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117 Mr. Culver noted City owned carts also give them the flexibility to add the City 118 logo to the carts for a more customized look. 119 120 Member Spencer asked if the numbers in the REP taking into consideration three 121 different sizes of carts. If Roseville purchased carts and provided them, would there 122 be only one size available. 123 124 Mr. Johnson indicated staff would have to look at the different options and the cost 125 listed in the REP should be on the high side. This basically takes into consideration 126 having a buffer. 127 128 Chair Wozniak asked if staff is seeing a trend in cities purchasing their own 129 recycling carts. 130 131 Mr. Johnson thought it was the preference of each city. He explained Shoreview 132 did this in their last REP and St. Paul bought all of theirs. Maplewood decided not 133 to purchase carts after going through its REP. As of right now it is a little more 134 split of who wants carts. 135 136 Vice Chair Huiett indicated that regardless of who owns the cart, might there be an 137 alternative type of program where the resident and recycler have an option to 138 contribute and purchase an additional cart. She thought another cart might be 139 needed if the resident wanted to separate their recyclables by type. She wondered 140 if that option or alternative has been explored. 141 142 Mr. Johnson explained this has not been looked at. Currently what is done with 143 Eureka is if a resident wants another cart the resident can request one and there is 144 no cost associated with it. This is the model he had in mind but Vice Chair Huiett 145 brought up an interesting topic that he has not thought about. He noted managing 146 that would add another layer. 147 148 Mr. Culver explained the only problem with a resident using different carts for 149 different recycling products is that the recycling products still end up in the same 150 hopper on the truck. 151 152 Chair Wozniak indicated he wanted to look at the scoring slide because he had a 153 few questions about it. There has been some information brought forward about 154 scoring, diversity, equity and inclusion and he saluted staff and Philson Ibrahim 155 with Ramsey County for including this in the contract. He thought this was really 156 progressive and visionary on a number of levels. He was very interested in seeing 157 the response received from the vendors out there for this section. He was also 158 curious about how this will be scored. Given that the diversity, equity, and 159 inclusion is fifteen percent, and the community values is thirty percent so the 160 scoring will be almost half of the value of the response in this area. He thought that 161 was a lot and wondered if any of the Commissioners had concerns about how much Page 4 of 7