WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.520 Okay, good morning and welcome to the Public Utility Board's meeting for the City of Denton 00:00:08.520 --> 00:00:13.120 of Monday, February 13, 2023, hard to believe, isn't it? 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:18.960 I'd like to welcome our newest member, Thomas Plock, welcome. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:23.520 We try to do things as quick as possible and get everybody out of here as quick as possible, 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:28.080 and that is our goal. 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:34.000 The first item is presentation from members of the public, are there any? 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.960 You guys look like you work here. 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:36.960 Okay. 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:43.320 We'll move on to the consent agenda, would any members like to pull any items for discussion? 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:53.320 If not, we'll entertain a motion to approve, sorry, so moved, all right, A, B, C, and D, 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:54.320 way to go Lee. 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.760 I have a second, Thomas, would you like to have your first second? 00:00:58.760 --> 00:00:59.760 I second. 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:01.720 He seconds it. 00:01:01.720 --> 00:01:03.720 All those in favor, please say aye. 00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:04.720 Aye. 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:05.720 Any opposed? 00:01:05.720 --> 00:01:06.720 None. 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:20.920 Now, we will consider approval to January 23, 23 minutes, so moved, kind of motion. 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:22.720 All those in favor, please say aye. 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:23.720 Aye. 00:01:23.720 --> 00:01:24.720 Okay. 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:29.160 Now, I would like to nominate Devin Taylor as the substitute chair for this next item 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:30.520 because I have to recuse myself. 00:01:30.520 --> 00:01:33.480 I move to approve, second. 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:34.480 All right. 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:35.480 Move. 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:36.480 Move. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:37.480 On the substitute. 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:38.480 On the substitute. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:39.480 No, aye. 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:40.480 Call the vote. 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:41.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:42.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:43.480 Aye. 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:44.480 Sorry. 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:45.480 I'm sorry. 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:46.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:47.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:48.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:49.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:50.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:51.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:52.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:53.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:54.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:55.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:56.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:57.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:58.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:58.480 --> 00:01:59.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:00.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:01.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:02.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:03.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:04.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:05.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:06.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:07.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:08.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:09.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:09.480 --> 00:02:10.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:10.480 --> 00:02:11.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:12.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:13.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:13.480 --> 00:02:14.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:15.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:24.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:25.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:26.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:26.480 --> 00:02:27.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:27.480 --> 00:02:28.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:29.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:30.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:31.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:32.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:32.480 --> 00:02:33.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:34.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:34.480 --> 00:02:35.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:35.480 --> 00:02:36.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:37.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:38.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:39.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:40.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:41.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:42.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:43.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:43.480 --> 00:02:44.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:45.480 All those in favor, say aye. 00:02:53.480 --> 00:03:01.440 The scope of the work is full-depth street reconstruction, including curb and gutter. 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:04.880 There's limited sidewalk improvements, and then these are the street segments that you 00:03:04.880 --> 00:03:08.920 see before you for the overall project. 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:11.300 We received five proposals. 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:15.960 This was advertised as a competitive seal proposal, a CSP. 