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<br />Regular City Council Minutes - 9/15/03 <br />Page 18 <br /> <br />residents and Councilmembers. <br /> <br />Gary Boyum, Waste Management <br />Mr. Boyum attempted to negotiate with Councilmember <br />Kough at the bench on a preferred contract term and price. <br /> <br />Councilmember Kough opined a desire to see the City <br />participate in the profits realized by revising the current <br />contract from a two-sort to a single-sort collection, and <br />eliminating the pilot program, currently part of the existing <br />contract. <br /> <br />Mr. Boyum expressed an apparent lack of concern of <br />residents when only ten (10) people attended the recent <br />facility tour, even though four hundred invitations, in <br />addition to advertising, had been provided. <br /> <br />When highlighted by Mayor Kysylyczyn as to the <br />accuracy of the recovery of materials addressed in the <br />anonymous flyer; Mr. Boyum advised that over ninety <br />percent (90%) of materials were experienced by their <br />facility in a single-stream process. <br /> <br />Amy Ihlan, 1776 Stanbridge Avenue <br />Ms. Ihlan spoke of her attendance at the tour and review of <br />single-sort processing in 8t. Louis Park, opining that the <br />system that worked best was related to the preferences in <br />context of the specific city's residents. Ms. Ihlan observed <br />that the tour had been very informative, and the facility <br />operated on revenues from the sales of materials, with <br />costs of hauling and collection reflected in the monthly <br />cost to residents. <br /> <br />Susan Hubbard, Eureka Recycling, a Non-profit <br />Providing Recycling Services in the City of St. Paul <br />Councilmembers Kough and Klausing encouraged Mayor <br />Kysylyczyn to allow Ms. Hubbard an opportunity to <br />comment, even if she was a potential competitor of Waste <br />Management. <br /> <br />Ms. Hubbard expressed her appreciation of the Council's <br />