that's going to happen through that port or portal that goes into the parking area? Um and if it is then is there enough space? I know that they're talking about the fire trucks being able to turn around the radius, …
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- 2026-02-18County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || February 18, 202625 passages longer discussion58:59… help them increase composting um which would include the animalities, food scraps, and crop residues. um and help with the application of compost. So, more to come for that in spring of 2026. So, I'm going to kind of keep an eye on that. Um compost, we're in an area where we can do a lot of backyard composting and we should kind of promote that a little bit, but I'm glad to …
- 2026-01-21County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || January 21, 202621 passages longer discussion55:02on top of taking out the trash and the recycling. So, there's a couple of bigger things on here that I've been kind of like will kick the can down the road. And one of them is the agricultural plastics recycling. Uh, this is something that's been on our plan. It was on the plan last time and it is also on this 10-year plan. Um, we don't really have um any local recyclers. Um, …
- 1:09:03DPW thing so is there some reason why you cannot secure a garbage can on First Street um a bit like facing First Street not on work not facing one but facing First Street so the deli on the corner of first and Warren has a garbage can is there some is there some practical reason why you cannot put a garbage can there well we don't I don't care who's on the corner of first and …
- 2024-12-12Conservation AdvisoryConservation Advisory Council 12/12/202410 passages longer discussion36:34and then uh they have been set up by their their gpw station where people come and they put in their compost and they take that that's taken away to some composting Li iner pack so it's a big ordeal yeah and the question is do they have a system do they have a regular garbage service in place that's part of the tax base as opposed to buying $1 blue bags you know we we don't …
- 1:00:21in through the stack back door this is where the trash would come out of the building they're correct this would be the trash area over here in the back this um hatched area with the tone on it this would be exterior so it would be possible for uh deliveries coming in or other items coming out that could come from this Alleyway through here to this back door so that is another …
- 2026-05-20County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || May 20, 20268 passages longer discussion53:16Uh we released our household hazardous waste RFP response will be due February 5th. Garbage audits I talked about last month took place in April and early May. Um Actually overall it looks pretty good. There was mostly county bags in the garbage which is what we want to see.
- 2022-02-01Conservation AdvisoryConservation Advisory Council - February 1, 20228 passages longer discussion1:13:21I mean one of the most amazing uh facts that come across in this uh in this piece that we're creating is the is the idea that uh that of all these supposedly uh recyclable plastic uh that goes into the into the recycling stream only eight percent of it ever actually gets recycled and the rest of it winds up uh in a developing country or in a landfill so so the idea of …
- 33:59not is not going to be a part of of of the operations trash um is going in that case trash will be minimal and so it will be handled here in the front of the building where the there are two currently two trash receptacles that should be able to handle that light load of um of trash there's no deliveries of Linens and I thought that did have in that common area that you would …
- 2026-03-18County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || March 18, 20267 passages longer discussion58:27… that they are coming to Chadam. I can say that my Chadam recycling is numbers are up. Um so it seems to be that they're bringing their garbage to us and now also the recycling. Um the residents that our office spoke uh with from the Gallatin area um and so that's not all of them, but the ones that called our department are utilizing the COP station
- 38:33Whatever you throw out in the blue bags we put in the garbage truck, we haul that to the county transfer station over on Newman Road. They charge us uh in real money for everything that goes over the scale. We get charged $128 a ton per uh for garbage and we get charged $90 a ton for recycling. So we do have a revenue source for the garbage. We do not have a revenue source for …
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- 1:41:45… word, is the forthcoming restaurant and market that has been approved. We're going to offer fresh produce, some grapple meal options, and compost needed service. So Ted is going to go into these in more specifics, but this is just a quick glance at the site plan. So the Market
- 35:45I'm not proud of um so we're still mowing um doing some grad installations most of the maintenance over [laughter] still hot patching drag boxing county roads um again we had some storm damage though this was one of the better months uh we completed two miles of hot and place recycling, paving and shoulder backup on County Route 16 in town of Clark. Uh we completed 3.3 miles …
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20261 passage12:12and unfortunately we did find well a school district did find uh the white rabbits or cans like in the garbage can,
- 1:21:50Um I was also really curious because I've looked at the plans many many times and I've never seen where is sanitation going to be picked up. Is that another thing that's going to happen through that port or portal that goes into the parking area? Um and if it is then is there enough space? I know that they're talking about the fire trucks being able to turn around the radius, …
- 12:15Well, just an update on the disposition of a attached to uh remove the property that's on our 238. DPW, I got some no trespassing signs and DPW did put them up. Uh at the time, there uh it's uh two two vehicles, a parked car, and a bunch of garbage on it. I did go to see the signs signage were there and I did have a conversation with the uh owner of the property.
