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Director Fauteux
Yes it is.
Mr. Richardson So the clock is ticking and that’s a cost.
Paula Johnson 15 Westborn Drive. Question on the landfill. How come and I’ve thought about questioning
this | think for years. How much does it cost to get a sticker to go into a landfill?
Director Fauteux
For residents?
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The reason that we need to subsidize is because there are really three profit centers. There’s the
Recycling Center, there’s Collections and then there’s the landfill, ok? All of those are within Solid Waste.
If we were trying to run the Recycling Center as a true Recycling Center, in other words we didn’t charge
$5.00 for a permit and took everything else in for free, if we were charging for everything and we were
operating the landfill then the taxpayers probably would not have to subsidize. OK? But because
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Mayor Donchess
| was an Alderman. There were some projections given which turned out not to be true or accurate, let’s
put it that way. So what has happened is several acres, 2 or 3 acres were subdivided off of the Burke Street
property and added to the treatment plant property area so that if this phosphorus treatment is required,
there would be room to accomplish that. And there is a closing, the purchase price was not $4.5 it was
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Mr. Teeboom And bond things are — the purpose of that is to spread the costs over 20 years or 30 years.
So | still don’t understand. Is there a single line item that made that made this thing go up $7.8 million
dollars.
Director Fauteux
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Mayor Donchess
Mr. Boucher is here. Now he hasn't been here the entire 6 years so Ms. Fauteux will come up as well.
Mr. Teeboom Well | hope he knows how to spell CSO.
Mayor Donchess
He does, he knows how to spell it, he wishes he didn’t but he does.
Mr. Teeboom So the question is when the 6 year average for Fiscal ’16 to Fiscal 22 was a 6.9% over six
years. Why is it suddenly (inaudible) to go a long time. She’s been gone for decades, why is now 38.7%.
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Chairman Dowd
Excuse me, is there a budget...
Ms. McKinney Had our pharmacy workers decided not to show up.
Chairman Dowd
Excuse me, is there a budget related question because you are talking of things that are controlled by the
School Department and the Board of Education.
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Chairman Dowd
We will move on to Community Development Division, Department 153 Building Inspection; 155 Code
Enforcement; 170 Waterways Hydraulic Operations; 181 Community Development; 182 Planning & Zoning;
184 Urban Programs and 186 Transportation. Are there any questions? Seeing none we will go on to
Education — Department 191 Schools.
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Director Fauteux
Well there may have been a few exceptions where we may have been working remotely but by and large,
yes we were there.
Ms. Johnson Everybody was there. And why was last year winter, the streets weren’t plowed as well.
Chairman Dowd
Your time is up and you have asked more than one question.
Director Fauteux
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going rogue and reaching out to gender identities like non-binary and | don’t even want to begin to list them
all, it’s ridiculous. And | am just very disappointed to see how this Department is being run. And especially
now, we’ve lost our CERT Team. This is a travesty. Thank you.
Chairman Dowd
OK we will move on to the Public Works Division. That's Department 160 Public Works, Administration,
Engineering; 161 is Street Department; and 177 Parks & Rec.
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Chairman Dowd
No.
Ms. Scaer They are completely not helping at all. OK. Sounds like a great loss for the City. | am sorry to
hear that but glad to hear more.
Justin Kates, Emergency Management Director
