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219 Mr. Culver stated this policy goes into beyond what the City is necessarily buying <br />220 as well as some of the practices on how the City does some things so maybe it helps <br />221 avoid buying something. <br />222 <br />223 Member Wozniak agreed. There is a lot of discussion on buying things but maybe <br />224 there should be discussion on avoiding buying things. By changing the way, the <br />225 City does things, such as more electronic communication rather than paper would <br />226 be an improvement. <br />227 <br />228 Mr. Culver thought staff could state that the Public Works Department shall meet <br />229 efforts of implementation of this policy and report annually to the City's "Green <br />230 Team" on the status. He did think education will be a pretty big component and <br />231 staff will need some help with that. <br />232 <br />233 Motion <br />234 Member Trainor moved, Member Kors seconded, to recommend the City <br />235 Council approve the amended Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policy. <br />236 <br />237 Ayes:5 <br />238 Nays:0 <br />239 Motion carried. <br />240 <br />241 6. Commercial Rate Analysis <br />242 City Engineer/Assistant Public Works Director Freihammer provided a brief <br />243 review on the Commercial Rate Analysis listed in the staff report dated February <br />244 26, 2019. <br />245 <br />246 Mr. Freihammer noted the majority of the commercial water users are in the lowest <br />247 bracket, less then 50,000 gallons, the equivalent to a single-family resident. <br />248 <br />249 Member Misra asked when staff talks about commercial water accounts are those <br />250 essentially meters with a lot of variability on how the meters are used and would be <br />251 hard to draw a conclusion. <br />252 <br />253 Mr. Freihammer stated that was correct. Some places have multiple meters which <br />254 are combined into one account. <br />255 <br />256 Member Wozniak asked what is the purpose is of the graphic shown separating by <br />257 accounts. <br />258 <br />259 Mr. Freihammer stated the purpose is to show that half of the users are low water <br />260 users and only a handful are high water users. It shows the distribution of the <br />261 accounts and that not all commercial accounts use a lot of water. <br />262 <br />Page 6 of 11 <br />