Finance Committee - 02/05/2020 Page 5
One of the things that he mentioned that | thought was really interested is that not only is he doing this
educating people but also employing people within the community, a lot of times maybe they don’t speak the
language, that kind of thing. This is a really good job for them to be able to do. So | look to that part of his
mission as well.
Alderman Laws
| think it’s great also and thank you Alderman Kelly for spearheading this or whatever. It’s worth mentioning |
imagine, Mr., Kooken, a blue book value of $5,000.00, we wouldn’t get that if we were to sell this truck. So it is
not like we are taking $5,000.00 off the profit.
Dan Kooken
Probably not, we wanted to give an honest evaluation, but if we put on auction, you probably wouldn’t see
$5,000.00, we’d see somewhat less than that.
Alderman Laws
| think it is a great idea regardless, but in case anybody was worried about that.
Alderman Klee
Alderwoman Kelly you had mentioned about a pay for it, so does that mean that when they pick up the
composting and so on, the person donating also pays for it to be picked up, is that correct. Is that what you
meant by pay for it?
Alderwoman Kelly
Yes, so you know, the initial thought was how do we get this so that City people can get access to composting
and this is in place but | think it’s $25.00 a month or $30.00 a month.
Mayor Donchess
It’s $25.00 a month.
Alderwoman Kelly
| have some videos on that but | think that for now just the ability for him to expand. You say in his letter how
much they’ve been able to do with just one truck, 60,000 pounds has pulled out.
Alderman Klee
Yes it says 60,000 pounds per year to over 200,000 pounds per year they are going to be able to do.
Alderwoman Kelly
| think it would be awesome if we could do composting citywide; we are not there yet. He’s saying that with
this donation he can expand from 60,000 to 200,000. So | think it’s a pretty good bang for a buck in terms of
investing in a non-profit in the area and helping with the waste.
Alderman O’Brien
Yes as Mr. Caggiano can probably say, I’m all about repurposing vehicles particularly for this worthwhile
cause. But! want to thank you in particular for supplying this committee pictures of the vehicle.
