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Chair Ficek indicated Roseville is bi-weekly in its recycling and he wondered how it is decided between weekly and bi-weekly and the tradeoffs that might bring. Ms. Stone stated it is a matter of cost; collecting half the City each week saves the City a lot of money. Mr. Johnson explained from the City-wide level staff ended up looking at, the last time the REP was looked at, and something staff will do this round too is looking at what every other week costs versus weekly costs. Staff also did work with Ramsey County on this as well. Ms. Stone noted there is also the option to get more than one recycle cart, if needed, for the bi-weekly recycling pickup. Member Hodder asked how Eureka helped the businesses at some of the events with compostables. How were the businesses guided to make sure what the customer was given was able to be recycled. Ms. Stone explained that with the support of the City, the City actually buys the compostables for the events and her team goes to each business and asks a lot of questions about serving and condiments, so the items are ordered correctly and then the City covers the cost of the compostable, recyclable containers which lowers the barriers for the vendors as well. Member Misra explained she really appreciated some of the things brought up at the beginning of the presentation, specifically some of the equity issues and the living wage issue. She thought those sort of considerations should factor into the City's determination as contracts are renewed, not just in this area, but others as well to meet the City's goals. The other thing is she remembered several years ago the whole shut down of the Chinese plastic market in particular and as she recalled, the fact that Eureka was doing so much of its selling locally it made a big difference and she knew in other parts of the Country there are cities shutting down way stream recycling because those cities do not have markets for it. She suspected Minnesota is doing better than a lot of other places because of those local markets. She encouraged Eureka and the City to continue to look at that as well. Mr. Johnson explained, regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, staff included that in the last REP. That was one of the first RFP's in the City that included it. Chair Ficek thanked Ms. Stone for the presentation. 8. Commission Name Change Discussion Chair Ficek explained this item is to discuss possible name changes to the Public Works Environment and Transportation Commission. He reviewed previous Commission discussion that occurred. Page 5 of 8