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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 8,2019 Page 8 costs at this point that the Council needs to look at and consider where the City is at. That is something that the Commission should look at, at the appropriate time and if some changes need to be made those are conversations the City should have as well. Chair Cihacek noted at the last PWETC, Eureka Recycling gave the Commission an update and the market for recyclables everywhere is not great as a market force and no one is making money or revenue shares. Councilmember Willmus indicated that is something he wanted to talk about. When the City went forward with the last renewal, the Council chose to go a rev- enue share route. There are other opportunities and routes available to the City and some of the conversations he thought needed to take place. In the past, Eure- ka has come to the Council when it needed to take a second look at a contract or renegotiate a contract and that is the type of conversation the Council might be looking to have if the City is writing significant checks. Councilmember Laliberte agreed with that conversation because during her tenure on the Council, there was extensive conversation about what that contract should look like and the revenue share. Another thing she wanted to mention was that she is the liaison to the Ramsey County League of Local Governments. That group was looking to bring Chair Slawick of the Met Council in for a discussion Q&A and she knows that as appointed Commission Members, everyone would be able to come to that event and decide if there were questions to ask as a part of the presentation. Councilmember Etten noted the most recent Sierra Club pamphlet is called "Trash Talk, Recycling Is Broken, Time to Reinvent. "The City is working with a company that does recycling but the City needs to be thinking about how to change the recycling program for the financial aspect as well as how it operates. He thought the PWETC could discuss how the City can reduce. Mayor Roe thought regarding the PWETC and an Environmental Commission, it would be worthwhile in the conversation to include examining the model of con- tinuing the way it is and not assume it cannot work because that might be the way it has to be. He did not know but thought it was worth having some conversations and figuring out if there is a way for it and what the pluses and minuses would be going forward. Chair Cihacek stated the Commission will pick up the proposal for restructuring, bring a couple of options for the Council to review, and decide on what is best. He would like the Council to give permission to recruit two Youth Commission- ers now.