- 2:21Oh, sorry. So, we thought that that was there's a microphone here. So, we thought that that was downstairs. When I talked to Rob Perry, that's actually the fee that the uh garbage collection companies, eight of them pay per year to come into Hudson.
- 11:38… and there'll also be a new bathroom, a huge upgrade. Right now, campers use a port of potting and have no running water. From a health and sanitation perspective, this isn't good. The new structure adds an outdoor sink for handwashing, a water fountain, and a bottle cover. The bathroom was a feature New York State was particularly glad to see and an important factor in winning …
- 2026-08-19County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || August 19, 20266 passages longer discussion1:17:22… steady and you can see that all with our monthly reports just some great numbers actually. So overall we're up 17% from 2025. Um the garbage which is garbage
- 2026-08-18County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || August 18, 20261 passage1:11:20… equipment that we were issued by New York State last year was used sandbag sandbag filler and thousand sandbags went to Germantown. We had trash pumps. One of them went to Hudson Correctional facility. Their power building where they have all their electricity going to um we have some smaller ones we have
- 52:31… lot. So, why can't if we have something to get rid of, why can't if we're moving it out to there, why can't we do that? because it's garbage and garbage attracts uh oings and other things and so that would not be good beneficial for the property.
- 23:38uh sidewalk replacement coin dispenser. Oh, just you know because I know everybody loves updates on the world famous garbage bag vending machine, but the uh coin dispenser busted. It was original from 2016 and now we have a new one in there. This one has actually two slots for dollar coins. So hopefully it won't run out of 75 to 80% of the sales are card now. Anybody uh you …
- 28:09Yeah. like like a precursor and then recycling. I know you had spoken to about recycling. So where are we recycling? Um I think it was like the last time I read in the emails but it was um getting a city city council basically I think he executive order
- 2026-06-17County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || June 17, 20263 passages longer discussion58:44for the recycling topload building and um we lumped in um anything recycling that we purchased around that time. So equipment um uh 20 orders that we use for recycling. Um
- 2026-06-10County Board of SupervisorsWellness Hub Presentation || Full Board Meeting || June 10, 20261 passage34:51what we're doing we do the mascot permits we have the security we have the trash we have the and we're used to getting these funders and everything. So, the county agreed. Thank you, Chairman Rail. And thank you all of you for that. Christine Gman is the president of our little humble group. There's like how many are there? 10 of us. All volunteers, but um just want to say …
- 19:12Um the crew will be at safety training this week. So that's two days. So that'll shut down. You won't see a whole lot of uh work done on Tuesday and Wednesday because half the crew will be in uh Chadam for one day while the other half does the essentials like garbage and whatever and flip-flops the next day.
- 21:06uh the garbage.
- 8:52Yeah. So, and Homemstead deliver gave us free compost to incorporate into the planting. So, um so yeah, we're just trying to work that out. So, once we have like an idea if we'll just pass if if it doesn't cost anything. Um, do you think it could come out of the CIC budget?
- 51:10Um for up to 60 days a year. Um, you should inform the people who are renting your home of what the rules are within the city, what the what day it is that you put the garbage out, what the rules are, etc. That's sort of just basic stuff that you do when you are engaging with a client to use a space in Hudson. You inform them of the rules.
- 57:45They are not, this is not new to them. are. And if they have reason to believe their space is going to be having an "Okay, here are the things that you need let's say, you have an Airbnb whoever is going to be renting your put the garbage out on Monday morning or the owner who is renting the facility what the local ordinances are.
- 2026-05-20County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || May 20, 20268 passages longer discussion53:16Uh we released our household hazardous waste RFP response will be due February 5th. Garbage audits I talked about last month took place in April and early May. Um Actually overall it looks pretty good. There was mostly county bags in the garbage which is what we want to see.
- 1:17:17They haven't had a service there. There's four abandoned vehicles in the back. There's an active dumpster behind a vacant building that is emptied every week by a garbage company and it's overflowing. This is a huge problem that is being
- 2026-05-05HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 5/5/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:36:02Um I was just going to say that uh with the cuts to aids, we spent like a week in the cafeteria doing a composting demo and I just hope that we can like rely on parents. Like other schools do it. I think there could be an opportunity to get more parents into the school and connected into the community. Um I think kids behave better when they're there's other parents around.
- 41:38… looked over the edge and saw where someone had pulled the tree and just thrown it over the edge and it looked pretty dead down with other trash.
