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Message ■ From: BRUCE NELSON [mailto gloom, Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:09 PM To: Roseville Subject: Recycling etc,, Page 1 of I endured the long city council meeting the other night and came away wondering about several things. one of which is why the city has to change its recycling program when it still has 2 plus years on a contract. Does that mean that the current program is not working? If there still is years left, why then is the city not soliciting bids for a new program, similar to homer street repair is done. Is competition bad? I remember hearing that the increase recycling fee was going up from around $2.08 or something. Well, I just paid ray current city fees and this is ghat I paid: water $18.80 sewer $18.00 storm $4.60 recycling 5.50 Am I missing something here I'm paying $5.50 now, then I must really be getting a deal. In a year of fiscal budget cuts without raising taxes, hoer come you want to vote to raise a fee, when you don't have to? And what's wrong with negotiating a deal so that the city gets something back for citizen participation in recycling. Yes, I did not tour the plant because the announcement was not in the newspaper of record (Saint Paul Pioneer Press), and I did not receive the paper it was in until Thursday night - - -and I had other plans for Saturday. But I would life to know, hove the recycling is sorted. If by machine, then there must be some very sophisticated machines out there, but I'm thinking that it is done by minimum wage labor. Something Roseville may or may not be proud of. Why can't Roseville take the more effective and efficient approach and be like the majority of the recycling cities and stay with the 2 stream process? I thinly it is also time that you bestow credit on those city employees that do the work that you ask of them. They should be the ones that get the credit for holding the line' Some side notes: Mr. Schroeder -- -you did not answer all the ema ils regarding ecycling- --at least not mind from 9/04/03. Mr. Schroeder- __good job with the compassion statement with regards to the Moog land use issue. Mr. Dough - -- thanks for spearing with compassion about wanting to waiting on the recycling issue. Mr. I ysylyczyn -Y- -since you agreed with Mr. Schroeder's remarks, why couldn't you shove compassion and treat Mr. Kough with some respect for his views? Mr. I ysylyczyn ---you mentioned that it costs the city 500 per hour for a city council meeting- - thanks for taping an hour to rehash the same recycling theme and Deep questioning Mr. Klausing and Mr. Dough. 9/17/2003