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SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION MINUTES OF THURSDAY,JULY 11,1996 COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Vice Chairperson Walsh, Commissioners Anthony, Capone, Harrison, Moran, and Newell COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Chairperson Lloyd GUESTS PRESENT: Finance Director Brian Ponty, Billing and Collection Manager Chris Holmquist, Debbie Sargent, Gino Gasparini STAFF PRESENT: Superintendent Corinne Centeno, Manager Linda Griffith, and Secretary Denise Monroe The regular meeting of the Senior Affairs Commission was called to order by Vice Chairperson Leo Walsh at 3:07pm. at the Senior Center Annex, 711 Nevada Street, Redwood City, California. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The minutes of the June meeting were approved as mailed. CORRESPONDENCE There was no correspondence. ITEM 1- BFI YARD WASTE PROGRAM PRESENTATION Billing and Collection Manager Chris Holmquist of the Finance Department gave some history of State Legislative Bill AB939 which deals with the reduction of solid waste in the landfills. The bill requires that each city must have a 50% reduction of solid waste landfill by the year 2000. Redwood City is currently at 28%. BFI has put forth a proposal of a yard waste program to help reach this goal. The proposal includes eliminating the end of the month pick-up by BFI, implementation of green waste pick-ups every two weeks (Environmental Day), and curbside recycling pick-ups every two weeks which will accommodate more items. The advantages to this program are maximum route efficiency, residents pay for the service they use, and there will be minimum rate impacts to residents, especially seniors. The disadvantages will be that it will create inconvenience in schedules and increases to customers that create more waste. Full service pick-ups for 20 gallon containers, including the end of the month green waste pick-up, will remain at $5.87 per month. Ms. Holmquist said that fixed income people would benefit from this program. The Spring and Fall clean-ups will