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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 12, 2015 Page 15 Ken Warwick,748 Grandview Mr. Warwick thanked the City Council for their ongoing involvement and for lis- tening to area residents to at least get a plan started, even though it was unfortu- nate that that plan had apparently fallen by the wayside. However it played out in the future with this or another proposal, Mr. Warwick expressed his concerns with timing, and asked that any future plan received all the same input as voiced the last time to retain the good cooperation between the neighborhood and the City. Jill Atwood, 841 Lovell In speaking personally and on behalf of at least four of her neighbors unable to at- tend tonight, Ms. Atwood wanted to go on record echoing the comments stated previously tonight; and thanked the City for this good plan for their neighbor- hood. Grant Johnson, Representative of Developer J.W. Moore Inc. From a developer's perspective, Mr. Johnson opined that the project could be via- ble, and expressed the interest of their development firm in discussing it further. Ken Warwick Mr. Warwick alerted staff and the City Council on the availability of two other empty lots on Lovell that had been vacant for some time and while unsure of their ownership, may also be available to add to a project. Mayor Roe and City Manager Trudgeon duly noted the communication concerns expressed by tonight's speakers. b. Zero Waste Discussion City Engineer Marc Culver briefly summarized what he preferred to term "To- ward Zero Waste" public events, as detailed in the RCA dated January 12, 2015. Mr. Culver noted that the 2013 contract with Eureka Recycling, now in its second of three years, included four "Zero Waste" events. Mr. Culver suggested options would be to include more events when issuing a new Request for Proposals (RFP), to add additional events immediately at extra city expense, or to find more volunteers to staff those efforts, recognizing that there was no guarantee that vol- unteers would be available to staff the events, which would create additional ex- penses for staff resources that he estimated between $1,500 to $2,000. Mr. Culver noted that part of the "Toward Zero Waste" effort was educating the public,but also vendors; and cautioned that in moving that direction, the City may not want to require their participation and potentially lose some of those vendors. Mr. Culver suggested starting with the educational process with vendors, and per- haps by the time a new recycling contract was available, that education could have been completed.