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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 14,2013 Page 21 would create an estimate of those responses in relationship to the overall commu- nity, with those not responding receiving a default cart size, with a certain per- centage automatically built in to address changes in cart sizes in the future. Mr. Brownsell advised that Eureka's experience with survey responses had been very good; and beyond that, they would build into the model how many carts to order and provide the default cart size unless otherwise requested by residents. Mr. Brownsell advised that the survey provided a smaller risk to Eureka in not falling outside that ratio; but without the benefit of a survey, they would need to order carts of one size or the other. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Goodwin advised that it would be easy to have samples of cart sizes available at City Hall for a more visual re- view by residents. Mr. Goodwin noted that it was Eureka's intention to also have pictures available on their website with people standing beside the bins to provide additional perspective on their size, and also providing ways for residents to cal- culate their current volume even without the additional plastics that would be added to curbside collection, and their considerable volume. Even though the cart sizes are different, Mr. Goodwin noted that their footprint was not actually that different, facilitating storage concerns. At the request of Councilmember Laliberte, Mr. Goodwin confirmed that part of their bin drop would include communication with residents on the change from weekly to every-other week pick-up. As part of that bin drop, Mr. Goodwin ad- vised that Eureka wanted to encourage people to continue separating out their plastics until Eureka could upgrade their facility and begin to accept them, and advising residents how to proceed until that change was initiated. At the request of Councilmember Laliberte, Mr. Brownsell confirmed that the on- ly reason for Eureka requesting the delay from January 1, 2014, was due to per- forming the survey and ordering the carts, not due to a delay in truck availability or changeover. Councilmember Willmus noted a comment he heard from a resident at the Wild R ice Festival who was under the impression that the City would no longer seek to have "zero waste events." While not aware of where that misinformation was coming from, Councilmember Willmus asked that Eureka mention that in their communication efforts, advising the public that those events would actually be expanded in the future. Mr. Goodwin duly noted that request. As a point of information, Councilmember Willmus asked the number of trucks servicing the community to pick up recyclables. Mr. Brownsell responded that different days will determine the number of trucks based on the route split.