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Commissioner Eggert inquired if this is another grant, and Solid Waste Manager Brooks explained that the DER is offering grant funds every year for recycling. We received about $158,000 last year. This is a twofold situation where we will be applying for the grant funds plus we will be submitting an annual report that is required as of October 1st. - Commissioner Bowman.asked if we didn't budget for a tire shredder, and Manager Brooks confirmed that a tire shredder is budgeted in the bond funds. Now we are stockpiling the tires until we can get a shredder. He noted that we don't get too many as our fee for tires is $70 a ton; so, the dealers have a tendency to take them to Fort Pierce where it is $50 a ton. Commissioner Scurlock wished the Board to be aware that the Fort Pierce fee is going up significantly, and it will be a tipping fee. We don't charge a tip fee, so we will have to be very careful to monitor to see what just what is coming into our county as he felt it can have a considerable effect on us. We already are getting a lot of commercial activity at the North County transfer station from those disposing of stuff from Grant, Micco, etc., in Brevard County. Solid Waste Manager -Brooks confirmed that there is some problem with material coming in from out of county, but noted that it is difficult to identify where this material is coming from; you can't actually tell by car tags. When we get into mandatory collection, we are going to try to actually code and identify vehicles for the haulers in Indian River County to control it as much as possible. Il; Commissioner Eggert inquired about the status of having personnel at all the collection stations now. Manager Brooks advised that the budget was just approved and we hope to have some people hired by early or mid November to man those stations but there is some work that must be done at the facilities first. 51 `� " ��K � F'"c _