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2. How will the municipality assure materials are collected in 2006 from those households that will not receive recycling collection services under a municipally - arranged contract? (e.g., ordinance provisions, licensing requirements, other mechanism) What materials are required to be collected, and at what frequency? City Ordinance #809.050: All our licensed haulers provide recycling to the households in the city. Weekly pickups are also provided for multi -unit buildings. Materials collected include: newspaper, corrugated cardboard, ledger paper, bi -metal cans, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, mixed mail and magazines. 3. How will the municipality assure that all recyclables collected from residential properties are recycled, whether collected by the municipality's contracted vendor or another service provider? All our haulers provide monthly or quarterly reports of tonnage and by the provision in the city contract with the haulers. 4. What changes are planned or anticipated for 2006? We plan to have a bigger response for our clean -up day by providing more publicity. The city is excited about going soon to a one -sort in recycling. 5. How are recycling services in 2006 to be paid for, beyond any use of SCORE funds? What long- term funding source is in place for recycling services? The haulers currently invoice our residents on their garbage billings. The haulers provide and promote recycling through fliers and invoice comments. The city provides promotions on recycling in the newsletters and also through our web site, welcome brochures and cable tv channel. 6. Describe the municipality's source reduction and recycling promotional efforts. List types of materials to be used, intended audiences, and method and frequency of distribution. The city provides for all businesses and residents a newsletter that is published six times a year. Each newsletter provides pages on information on recycling for our residents. We provide a welcome brochure to all new residents that explains our recyling procedures. We provide information on recycling on our website, cable tv station, city information line and displays in our lobby. 7. What measurable goals do you have for source reduction and recycling activities in 2006? At least ONE measurable goal must be listed. Please describe how you will measure progress toward those goals and how activities will be evaluated. We continue to strive for a 5% increse in recyling tonnage. We compile this informatior from the monthly haulers' tonnage reports and track this information for progress. 8. if any activities will be conducted by a contractor or subcontractor, what provisions will be made • to monitor and audit those activities? We require our contracted haulers to report their tonnage to our office on a regular basis. We monitor their tonnage through these reports. They also inform our office of any complaints or suggestions.