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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes August 22, 2006 Page 4 Mayor Faust stated Council found that multi - family units are not required to recycle and this would need to be addressed. Mayor Faust closed the public hearing at 7:20 p.m. 7 Councilmember Horst stated he had discussions with residents who are concerned with the size 8 of the containers who asked if they would be forced to have larger containers at their homes. He 9 commented this should be discussed further. 10 11 Councilmember Stille stated with every meeting Council learns more, such as addressing alleys 12 and truck traffic and the lighter trucks that could be used in the alleys. He emphasized there is 13 more work to be done and would like to do it right. 14 15 Councilmember Gray stated he would like to see it tabled and asked Staff to continue working 16 with vendors to try to figure out ways to reduce traffic for garbage pickup. He stated he feels the 17 City has an opportunity to do this right. 18 19 Mayor Faust suggested Council ask Staff to look at a pilot program for a year and then re- 20 address it. He summarized what he heard from Council and recommended someone should make 21 a motion to table this to the second meeting in September to give Staff more time to work on 22 issues raised. He said it behoove the Council to encourage everyone to recycle, even in the multi 23 family units. 24 25 Motion by Councilmember Gray, seconded by Councilmember Horst, to table Single Sort 26 Recycling decision until the September 26, 2006 meeting. 27 28 M_ otion carried unanimously. 29 30 Councilmember Horst asked Mr. Gline what is done with the recyclables now and does it 31 services the multi- family unit. 32 33 Mr. Glein stated there are a total of nine containers to hold their recyclables. 34 35 Councilmember Horst asked if they realized the single sort would mean everything could go into 36 one container. 37 38 Ms. Jennifer Klennert, Waste Management, explained how apartments and multi family units are 39 handled. She stated multi family residents would continue to contract for once per week or what 40 ever the multi units required. She said both Walters and Waste Management would continue to 41 service multi family weekly. 42 43 Mayor Faust asked Ms. Klennert if they had contracts with the multi family units. 44 45 She replied yes, each hauler had a contract with specific multi family units.