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Home My WebLink AboutBoard of Commissioners - Minutes - 04/21/2009MINUTES OF THE OTTER TAIL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Perham Resource Recovery Facility Conference Room 201 61h Avenue NE, Perham, MN Tuesda~April21,2009 9:30 a.m. Call to Order The Otter Tail County Board of Commissioners convened Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at 9:30 a.m., at the Perham Resource Recovery Facility in Perham, MN, with Commissioners Everett Erickson, Chair; Roger Froemming, Vice-Chair; John Lindquist, Doug Huebsch and Lee Rogness present. Approval of Agenda Motion by Rogness, second by Froemming, and unanimously carried to approve the Board of Commissioners agenda of April 21, 2009, with the following additions: Request from the Human Services Director Request from County Auditor Approval of Minutes Motion by Rogness, second by Lindquist, and unanimously carried to approve the Board of Commissioners meeting minutes of April 14, 2009, with the following corrections: Page 7 under Paragraph entitled "Seasonal Stall for Land & Resource Department" -replace Assistant Ag Inspector with Biological Control Assistant Page 7 under Paragraph entitled "Stall for Solid Waste Department", Item 2) should read as follows: Two full time (40 hours per week) and three part time Certified Solid Waste Operator positions to work at the Fergus Falls Transfer Station when it opens this summer. Approval to Pay Bills Motion by Lindquist, second by Huebsch, and unanimously carried to approve payment of the County Board bills per Attachment A of these minutes. Temporary Staff Request Motion by Lindquist, second by Rogness, and unanimously carried to authorize the Human Services Director to contract for two part-time Kelly Temporary employees to provide intake functions while a full-time employee is on a leave of absence from May through July of 2009. License Approval Motion by Huebsch, second by Froemming, and unanimously carried to approve the following applications for license: Zorbaz of Ottertail Lake, Inc. 36108 County Highway 72 Battle Lake, MN 56515 Zorbaz on Pelican Lake, Inc. Zorbaz Ill 51709 County Highway 9 Pelican Rapids, MN 56572 On-Sale Liquor and Sunday Liquor (Seasonal -April 1 through October 31, 2009) On-Sale Liquor and Sunday Liquor (Seasonal -April 1 through October 31, 2009) Payment Approval Motion by Huebsch, second by Lindquist, and unanimously carried to approve payment, in the amount of $4,875.87, from the Construction Fund to Comstock Construction, Inc. of MN for construction of the Otter Tail County 60-Bed State Operated Inpatient CD Treatment Facility as detailed in Payment Request No. 16. OTC Board of Commissioners' Minutes April 21, 2009 Page 2 Tour of Perham Resource Recovery Facility (PRRF) The Board of Commissioners along with Solid Waste Director, Mike Hanan, met with Brian Schmidt, Plant Manager at the PRRF, for a site tour of the Waste Recovery Facility. After discussing plant operations including: 1) combustion units, 2) inclined fluidized bed grate system, 3) steam generation system, 4) facility Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM) system and, 5) compliance monitoring, the commissioners proceeded with the site tour. They viewed the combustion units in operation, viewed and discussed the limitations of the waste fired boiler, steam generation, the mechanical crane feed system, and the electric turbine generator. The next part of the tour included viewing and discussing the facilities air emission control system including the carbon injection and lime injection systems, and bag house scrubbers. Finally, the commissioners toured the facilities ash handling system and discussed the limitations of the magnetic separator and use of landfill leachate as facility make-up water. The PRRF does not have two distinctly different combustion trains, unlike most recovery facilities. II has two separate primary and secondary combustion units and rather than the units remaining separated, they combine into one boiler and one air emission control system. This creates some additional facility down time that is not necessarily experienced by other facilities. The PRRF is a total steam provider to both Tuffy's Pet Foods and Bongards Creamery. At 11:25 a.m., Chairman Erickson recessed the meeting of the Board of Commissioners to travel to Fosston, MN and for lunch break. At 1:50 p.m., Chairman Erickson reconvened the meeting of the Board of Commissioners at the Polk County Resource Recovery Facility in Fosston, Minnesota. Commissioners met with Plant Manager, Bill Wilson, who lead the on site tour. The Polk County Facility is made up of two distinct operations, the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and the Resource Recovery Facility (RRF). Commissioners toured the MRF first, which is a facility where raw unprocessed garbage is dumped onto the tipping floor of the RRF and then transported via a system of conveyors to the MRF. Inside the MRF, waste is