MINUTES

Regional Family Resource Network of Kanawha County

June 12, 2008 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.

Schoenbaum Family Enrichment Center

Charleston, West Virginia

Present: Michele Baranaskas (RFRN), Norm Steenstra (Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority), Wayne Bailey (Daymark), Sharon Midkiff (Central Child Care of WV), Heather Miller (PAT Parent Educator and RFRN Board Member), Eddie Belcher (Governor’s office) and Sergeant George Saunders (WV National Guard Drug Demand Reduction).

Michele welcomed everyone and asked them to introduce themselves.

Norm Steenstra spoke about the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority, which serves the entire county. Any city in WV with population of over 10,000 must recycle. Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority is a nonprofit but they also make money at recycling. It is the largest solid waste authority in the state, recycling 705,000 tons per year. The Solid Waste Authority has a glass pulverizer and will give away glass. Also accepted: plastics 1 – 7 (not styrofoam), aluminum and steel cans, paper – junk mail, newspapers and telephone books. They accept cardboard. If you have curbside recycling in your Kanawha County municipality, it goes to the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority. The Authority also cites landfills and assists them in meeting regulations.

Early Childhood Committee will meet on Monday, July 14 at 3 – 5 p.m. in the Charleston Room of the Schoenbaum Family Enrichment Center in Charleston to plan the next Kids First Community (Boone, Clay, Kanawha & Putnam Counties) meeting which will tentatively take place in the Dunbar area in August.

Kanawha CTC will meet on Wednesday, June 25 at 12 Noon in the Kanawha Valley Room of the Schoenbaum Family Enrichment Center.

Many announcements were shared.

The next KFRN meeting will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2007 at 12 Noon at the Schoenbaum Family Enrichment Center in Charleston.

Brown bag lunch.

Minutes taken & typed by Michele Baranaskas, Executive Director, RFRN