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173 Public Works Director Culver provided a brief review on the Purchasing Policy 174 listed in the staff report dated February 26, 2019. 175 176 Chair Cihacek stated the Statue of reference for this item should be 16C.073, 177 Purchase and use of Paper Stock; Printing. He stated Mr. Culver could also include 178 in the ten percent threshold because that is part of the Statute for paper products. 179 He stated he did not really like the wording "as per Minnesota Statute and the EPA" 180 because the City is not under the jurisdiction of either. The City has the option to 181 be placed under the jurisdiction. He would probably word the sentence to read "In 182 accordance with" or "under the advisement of to make it clear that this is not a 183 mandate to the organization but something the City is choosing to accept as a 184 standard. 185 186 Chair Cihacek asked staff if the City buys off of State CPV contracts, he noted Mr. 187 Culver may not know that answer. He reviewed what the State CPV program is. 188 189 Mr. Culver stated the City does use State contracting for a lot of items already, but 190 he was not sure if the City was using it for office products. He noted it is something 191 staff can look into. 192 193 Member Misra asked if there is anybody on staff that is going to be keeping an eye 194 on this Citywide. Encouraging, training, that type of thing. 195 196 Mr. Culver stated Ryan Johnson is the City's sustainability officer within his job 197 title. That is something the Department heads need to work through. The heads of 198 the different departments need to figure out how to report this. He will ask staff 199 that whenever a decision is made to go with a friendlier environmental product to 200 let him know what the cost implications are and what the product was in order to 201 record and track the product. Hopefully some actual cost savings can be seen by 202 doing this. He noted staff will try to work with the EPA on this. 203 204 Member Misra thought those are all good ideas but wondered if there should be 205 some attention to the implementation and to how this might be coordinated. 206 207 Chair Cihacek stated he did not disagree but thought if the implementation was too 208 specific it will start restraining the nature of the policy. Given the way the City is 209 going it might make more sense to pass this policy and also ask to increase the 210 resources. 211 212 Member Misra thought to pass a policy without any sort of attention being paid to 213 who is overseeing it is not wise. 214 215 Chair Cihacek thought maybe the responsible party for this policy is the 216 Department of Public Works who can come up with a program for training, 217 education, auditing and compliance of the policy. 218 Page 5 of 11