- 1:04… of them, three of them were uh one was a burn barrel down the 200 block Columbia Street with construction waste in it and a couple were uh trash and like uh brush fires. the one chimney fire. We have five hazardous situations which includes fuel spills, power lines down and car accidents. We had 17 no emergencies which we either requested, mutual aid and cancelled or alarms …
- 23:10… so there there were also concerns about a property that is adjacent to the reservoir which is uh in our code there cannot be uh debris or garbage within x number of feet of the reservoir and this is not in compliance and my response on this came up while Rob was away actually um that say code enforcement and technology needs to address that because we don't have any authority …
- 10:00So, um And, you know, so what happens is our staff comes in, whoever is operating the sweeper is a part of another crew. They may be part of the garbage crew, they may be part of a parks crew, or a street maintenance crew. So, whatever it is, we need a minimum of X people. This guy is X minus one.
- 22:21… way too much of the sidewalk, but it there it is. And they they do not do enough um maintenance of it in terms of uh particularly cleaning garbage out of there and pulling weeds when weeds need to be pulled.
- 2026-03-23County Economic Development CommitteeEconomic Development Meeting || March 23, 20261 passage6:52Representative Kausky have helped us identify alternatives, and there's a potential There's a county parcel near our property that might be suitable, but would you know, the county would have to be interested in allowing us to utilize that land. And maybe Ryan can Yeah, Ryan Ryan and Mike are both here to answer more better describe the situation. Yeah, so currently, there is …
- 2026-03-18County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || March 18, 20267 passages longer discussion58:27… that they are coming to Chadam. I can say that my Chadam recycling is numbers are up. Um so it seems to be that they're bringing their garbage to us and now also the recycling. Um the residents that our office spoke uh with from the Gallatin area um and so that's not all of them, but the ones that called our department are utilizing the COP station
- 2026-02-24HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 2/24/2026 Board of Education Meeting3 passages longer discussion1:28:54Our contract rules there are looks like it's getting ready to stay the same hopefully. Um that's like our garbage dispens our garbage disposal elevators contracts boiler contracts things that are are in line for you know a constant. We try to keep them for multiple years so we can keep that number consistent. Uh materials and supplies are really our preventative maintenance. …
- 51:36We pay a light bill, a water bill, sewer, garbage. Our building is not 100% occupied. We do we operate as if we are
- 2026-02-18County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || February 18, 202625 passages longer discussion58:59… help them increase composting um which would include the animalities, food scraps, and crop residues. um and help with the application of compost. So, more to come for that in spring of 2026. So, I'm going to kind of keep an eye on that. Um compost, we're in an area where we can do a lot of backyard composting and we should kind of promote that a little bit, but I'm glad to …
- 15:17everything underneath it is garbage.
- 23:44uh we'll also um be looking to fill our part-time laborer position. So that person uh really supports uh Vsham as uh Vsham's our cleaner and the overall just dayto-day and maintenance of K. Um so that includes you know uh the landscaping, the garbage removal, uh things of that nature. And so we are looking to uh certainly fill that position um as soon as possible.
- 18:27Um, I as well I've done compost outreach and education uh at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Um, working with community community gardeners. So, green space uh advocacy is something that I care deeply about and um was trying to bring some of that into the into Hudson. I was on the comprehensive planning committee um that last year and thinking about connectivity of different green …
- 2026-01-21County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || January 21, 202621 passages longer discussion55:02on top of taking out the trash and the recycling. So, there's a couple of bigger things on here that I've been kind of like will kick the can down the road. And one of them is the agricultural plastics recycling. Uh, this is something that's been on our plan. It was on the plan last time and it is also on this 10-year plan. Um, we don't really have um any local recyclers. Um, …
- 59:48So where I do a lot of the policy design research looking into things like EVU chargers and the EV you know adopting EVs also you guys mentioned community solar that's one of the other things anti- idling technology um so lots of things to as uh we're doing this policy design research um and previously I worked uh in California state government for over five years I was at the …
- 9:07We are hoping for a positive conclusion in the near future. And I'd like to thank Supervisor Brenda Adams, Treasurer PJ Peeler, and Controller Jim Brag for their ongoing efforts in this project. In 2025, the highway department is has completed culvert replacement, shoulder reconstruction, and pavement recycling and a new pavement along 11.2 miles of county roadway, county …
- 55:14President Trump. Hi. Uh, next resolution supports the um state strong packaging reduction and recycling enbur is getting addressed. uh United States is one of the top 10 uh waste production in the world and uh we uh only 78% of our uh plastic gets um in most the recycling and uh compared with Sweden which is number one uh only has 1% is really uh outrageous and uh I think …
- 30:36… So now we have this area will now be cityowned. There's an existing curb cut here. Cars will come in. going to pull out if they have to or garbage trucks, whatever it may be. There's a set of ballards here. This is still now the main entrance and almost like a little pocket park.