RECYCLING, SALVAGE, AND METAL SCRAPPING TASK FORCE

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes RECYCLING, SALVAGE, AND METAL SCRAPPING TASK FORCE ALD. JOSEPH DUDZIK, CHAIR Jim Tolkan, Vice Chair Ald. Jose Perez, Art Arnstein, Art Dahlberg, Paulina de Haan, Darren Engbring, Rebecca Grill, Tony Teich, Jeff Thiele, and Sarah Zarate Staff Assistant: Linda Elmer, 286-2231 Fax: 286-3456, lelmer@milwaukee.gov Legislative Liaison, Andrew VanNatta, 286-2253, avanat@milwaukee.gov Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:00 AM City Hall, Room 301-A Meeting convened: 9:05 A.M. Members present: Ald. Joe Dudzik, Tony Telch, Jeff Thiele, Sarah Zarate, Art Arnstein, Art Dahlberg, Paulina de Haan, Darren Engbring and Rebecca Grill Excused: Ald. Jose Perez and Jim Tolkan 1. Review and approval of the minutes of the November 19, 2014 meeting. The minutes were approved without objections. 2. Discussion and creation of recommendations and report format/style for this body. Recommendations: Statewide - Lobby for a statewide system with the continued exemption for aluminum can recycling. Intergovernmental Relations has been lobbying on this since 2007. Lobby for state licensing of tow trucks. Increase the bonding requirement for tow trucks. Citywide -- If buying from an unlicensed dealer, then a hold on the vehicle. If coming from a licensed dealer, then there is no hold. Recording vehicle transactions daily, rather than the current within 30 days. Tow truck licenses Creation of an umbrella type license and a required corresponding plan of operations - tell the License Division what you're going to do and staff will tell you what type of license is needed which would also include a tow truck component. City creates a pamphlet relating to tow truck and junk collector licensing requirements as an education effort to be distributed by scrap yards who track how often people come to the yards. After the education date ends, the scrap yard will no longer accept materials from unlicensed dealers. [Mr. Engbring said at the January 15, 2015 meeting that this was not agreed to by the dealers and that what the dealers agreed to was to report unlicensed dealers to the police/city for enforcement action, but items would still be purchased from these individuals.] Scrap yards will report unlicensed tow truck operators and junk collectors after a City of Milwaukee Page 1 RECYCLING, SALVAGE, AND Meeting Minutes December 9, 2014 METAL SCRAPPING TASK FORCE specified amount of time or a specific date. Hold vehicles for 48 hours if purchased for scrap and doesn't have a title (exempting a salvage to salvage dealer transfer as long as the initial dealer in the chain has reported the vehicle through NMVTIS (the state) and was issued a confirmation number if using a junk vehicle bill of sale). Punitive action by the Licensing Committee or designation as a chronic nuisance premises for those dealers found with stolen items. Allocation of more police resources and staff to follow up on illegal tow truck operators and follow-up on leads from the scrap yards relating to potential theft. Requirement that operations that have purchased stolen items in the past videotape incoming items. Couldn't get consensus on: Reporting of what larger items actually came in (such as boilers, furnaces, heat pumps), rather than reporting on what it was converted into (such as Zero G turn lawnmower versus 1500 lbs. sheet iron) and where those items came from. More extensive reporting on the declaration of ownership saying that the materials are not stolen with a notation of where those items came from. Having the scrap yard personnel come to the site where the items are being removed from and picked up at with records as to who the seller was. The scrap dealers felt that this wouldn't be financially feasible. MIchael Tarantino and Jason Pioske - Always Towing came to the table said one of the problems is unlicensed operators. 3. Set next meeting date and agenda items. January 15th at 9 a.m Meeting adjourned: 10:55 A.M. Linda M. Elmer Staff Assistant City of Milwaukee Page 2