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:22.040 We had five proposals with Jago Public Company coming up on top with just over a not-to-exceed 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:25.680 amount of $3.7 million. 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:31.040 The schedule for this project, it's 100 percent design documents were completed in Q4 of 2022. 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:38.280 Project bidding is Q1, 2023, with construction initiation and we're looking at Q2, 2023, 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:43.920 with a final completion of 270 days. 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:47.360 With this, staff recommends an approval of a contract between the City of Denton and 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:52.440 Jago Public Company and a not-to-exceed amount of just over $3.7 million. 00:03:52.440 --> 00:03:56.080 I don't take any questions. 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.680 Thank you, Chair. 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:03.680 When you say limited sidewalk construction, you're just talking about repairing what's 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.360 there or are we going to be adding any? 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:07.360 Repairing what's there. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:08.360 Okay. 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:09.360 Not adding any? 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:10.360 Correct. 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:11.360 Okay. 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:12.360 Great. 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:13.360 Thank you. 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:17.640 Any questions on the evaluation page? 00:04:17.640 --> 00:04:24.520 I was curious the way the evaluation numbering works out. 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:28.280 Is that something that a committee of persons does or are you responsible for that or how 00:04:28.280 --> 00:04:29.280 does that work? 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:30.280 It's done by committee. 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:31.280 Okay. 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:32.640 And how many members are on the committee? 00:04:32.640 --> 00:04:33.640 Five. 00:04:33.640 --> 00:04:34.640 Five. 00:04:34.640 --> 00:04:38.160 And they're primarily people from your department or from other city agencies or how does that 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:39.160 work? 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:44.000 I guess so. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:45.800 All right. 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:46.800 Good morning, board members. 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.000 Seth Garcia, program manager with Capital Projects. 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.520 Yeah, so typically we have five members. 00:04:51.520 --> 00:04:54.800 Normally three of those members are from our department, so either program managers such 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.560 as myself or other project managers. 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.760 And then we typically get two of these stakeholders. 00:05:00.760 --> 00:05:05.760 So we had a representative from street department as well as a representative from utilities 00:05:05.760 --> 00:05:08.840 that sit on the evaluation committee as well. 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:09.840 Okay. 00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:15.120 And so everybody scores per this sheet based on the information that you receive? 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:16.120 That is correct. 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.480 And so the only piece that we don't score is the pricing. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.960 That's done by purchasing through an algorithm. 00:05:21.960 --> 00:05:26.360 But the rest of the scores are the average of the five committee member scores. 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:27.360 Okay. 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.560 Well, I mean, clearly the winning company had the lowest price and in addition had the 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:32.560 highest score. 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:33.960 So that's a pretty easy call. 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:34.960 Correct. 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:35.960 Yeah. 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:39.160 And we had pricing that was 60%. 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:42.200 By law, we can go down to 40%. 00:05:42.200 --> 00:05:47.040 So with the simplicity of this project, we felt pricing should be significantly higher 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:52.800 than normal for the CSPs just because it was a pretty simple straightforward project. 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:57.120 So this was one we really were looking at one of the lower prices. 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:58.120 Okay. 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:05.200 The thing that caught my eye was the things like key personnel, quality, ability to compete, 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:07.200 similar projects, so on and so forth. 00:06:07.200 --> 00:06:12.400 And the way the scoring went on that and then the way the pricing went, it was like it was 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:16.720 almost flipped over, if that makes sense. 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:17.720 Right. 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.420 So let's see. 00:06:20.420 --> 00:06:25.320 So key personnel, what we kind of ask for in that specific category is the personnel 00:06:25.320 --> 00:06:27.800 proposed specifically for this project. 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.760 So we're looking at superintendents, foremen. 00:06:30.760 --> 00:06:35.800 Some of the things that the evaluation members look at is time with the firm, how much time 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.840 are they actually allocating to the specific project. 00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:39.840 Exactly. 00:06:39.840 --> 00:06:44.440 So it can be a little bit subjective per evaluation member. 