Agenda
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
- Virtual Networking
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
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Virtual Welcome/Opening Remarks & Updates
Matt Henigan, Deputy Director, Materials Management and Local Assistance Division, CalRecycle
- 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
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Session I: Novel Financing Options
David Goldstein, the Ventura County RMDZ Zone Administrator, will share the work he and others have done with creative financing to fund an Anaerobic Digester at a Wastewater Treatment Plant in his zone.
Moderator: Frank Severson, Senior Environmental Scientist, CalRecycle
- 9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
- Virtual Stretch Break
- 10:10 AM - 10:45 AM
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Session II: Peer Share
Cal State Fullerton Public Relations Advantage will share their marketing campaign for the Orange County RMDZ, how they developed it, and how zones around the state can use their local colleges and universities to replicate this effort. ZAs can share their business assistance projects and describe how the pandemic is affecting them and their businesses.
Moderator: Manuel Medrano, Zone Administrator, South San Diego/Imperial County Antonia Graham, Zone Administrator, Orange County Julia Islas, Public Relations Specialist, CSUF Alec D'leon, Student, CSUF Zi Hao Lin, Student, CSUF Younis Shabeb, Student, CSUF Sean Hamada, CSUF
- 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
- Virtual Stretch Break
- 10:55 AM - 11:15 AM
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Session III: Virtual Tour
David Goldstein is lining up a prerecorded virtual tour of a company in his zone that will walk us around their facility and talk to us live about issues they have with contamination and how they are dealing with them. They will also answer your questions.
Moderator: David Goldstein, Ventura County RMDZ, Zone Administrator Jeff Larson, Engineering Manager, New Indy Rudolph Rehbein, New Indy
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
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Session IV: Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling
Governor Newsom created a commission and requires it to issue policy recommendations and to identify products that are recyclable or compostable and regularly collected in curbside recycling programs by July 1, 2021. Manuel Medrano, your CARMDZ president, and John Davis, Zone Administrator, High Desert RMDZ, are both members of the commission and will give you an update on the commissions work and encourage your participation in the process.
Moderator: Manuel Medrano, Zone Administrator, South San Diego/Imperial County John Davis, Zone Administrator, High Desert RMDZ