Finance Committee - 8/2/2017 Page 19
Alderman Wilshire
| Know this has always been a topic at least with the last administration and | about when do we replace them.
| think some of the cost is for the regular trash toters, not all of it. As you said, a majority might be for the
recycling toters. | know they do have to replace them at some point. My trash bin was quite old. | don’t’ know
when they started the program.
Alderman Caron
In ’03.
Alderman Wilshire
They do have an end of life. | imagine that some of this cost is to replace ones that are out there. I’ve seen
some toters on the street that have been chewed by squirrels. They must have a feeding frenzy. So of this
has to be replacement as well | assume.
Mayor Donchess
My top broke off and they came and they replaced it. They’re very frugal. They didn’t try to give me a new
toter they just came and replaced the top. They’re running and efficient, effective replacement operation.
Alderman Cookson
Can we just information from the Superintendent. More detailed information about the demand, the quantities,
the breakout between trash and recyclable. That would be helpful. I’m not going to hold this up this evening.
I’d like that information. Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Have you bought your toter?
Alderman Cookson
Absolutely. | use my recyclable toter more than my trash. There are some weeks that | don’t even have to
take the trash bin to the road because the toter and my compost bin is being utilized more than household
trash.
Alderman Wilshire
| do have to say that | do live in a condo complex now and they don’t recycle. | really don’t like that. | know
there was some discussion in the past about getting apartment complexes, condo complexes. I’d love to see
that happen. | think we should. | think at some point we should have everyone in the city recycle. Just wanted
to throw that out there. | miss my green recycling bin. | Know | can still take it to the landfill but it’s not quite
the same as getting it picked up.
Mayor Donchess
Well that came up on Saturday. We could get into what happened. We did have a Recycling Committee if you
remember. It kind of got derailed. Its’ a long story. That came up on Saturday. So we’re going to try to initiate
that discussion. It may not be possible for the city to ever go in and do — it really isn’t going to be possible to
do curbside recycling throughout all the condos but it may be possible to set up a central location where
everybody could deposit their stuff and the city would pick up periodically. One of the residents of Ward 7 who
showed up on Saturday at coffee, it's someone I’m sure you’re familiar with who raised it and | said okay we'll
