Resource Conservation Advisory Board Minutes 2008 01 14

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Resource Conservation Advisory Board January 14, 2008 Page 3 of 5 Proposal Details Louisville contract could incorporate any/all of the following: Contract period can be 3-to-5 years, can be specified to be revocable at any time. Mandate "pay-as-you-throw" trash rates (ie, the greater the volume of trash, the greater the per-unit cost to collect it). Mandate bundling of recyclables collection with trash collection, instead of as an extra-service/extra-cost option. City to "own" recyclable materials: city to provide collection bins for recyclables (instead of hauler), and receive any revenues collected for those materials. Haulers to bid only on haulinq recyclables to a collection facility. This option will allow smaller haulers to compete against larger haulers, since the significant cost of providing separate bins for recyclables for all city residents will be assumed by the city and not the haulers. Boulder-County Commissioners have expressed their willingness to provide financial assistance to cities to acquire recycling bins. HOAs may be exempt, but may opt-in. Following the presentation, board members and visitors asked questions about various items within Eco-Cycle's presentation. At the end of Eco-Cycle's presentation, there was discussion between members about points of this presentation compared to prior-months' presentations by Lisa Skumatz, SERA, Superior (Pay-as-you-Throw options), and Doug Short, Public- Works Director, Lafayette (Lafayette's recently implemented trash-hauler contract). A list of recommendations from LRCAB to be passed along to City Staff / City Council included: Louisville adopts a city-wide contract similar to that done by City of Lafayette. Such a contract to achieve goals of: increasing recyclables collection through universal availability; reducing materials hauled to landfill by diverting more to recycling; tracking changes in volumes of trash vs recyclables collected; reducing rates for a majority of residents; reducing volume of heavy truck traffic on city streets (and so reducing wear on streets, weekly hazards of heavy trucks on all streets); directing that collection of recyclables from Louisville go to Boulder County's Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), instead of being hauled out of county to other processing facilities. Such a contract to provide for: Pay-as-you-Throw trash rates; Bundling of recyclables collection with trash collection, instead of as an extra- service/extra-cost option; Hauler to provide written reports to City on volumes of trash deposited at landfill, and volumes of recyclables deposited at MRF; City to provide collection bins for recyclables;