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Abstain: 1 <br />Motion carried. <br />4. Communication Items <br />Assistant Public Works Director/City Engineer Lowry provided a brief review and <br />update on projects and maintenance activities listed in the staff report dated <br />November 28, 2023. <br />5. Recycling RFP Discussion <br />Environmental Manager Ryan Johnson made a presentation on the 2024 Recycling <br />REP. <br />Chair Ficek indicated the City's current contract has a one or two-year extension <br />and he wondered if that has been ruled out. <br />Environmental Manager Johnson explained the City would not want to extend this <br />contract because the City is looking at getting the savings out of getting the carts <br />out. Staff is not ruling out for certain, if there is a big push to extend then the City <br />will do that. <br />Member Fergus explained the information states there is an approximate fifty - <br />thousand -dollar maintenance cost for the carts and if the carts were to get stolen or <br />destroyed, the Voss memo mentioned RFID tags, which he assumed has an <br />additional cost, but he suspected someone is looking at the cost of RFID tags versus <br />what is saved. <br />Environmental Manager Johnson explained they have actually gone away with the <br />RFID tags. Residents thought this was very big brotherish that they knew the carts <br />were actually there and residents thought by reading the RFID tag that people would <br />be found to have not put out recyclables of things like that. What the contractors <br />are doing now is using cameras that are rolling the entire time to protect the driver <br />and City and even a resident from missed pickups, damage, etc. <br />Member Fergus explained the pickup in the park, Environmental Manager Johnson <br />was talking about the amount picked up and from his own observations it did not <br />seem like recycling in the park was not well separated which he would assume is <br />then adding more contamination so he wondered if there was any discussion or <br />thought given to whether the park bins are adding more contamination to the whole <br />stream and maybe not a good thing to do. <br />Environmental Manager Johnson explained that always comes up and Park staff <br />actually does a very nice job with keying in on the recycling areas that are <br />problematic and actually help staff out a lot by going to the cart and pulling out <br />some of the materials to clean it up. <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />