Finance Committee Page 5
June 1, 2016
garbage collection is (inaudible) so the city supports it to the tune of several million dollars per year so an
inflow of cash is required to operate the enterprise fund as a whole. | think the landfill is a stand-alone basis
without collection and does operate on a basically break even basis and maybe this could be covered in that
manner but to answer your question fully | would really need to think about it.
Alderman Clemons
Would it harm us to hold this until the next Finance Committee meeting?
Mr. Kooken
There wouldn’t be a problem holding it until the next meeting but that budget still won’t be...
Alderman Clemons
Yes, but my point is that we will have answers to my questions.
Mayor Donchess
Is there any indication that we would lose the bid by not awarding it now? I’m not sure that it is contingent but |
can talk through the situation so if you held it | don’t think it would be the end of the world.
Alderman Siegel
That’s where the money is coming from, next year’s budget. It’s a contract award anticipating the budget being
approved so it wouldn’t matter anyway. You can say it here or not but it has to be held until the budget is
approved because the money won't get freed up so there’s no harm in holding it.
Alderman O’Brien
| do have one concern, you said that we may be able to store this and that may very well be true but if the
recyclables had a form of (inaudible) product in it and it depends upon where the storage is, could we be
getting into another type of situation with the warm weather and having raw trash or vermin incidents that may
come with this as well.
Mayor Donchess
| was really just speculating about what we could do and | was thinking about a very temporary situation.
Long-term storage would not be optional but maybe short-term would.
Alderman Cookson
So we are tabling this until the June 15™ meeting?
Mayor Donchess
Correct.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN CLEMONS TO TABLE UNTIL THE NEXT FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
MOTION CARRIED
Mayor Donchess
The next item regarding the Wildlife Management Service Agreement has been withdrawn for the time being.
