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Board of County Commissioners Meeting Minutes - Final October 4, 2022 thanked all those who responded and helped prepare for this event. He mentioned the issues with the drainage, power loss, and in a PowerPoint Presentation, he displayed the extent of the beach and dune erosion within the County. He mentioned there was a fairly significant amount of debris from the storm, but significantly less than prior events and that staff was not recommending an additional debris pickup. He stated the County issued an emergency purchase order to bring in two claw trucks in addition to the Public Work's trucks to assist in picking up debris from the public rights-of-way. Although the County had been declared eligible for emergency measures by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the County was not declared eligible for debris clearing. Commissioner Flescher turned to County Administrator Brown proposing to waive the tipping fees for vegetative waste by commercial vehicles at the landfill for one month. Managing Director of the Solid Waste Disposal District (SWDD) Himanshu Mehta agreed on waiving the tipping fees for vegetative waste and stated the County opened areas adjacent to the containers for the vegetative waste at each of the Convenience Centers, but emphasized the larger amounts of vegetative waste should be brought to the landfill. He stated in order to move the vehicles in and out of the landfill, SWDD had come up with the average ton of a smaller vehicle bypassing them at the scale house and counted the number of vehicles coming into the landfill to quantify the amount of vegetative waste in order to pay the contractor. Chairman O'Bryan was in support of waiving the fees for two weeks, with Commissioner Flescher in agreement, starting October 5, 2022 and ending on October 19, 2022. It was the consensus by the Board not to activate the emergency debris pickup and to get the word out through the County's website and social media that there would be no bulk debris pickup and a reminder of the four cubic yards size -limit of vegetative waste for Waste Management customers. Chairman O'Bryan commended Public Works, Road and Bridge Division, Republic Waste Services, and Waste Management Services for their response after the storm. He expressed his concern for the number of power outages from a small scale storm and wanted to know what Florida Power & Light planned to do to prevent this from happening in the future. A motion was made by Commissioner Flescher, seconded by Chairman O'Bryan, to approve waiving landfill tip fees for debris, effective on October 5, 2022 and ending on October 19, 2022. The motion carried by the following vote: Indian River County Florida Page 6