processed using a variety of hand sorting and mechanical sorting to remove bulky items and cardboard, broken glass, ferrous metals, and aluminum. Ultimately materials removed are either recycled, reused or disposed of separately and the remaining processed waste is returned to the tipping floor of the RRF. Corrugated cardboard is baled and sold for recycling. Bulky items that include some metals are sold as scrap for recycling while other bulky items that have no market value are disposed of at the Polk County Landfill. Items such as ferrous metals and aluminum (both cans and other aluminum) are sold for recycling. The processed waste is returned to the RRF for combustion. The process creates efficient facility operations, less facility down time for cleaning and maintenance, and ultimately less facility wear and tear on equipment. The tour continued in the Polk County RRF. This facility consists of two primary and two secondary combustion units as well as two waste fired boilers and two separate air emission systems and scrubbers. The facility is a steam provider for three food processing companies as well as a periodic generator of electricity for sale on the electrical grid. While the Polk County RRF is similar to the Perham facility in some ways it is different in many others as follows: 1) Polk County Facility uses a hopper feed system with front end loaders versus the PRRF crane feed system, 2) Polk County facility utilizes a step down grate system and feed rams versus the Inclined Fluidized Bed system at the PRRF and, 3) Polk County facility completely separates its combustion units all the way to the end of the air emission system which allows for greater facility redundancy. Polk County's unique pilot project is their Ash Utilization Project. This project began as a demonstration project and fact finding project with the MPCA and has transformed into a project where they have used a considerable amount of the ash generated at the facility for building roads in Polk County. Adjournment At 3:50 p.m., Chairman Erickson declared the meeting of the Otter Tail County Board of Commissioners adjourned until Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Dated: -~fi~L/.,_,/,_.2.=8'.,__,_/ 2-~y_· ~)~9 __ I I o~o~=MMISSIONERS B· .&;u~ Everett P. Erickson, Board of Commissioners Chair OTC Board of Commissioners' Minutes April 21, 2009 Attachment A, Page 1 WARRANTS APPROVED ON 4/21/2009 FOR PAYMENT 4/21/2009 VENDOR NAME A'VIANDS LLC JON AAKRE ARVIG COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AUTO VALUE FERGUS FALLS BARNA GUZY & STEFFEN LTD BRAUN INTERTEC CORPORATION BRAUN VENDING INC JOHN BUSHMAN CDW GOVERNMENT INC CENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE CIT TECHNOLOGY FIN SERV INC CO OP SERVICES INC CONCEPT FINANCIAL GROUP COOPERS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATE HUMAN SERVICES INC DACOTAH PAPER COMPANY DENZEL'S REGION WASTE INC FERGUS ELECTRIC CITY FERGUS FALLS FORCE AMERICA G & K SERVICES GALL'S INC GE CAPITAL (CA) GODFATHERS EXTERMINATING INC STEPHEN GOERDT GOPHER STATE ONE CALL GRAINGER INC HAWES SEPTIC TANK PUMPING HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVI HIGH PLAINS TECHNOLOGY SHELDON HOLM HONEYWELL INDEPENDENT EMERGENCY SERVICES INFORMATION SYSTEMS CORP INNOVATIVE OFFICE SOLUTIONS JACOBSON CONSTRUCTION KELLY SERVICES INC KOEP'S CLITHERALL CORNER LAKE REGION HEALTHCARE CORP LAKEWAY MARKET LLC LITTLE FALLS MACHINE INC LOCATORS & SUPPLIES INC M-R SIGN COMPANY INC. MANNY'S -ROCKY'S BAIT MARCO MARCO INC ST LOUIS MN CO ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION MN CO INSURANCE TRUST MN DEPT OF COMMERCE MN POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY N F FIELD ABSTRACT CO LLC OFFICE DEPOT OK TIRE STORES OTTER TAIL CO TREASURER OTTERTAIL TRUCKING INC OVERHEAD DOOR CO OF FERGUS FAL AMOUNT 1,480.99 100.00 45.78 250.72 2,405.00 2,677.50 27.44 197.00 1,131.48 450.00 189.86 3,758.32 3,690.25 303.76 6,000.00 461.96 532.71 435.10 7,656.50 5,244.38 1,724.32 561.20 372.74 337.13 128.20 11.30 97.68 70.00 29.10 1,717.85 151.25 1,977.25 64.00 77.05 9.81 2,050.00 380.00 125.16 1,750.90 3,144.25 1,112.70 80.51 1,736.18 1,990.23 873.75 319.76 115.00 80.00 45.00 400.00 1,275.00 56.29 1,866.65 41 09 9,138.00 60.00 OTC Board of Commissioners' Minutes April 21, 2009 Attachment A, Page 2 PELICAN RAPIDS PRESS PEPSIAMERICAS PERHAM CO OP CREAMERY PERHAM ENTERPRISE BULLETIN PETE'S BODY SHOP & TOWING QUILL CORPORATION RAY'S OIL COMPANY REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF M REVIEW ENTERPRISES INC CHERI SCHULTZ SERVICE FOOD SUPER VALLI SEWER SERVICE SHERWIN WILLIAMS STEINS INC STEVE'S SANITATION INC STREICHERS TEAM LABORATORY CHEMICAL CORP UNIFORMS UNLIMITED UNIV OF MN EXTENSION SERVICE VISUAL GOV SOLUTIONS LLC WALLWORK TRUCK CENTER WASTE MANAGEMENT WILKIN CO HIGHWAY DEPT •••• FINAL TOTAL ..... 34.00 346.45 3,249.68 64.50 256.50 115.00 844.33 53,299.98 56.00 5.30 13.12 80.00 27.10 1,498.24 45.63 256.01 412.69 276.00 143.78 10.50 649.29 16,663.18 7,883.91 $157,239.29 ••••