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