Finance Committee - 6/6/2018 Page 11
Alderman Laws
We are recycling glass, cardboard and plastic correct? Or glass, paper, plastic? Is it possible that we eliminate
one of those and put it in the landfill and ask our citizens to only recycle the other two? That way we save
more money on weight?
Mr. Lafleur
Absolutely. And that is one of the things that we are talking about, Director Fauteux she is having some
meetings right now. She is going to talk it over with the Mayor and we are just trying to figure out when the
right time is to pull the trigger on that. If the markets ever turned around, where we may make money again
which isn’t in the foreseeable future, we may want the glass in there for the weight. The markets are kind of
funky that way. Right now we don’t want the glass in there and again that will be a meeting that we will have a
discussion with the Mayor and then we will start working on communications out to the public to eliminate that.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you. My question was actually his but then you talked to it, so | wanted to know if that is the first step
that you are thinking from a contingency standpoint, is removing the glass, or do you have other....?
Mr. Lafleur
That is our heaviest part of the recycling right now is the glass and as was stated in some of the articles and
communications through the news, the glass is actually getting land-filled right now. So it would be the best
thing for us to do right away.
Alderwoman Kelly
So that would be step one?
Mr. Lafleur
Yes. Yes.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Electronic Recycling (Value: Not-To-Exceed $75,000)
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND, CONTINGENT UPON BOARD
OF ALDERMEN APPROVAL, AWARD THE CONTRACT TO UNIVERSAL RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES,
LLC, AT AN ANNUAL COST NOT TO EXCEED $75,000. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 168,
SOLID WASTE
ON THE QUESTION
Mr. Lafleur
This contract will be with our current vendor, URT, they came back with a bid that was very favorable. We did
some calculations on the numbers of materials that came in last year, computers, flat screen TV’s and other
electrical components and if everything were to stay the same, we’d actually make out just a little bit better
