2.145.040 Powers and duties.
The board shall assist in identifying creative and workable solutions to ongoing and emerging issues in solid waste management and provide a forum for input and recommendations to the assembly on solid waste policy and program directions. The board will also work to develop consensus on how to implement proposed solutions. The focus of the board is broad policy issues rather than technical details. The board shall:
A. Serve in an advisory capacity to the mayor and assembly on matters affecting solid waste handling in the KIB and establishing a solid waste management plan which meets the needs, desires and goals of the community. For the purposes of this chapter, “solid waste handling” means the management, storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing and final disposal of solid waste, including the recovery and recycling of materials from solid wastes, the recovery of energy resources from solid wastes or the conversion of the energy in solid wastes to more useful forms or combinations thereof.
B. Provide for balanced consideration and representation of the viewpoints, problems and issues regarding solid waste in the community.
C. Provide a forum for decision making in development of specific projects to meet local solid waste management needs.
D. Identify goals, policies and procedures that will aid Kodiak in addressing solid waste reduction and recycling including local source reduction.
E. Sponsor public outreach activities, services and programs and participate in and encourage regional cooperative activities.
F. Make recommendations about the necessity for and structure of a permanent recycling and waste reduction committee. [Ord. 2007-15 §2. Formerly §2.53.040].