Finance Committee - 8/2/2017 Page 18
Dan Kooken
| can check it out and let you know.
Mayor Donchess
This was discussed in some detail at the Board of Public Works.
Alderman Cookson
The discussion here doesn’t do me any favors. | can’t read anything within this discussion that makes me lean
one way or the other. I’m glad that you’re focusing on recycling because | think that is going to be helpful for
the city. | think more people are recycling. Again | don’t know what the breakout is between the recycle bins
or if it’s important to know what that breakout is.
Dan Kooken
They do run them in max on this. | Know that they let them run down pretty low before they repurchase
because the truckload is a significant quantity. Typically when we get the request in they usually order them
pretty quickly now.
Alderman Cookson
Where do we store them at the landfill?
Mayor Donchess
Yes. | think at the Public Works Mr. Lafleur said he’s got like a 2 or 3 week supply left. He doesn’t have that
much.
Alderman Cookson
But we’ve got the space to keep or maintain these until they’re purchased?
Mayor Donchess
Correct.
Alderman Cookson
| think there are a lot of people within the city that already have a trash bin or already have a recycle bin. Do
we know how many residents within the city have recycle bins? This has got to be based on supply and
demand. We can’t continue to purchase this same quantity of recycle bins with the expectation that they’re all
going to be sold. At some point in time, the city is going to be saturated and the demand is not going to be
there any longer. So do we know what the demand is?
Mayor Donchess
Well we know what the potential going on is. We can get these exact numbers but | think around 6,000 are out
but we have like 23,000 houses or whatever. There’s a potential demand that’s significant and they continue
to sell. In the end not every household is going to buy one but given the number of houses that don’t’ have
them and the number that they’re selling, the demand is still significant.
