Finance Committee - 03/04/2020 Page 15
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Contract for Single Stream Recycling — Amendment #2 — Two Year Extension (Value: Not-To-
Exceed $400,000) Department: 168 Solid Waste; Fund: Solid Waste
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AUTHORIZE
AMENDMENT #2 FOR SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING - TWO YEAR EXTENSION - IN THE AMOUNT OF
$400,000 TO CASELLA RECYCLING LLC. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 168 SOLID
WASTE; FUND: SOLID WASTE
ON THE QUESTION
Mr. LaFleur
Thank you again, Jeff LaFleur, Superintendent of Solid Waste. This is the extension to the contract for the
single stream recycling. | have done some research looking around and it seems like we have a very fair
agreement with Casella right now. In fact to the extent that if we were to go out to bid, we may not have
anyone else bid on the project because the pricing is so high. The Director and | actually sat down with the
members of the company and discussed the options with them and we feel very comfortable at where we are
at right now and we’d like to extend it for two more years.
We don’t see any changes in the markets, | mean they are going up and down, but very little. So there isn’t
really great hope with recycling, so | think this is the best option for us right now.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you, at the meeting the other night, being the liaison to Public Works you did discuss that we are doing
something with the glass which is one of the highest weight in order to ship that out, Casella could probably
have it and could you explain that we are getting some benefit back and what we are using the glass for?
Mr. LaFleur
Yes absolutely, we started taking glass from Casella at $16.00 a ton to help offset the cost of recycling. As you
know last year we had to ask for an amendment to the contract for $120,000.00. This year we don’t foresee
having to ask for any extra cash on that by us taking the glass in. The glass is actually being used in our
setback where we need to have hundreds of thousands of yards of backfill material. DES gave us the approval
to use that back there. So | took the opportunity to start taking in more glass to help off set the cost of
recycling. | also went to DES and we got glass approved as a daily cover, so | can take in a little bit more
glass to cover our trash; | have to cover trash every day, 6 inches of cover material over it, the glass is an
acceptable cover material now. So that is helping us out with the offset for the recycling.
Alderman Klee
Thank you. | kind of mentioned to you prior to this meeting that up in the State House they are looking at
pulling out the glass and as you mentioned that for and with the mandate for DOT to be using it in the streets
and so on. When we talked, | guess | am still questioning, we are not separating the glass here? Is Casella
separating it and then brings it back, is that how that would work?
Mr. LaFleur
That’s correct.
Alderman Klee
So we are still doing the single stream?
