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Accept February minutes: Commissioner motion and voice approval

- Motion: \"I move we accept February meeting minutes.\" Moved by David (Director) and seconded by Mike Schneller. The commission approved the minutes by voice vote; no opposed or abstentions were recorded on the record.

Conservation District nomination: commission nominates local farmer

- Motion: The commission moved to nominate Lou Esgrove of Lindsay's Flower Farm in Chadds Ford Township for appointment to the Conservation District board. Julie Pray made the motion and David seconded. The commission voted \"Aye\" and the motion carried.

Adjournment

- Motion: \"I move, we adjourn.\" Moved by David (Director) and seconded by Ron (last name not specified in the transcript). The motion carried by voice vote.

Procedural note: The meeting transcript records the outcomes as voice votes and the chair declared the motions adopted; the transcript does not list a roll-call tally of individual votes for these routine procedural items.

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Becca Jurkovich, sustainability staff for Delaware County, said the county has installed five electric-vehicle charging stations in the Orange Street parking lot in Media and two additional chargers at Rose Street Park; the initial stations are reserved for county vehicles while the county builds sufficient network capacity. \"They are currently reserved for county vehicles only, but it was much needed infrastructure upgrade to support our EV fleet,\" Jurkovich said.

Other facility and operations changes Jurkovich described include adjusting building lighting schedules, a custodial-staff recycling retraining session, and a dual-cart system procurement to reduce contamination during pickup. Jurkovich said the county plans a supply swap during Earth Week so departments can reuse surplus supplies rather than discard them.

Workforce and grants

Jurkovich said the county received nine internship applications and is screening candidates with the goal of hiring by April for a May start. She said the sustainability coordinator position (a backfill) has been posted with a lowered experience requirement; the job will be open through April 13 at delcopa.gov/jobs.

Infrastructure and studies

- Tree canopy: Jurkovich said a consultant is finalizing mapping data that will be available at both the census block-group and municipal scales to show how canopy has changed over time.

- Shared energy manager: The county is participating in a PADEP program to plan charging-infrastructure placement and future shared services to support both the county fleet and potential public access.

Recycling and waste operations

Jurkovich said facilities is purchasing a dual-cart system and will train custodial staff in March to reduce contamination and improve separation during collection. She said a county-led pilot will begin to clarify recycling practices in courthouse and government-center facilities.

Community events and outreach

Jurkovich highlighted the Keep Delco Beautiful cleanup scheduled for the coming weekend at Sun Village Park in Chester, saying about 52 volunteers had signed up so far. The county is hosting the event with 11 partner organizations, offering a free pizza lunch and tabling opportunities for local groups. A county planner present at the meeting said the planning department will also be at the cleanup to provide information about a county air-monitoring project in partnership with DEP.

Conference planning and public programs

On the county's virtual sustainability conference, Jurkovich said organizers have confirmed speakers for topics including sustainable homeowners associations, environmental health, cumulative impact assessments, urban agriculture and a municipal ban on gas-powered leaf blowers. Jurkovich said the commission is still seeking speakers on transportation and zero-waste basics and invited commissioners to propose sessions and preferred time slots (lunch-hour and evening sessions were discussed).

Other notes

Jurkovich said the county's LED lighting project (funded through the federal Inflation Reduction Act via the Department of Energy) remains paused, and that the county received a $500 mini-grant for the Saturday cleanup event. She also said toner-recycling options through a vendor will allow departments to clear long-stored supplies.

Ending: Jurkovich asked commissioners to help recruit volunteers, presenters and applicants for internships and the posted sustainability coordinator position and said staff will circulate follow-up materials and a draft conference itinerary after the meeting.

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The draft, presented by Becca Jurkovich, sustainability staff for Delaware County, aims to separate zero-waste strategy from a separate 10-year municipal solid-waste compliance plan required under the state's Act 101 process. Jurkovich said the new draft reduces the plan's length and reorganizes initiatives to make the document more accessible to the public.

Why it matters: The county is revising two linked planning efforts'a regulatory compliance plan and a broader zero-waste policy document'and is seeking to make the zero-waste plan usable for municipalities, residents and partners. The plan sets out initiatives that could shape future county and local actions on recycling, reuse, litter, illegal dumping and waste-reduction programs.

County staff told commissioners the original zero-waste draft exceeded 200 pages and has been pared down for clarity and public use. \"The original draft was 266 pages ... we have it down to about 46 pages,\" Jurkovich said during the meeting. She added the shorter draft brings important background material into the main text and reorganizes initiatives into action-focused items labeled as low-, mid- and long-range steps.

Key details from the draft and presentation

- Structure and size: Jurkovich said staff reduced the plan's length to about 46 pages to make it more accessible, moving detailed technical material to the separate 10-year municipal solid-waste compliance document.

- Baseline data: The plan now uses 2022 tonnage data as the baseline for analysis and targets, replacing earlier 2020 figures that staff said were distorted by pandemic conditions.

- Initiatives: The draft retains the plan's original guiding principles and goals but consolidates overlapping initiatives (for example, combining construction-and-demolition and deconstruction categories, and merging universal recycling and universal collection elements). Jurkovich said the plan also adds actions on litter and illegal dumping, which were not in the initial draft.

- Organization and implementation emphasis: Instead of presenting initiatives based on hypothetical full-time staff positions (a structure used in earlier drafts), Jurkovich said the document now groups actions into four topic areas: policy, culture, curbing waste (including curbside collection changes) and infrastructure. The draft flags actions where municipal adoption will be necessary for success.

- Timeline and next steps: Jurkovich said the draft will be posted to the county website for public review and that commissioners should provide comments before an April meeting discussion. \"I have shared the draft with all of you, and, again, we'll be putting that on the website,\" she said. Staff told the commission they aim to present a graphic-packaged draft between the April and May meetings and, if all goes as planned, seek commission approval in May and then send the plan to county council in June. If that schedule slips, the county council review would move to July.

What stayed the same: Jurkovich said the plan retains the previously established goals and the zero-waste hierarchy, and continues to reflect guiding principles derived from prior public engagement and an equity lens.

Public and agency context: Jurkovich and a commissioner who follows state policy said the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) prefers that the county treat the compliance plan separately from broader zero-waste strategy. That separate compliance document will continue to focus on projections of nonrecyclable waste and waste-disposal pathways under Act 101 requirements.

Next steps and how to comment: Jurkovich asked commissioners to send comments by the April meeting (April 10 is the next scheduled commission meeting). Staff will post the draft on the county website and accept public input before the commission's scheduled review. The commission did not take a formal vote on the draft during the March meeting.

Ending: County staff said they will finalize footnotes and graphic layout if commissioners and the public provide substantive feedback this month; a public review period and an April agenda item were scheduled as the next steps.

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