CLEAN SWEEP GRANT RESOLUTION

Committee Status: 
Preliminary Review
Budget Status: 
Budgeted
Decision Impact: 
Significant
FTE Impact: 
Yes
Funding Source: 
Grant

Purpose

Resolution Authorizing the Director of Land Resources and Environment to Submit Grant Applications for DATCP Clean Sweep Grant Program

Background

BACKGROUND:

Sauk County recognizes that proper disposal of hazardous waste is important to the safety and well-being of County residents and the collection and proper disposal of hazardous wastes serves to protect the natural resources of the County.  Sauk County has supported the Clean Sweep Program and hazard waste collection events held in the County for well over twenty years.

 

The Land Resources and Environment Department hosts one (1) Clean Sweep Event annually as well as several Ag Plastic events throughout the year to assist residents with the proper disposal of hazardous wastes.  The Clean Sweep Grant Program through DATCP helps to defray some of the expense of disposing of the collected materials and provides a service to County residents that would otherwise be costly to individual households and helps to protect the natural resources of Sauk County.

Resolution Files: 
Budget Status (Other/External Sources): 

Fiscal Impact: [  ] None   [X] Budgeted Expenditure    [  ] Not Budgeted

Resolution Body

RESOLUTION #

 

 

Resolution Authorizing the Director of Land Resources and Environment to Submit Grant Applications for DATCP Clean Sweep Grant Program

 

Resolution offered by the Land Resources and Environment Committee

 

 

Resolved by the Board of Supervisors of Sauk County, Wisconsin:

 

BACKGROUND:

Sauk County recognizes that proper disposal of hazardous waste is important to the safety and well-being of County residents and the collection and proper disposal of hazardous wastes serves to protect the natural resources of the County.  Sauk County has supported the Clean Sweep Program and hazard waste collection events held in the County for well over twenty years.

 

The Land Resources and Environment Department hosts one (1) Clean Sweep Event annually as well as several Ag Plastic events throughout the year to assist residents with the proper disposal of hazardous wastes.  The Clean Sweep Grant Program through DATCP helps to defray some of the expense of disposing of the collected materials and provides a service to County residents that would otherwise be costly to individual households and helps to protect the natural resources of Sauk County.

 

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Sauk County Board of Supervisors, meeting in regular session, that Sauk County continues to support the Clean Sweep hazardous waste collection and ag plastic collection events in Sauk County; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Land Resources and Environment is hereby authorized to submit the Clean Sweep Grant application.

 

Approved for presentation to the County Board by the Land Resources and Environment and Economic Development Committees, this 16 day of May 2023.

Requested Board Review Date: 
Tuesday, May 16, 2023