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City Council Study Session -10/17/05 Minutes - Page 15 proposal evaluation criteria rankings from the City Council; and delivery, under separate cover, the individual proposals to the City Council. Mr. Pratt reviewed the evaluation criteria rankings; qualifications; innovations; education; and improving multi- family service; revenue sharing; price; and efforts at pollution reduction; and recommended Eureka Recycling as number one and two. Discussion included lack of involvement of several Councilmembers (Ihlan and Schroeder) in the discussion, interview and evaluation process. Mr. Pratt noted that the evaluations were done independently by each reviewer, and no actual interviews were held. Councilmember Schroeder took issue that his request to be involved had been ignored by staff; and opined that there was no effective procedure laid out for evaluation of the proposals. Councilmember Ihlan reiterated her previous objections to not identifying the firms by name, rather than clandestinely by number or letter. Mayor Klausing noted Council preference for identifying the firms by letter or number; and refocused the discussion. City Attorney Anderson reiterated his caution to the Council related to the Data Practices Act and what was considered reasonably necessary for discussion purposes. Council majority agreed to use actual names of firms during this discussion to avoid additional confusion. Further discussion included marketing of recycled materials; types and preferences of collection methods (single and/or dual sort); interactive and personal levels of communication among firms; techniques for increasing participation of residents; education methods; and pilot study data previously collected. Staff provided updated data since the pilot study was performed; industry trends; and improving markets.