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Chairman's Announcements

To receive any announcements from the Chairman.

Minutes:

Community Area Manager

Richard Munro, Community Area Manager would be moving on to an internal promotion on 10th October 2011. The Chairman thanked Richard for all of his work for the Board over the past two years.

 

Youth Service

The Youth Service had a display at the back of the hall which included digital photos of recent projects, such as the course attended by young people on how to build a straw bale building.

 

Waste and Recycling

Tracy Carter, Service Director for Waste and Recycling had a display at the back of the hall detailing the changes to the waste and recycling service for the South West, in particular the implementation of an opt in free garden waste collection service. Anyone interested in registering for the service should do so by 30th September 2011. This could be done online, or by completing and returning a leaflet which was available at the meeting to take away.

 

There would be a series of road shows later in the year to provide further information on the services available.

 

Questions and comments were then taken from the floor:

 

  • Will the leaflets be distributed to parish and town councils. Answer: Leaflets called ‘Coming Soon’ were sent out to every home, however more leaflets can be made available if requested.
  • The question on the leaflet  which asks if you already have a wheeled bin, is not clear whether it is asking if you already have a green waste wheeled bin or other wheeled bins. Answer: The question is to establish if you are a household who can accommodate a wheeled bin or not. Some households do not have space for any wheeled bins, so they are offered alternative recycle bags, houses that already have wheeled bins for household waste and the blue lid bins would be offered the green lid wheeled bin.
  • What is the recommended time to put your bin out for collection and if a bin is put out at a different time, too far in advance, and does this result in a fine. Answer: We ask that bins are placed out at 7.00am on the day of collection and brought back in as soon as is possible after the collection has been made. However if people put their bins out on the night before a collection there would not usually be a problem with that, and there would be no fine for doing so.
  • Will a compost facility be available in the future. Answer: We do have a food compost scheme available where subsidized compost bins can be purchased by Wiltshire residents, leaflets on this and information on the website are available.
  • Is a reduction in council tax available to the rural households that are capable of composting food and garden waste on their own land, and therefore would not require the green waste service. Answer: At the moment data is not collected on a Community Area basis and the waste and recycling services provided by the Council are available to everyone in Wiltshire.

 

The Chairman thanked Tracy for attending.