Monitors for Swap Area

This morning I suggested to Mike Sullivan via the email below that we start appointing volunteer monitors at the swap area to police how it is run.  Thanks to Steve Catanese and Bert Rosengarten for sharing their ideas with me on Saturday on how to make the swap area work better.

For your meeting with the solid waste committee this morning, please ask them to consider implementing rules related to the operation of the swap area at the Transfer Station:
1.    Recognize a group of volunteer monitor for the swap area
2.    Appoint someone like Nancy Irwin as the first chair of that group
3.    Authorize that group to create a list of rules for swap area use, in coordination with the Transfer Station staff
a.    E.g. –
i.    Enforce the no CRT rule
ii.    Ask depositors to not leave broken items, items which should instead be tossed directly into the dump area
iii.    Segregate items by type
4.    Provide the monitors with vests that indicate their appointed status
5.    I suggest providing them with a CB radio by which they can call to the police detail person
6.    Explore allowing a trailer to be parked at the swap area, in which items could be stored for the next swap day