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167 168 Chair Ficek indicated Roseville is bi-weekly in its recycling and he wondered how 169 it is decided between weekly and bi-weekly and the tradeoffs that might bring. 170 171 Ms. Stone stated it is a matter of cost; collecting half the City each week saves the 172 City a lot of money. 173 174 Mr. Johnson explained from the City-wide level staff ended up looking at, the last 175 time the REP was looked at, and something staff will do this round too is looking 176 at what every other week costs versus weekly costs. Staff also did work with 177 Ramsey County on this as well. 178 179 Ms. Stone noted there is also the option to get more than one recycle cart, if needed, 180 for the bi-weekly recycling pickup. , 181 182 Member Hodder asked how Eureka helped the businesses at some of the events 183 with compostables. How were the businesses guided to make sure what the 184 customer was given was able to be recycled. 185 186 Ms. Stone explained that with the support of the City, the City actually buys the 187 compostables for the events and her team goes to each business and asks a lot of 188 questions about serving and condiments, so the items are ordered correctly and then 189 the City covers the cost of the compostable, recyclable containers which lowers the 190 barriers for the vendors as well. 1 191 192 Member Misra explained she really appreciated some of the things brought up at 193 the beginning of the presentation, specifically some of the equity issues and the 194 living wage issue. She thought those sort of considerations should factor into the 195 City's determination as contracts are renewed, not just in this area, but others as 196 well to meet the City's goals. The other thing is she remembered several years ago 197 the whole shut down of the Chinese plastic market in particular and as she recalled, 198 the fact that Eureka was doing so much of its selling locally it made a big difference 199 and she knew in other parts of the Country there are cities shutting down way stream 200 recycling because those cities do not have markets for it. She suspected Minnesota 201 is doing better than a lot of other places because of those local markets. She 202 encouraged Eureka and the City to continue to look at that as well. 203 204 Mr. Johnson explained, regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, staff included that 205 in the last REP. That was one of the first RFP's in the City that included it. 206 207 Chair Ficek thanked Ms. Stone for the presentation. 208 209 8. Commission Name Change Discussion 210 Chair Ficek explained this item is to discuss possible name changes to the Public 211 Works Environment and Transportation Commission. He reviewed previous 212 Commission discussion that occurred. Page 5 of 8 Page 9 of 185