City Council Study Session Summary 2017 04 11

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City Council Study Session Summary April 11, 2017 Page 3 of 4 • Ongoing communications plans Council members Stolzmann and Lipton do not like the idea of a lot of bid alternates because they want to be able to compare bids. Large item pickup is not well promoted. Council member Loo said she thinks people love the large pickup item. A policy on which special events the City provides solid waste services for needs to be clarified. Council member Stolzmann does not want special events billed to only City Western customers; thinks it should be spread community wide. Council member Lipton said the City should share resources for signs and containers to use at events to encourage zero waste. Policies Council may want to consider updating the code to: • Include composting in the code section to reflect the contract the City has (code is silent on composting) • Require HOAs to provide composting • Require annual reporting by multifamily, commercial and industrial haulers • Require recycling for multifamily, commercial and industrial There was discussion of compelling or requiring haulers to provide information on total weight of trash, composting, and recycling in HOA, multifamily and commercial. Mayor said perhaps a restaurant would like to be part of a pilot program on recycling and composting. It would be helpful to know which groups are recycling and what are the numbers. Kowar needs time to talk to the Sustainability Advisory Board. Fund fees Staff will also be recommending an increase to admin fee and yard waste fee. A bag ban was discussed, small campaign ie: hand out reusable bags. Why just bags? Why not cardboard too such as cardboard curbside pickup or cardboard drop-off. Council member Stolzmann would like to add a discussion of cardboard. She would like the City to provide incentives to encourage people to act responsibly. Kowar discussed the 2016 Waste Composition Study slides and said composting is where there is opportunity for expansion and the City should provide additional outreach. On the May 2nd Council agenda, the fee setting item will be presented. The other topics will be discussed in July. Composting is less energy intensive that putting food down the disposal.