00:06:44.440 --> 00:06:48.360 So for instance, those are things that I look for is do we have a project manager that's 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:53.320 been with the company for one year or 10 years, and kind of the history with that. 00:06:53.320 --> 00:06:54.500 So those are things. 00:06:54.500 --> 00:06:58.800 So it is a little bit subjective within there, but like I said, it is an average of all five 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:00.920 evaluates. 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:01.920 Okay. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.200 Again, the price was obvious, so it wasn't really a problem. 00:07:04.200 --> 00:07:08.320 Ed had the highest overall score, so that seemed like an easy call, but I was just curious. 00:07:08.320 --> 00:07:09.520 It's something I've wondered about. 00:07:09.520 --> 00:07:11.240 You've shown us these many times. 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.080 I've never really quite understood the background behind it. 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:15.080 So thank you. 00:07:15.080 --> 00:07:16.080 Yes, sir. 00:07:16.080 --> 00:07:17.080 Not a problem. 00:07:17.080 --> 00:07:21.800 Any other questions? 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:23.040 So I have one last question. 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:28.320 I keep bringing it up and I'm hoping we can get it eventually added to the slide deck. 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:31.700 The limited sidewalk work, where is that? 00:07:31.700 --> 00:07:32.700 What is that? 00:07:32.700 --> 00:07:33.700 Is it reconstruction? 00:07:33.700 --> 00:07:34.920 Is it any extensions? 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:39.420 Just on that map where you showed, sometimes there are like four colors on the map. 00:07:39.420 --> 00:07:45.520 These are reading road only, these are getting utilities, if it's possible to add the layer 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:50.360 of sidewalks, like what areas will be getting sidewalk work in those spots? 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:51.360 Understood, yeah. 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.000 I believe it's reconstruction. 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:59.160 I do believe there is a portion here that's being taken out and replaced and then other 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:04.960 places that are deemed not suitable that were in the project area based on aging and current 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:05.960 conditions. 00:08:05.960 --> 00:08:06.960 Right, yeah. 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:10.720 And I think this neighborhood is maybe a little more straightforward than some of the other 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:13.760 ones where it varies block to block a lot. 00:08:13.760 --> 00:08:19.480 So, like I said, if possible, we could start adding that in as a layer of what the work 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:20.480 is. 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:21.480 Yeah. 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:23.200 All right. 00:08:23.200 --> 00:08:26.400 Seeing no other discussion, consider a motion. 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:27.400 Second. 00:08:27.400 --> 00:08:28.400 Ryan McLean. 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:29.400 Second. 00:08:29.400 --> 00:08:30.400 Larry Beck seconds. 00:08:30.400 --> 00:08:33.240 All in favor, say aye. 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:34.240 Aye. 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:35.240 Opposed? 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:52.760 Now, we'll call back in our chair. 00:08:52.760 --> 00:09:04.600 Okay, Thomas, do you want to tell us a little bit about yourself? 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:05.600 I'm sorry. 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.720 I meant to do that earlier. 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:08.720 Yeah. 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:10.720 My name is Thomas Plotk. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.960 I recently moved to Denton about two years ago. 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:19.080 Prior to that, I lived in the central Texas region in Bell County, assisted in various 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:20.600 capacities in Bell County. 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:24.000 Currently, I work with Thomson Reuters and Legal Cells. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:25.880 Welcome aboard. 00:09:25.880 --> 00:09:26.880 Okay. 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:34.520 We'll move on to item C for individual consideration, which is management reports. 00:09:34.520 --> 00:09:35.520 That's you, Tony? 00:09:35.520 --> 00:09:36.520 Yes, sir. 00:09:36.520 --> 00:09:41.680 So, Mr. Chair, members of the board, the first item that we have for you is an update from 00:09:41.680 --> 00:09:44.960 solid waste on a comprehensive diversion ordinance. 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:46.920 You received that in your backup. 00:09:46.920 --> 00:09:49.320 I see that Mr. Eugene McKinney's here. 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.920 If anyone has any questions, he'd be happy to go through that for you. 00:09:52.920 --> 00:09:53.920 All right. 00:09:53.920 --> 00:09:56.920 I'm glad to see what we're working on now. 00:09:56.920 --> 00:09:57.920 Eugene will come on. 00:09:57.920 --> 00:09:58.920 Good morning. 00:09:58.920 --> 00:09:59.920 Good morning. 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:00.920 Good morning. 00:10:00.920 --> 00:10:01.920 Good morning. 00:10:01.920 --> 00:10:08.480 My name is Eugene McKinney, I'm Deputy Director of Solid Waste and Recycling. 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:09.480 How can I help this morning? 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:10.480 Yes, sir. 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:11.480 I have a question. 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:16.240 I noticed on the timeline for this ordinance that we're going to get a work session on 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:22.840 the 27th of March, which would be our last meeting before the City Council gets a chance 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:23.840 to look at it. 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:28.200 I would like to see this, if at all possible, even if in draft form, the meeting before 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:29.840 that, so two weeks prior. 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.520 You'd like to see it two weeks prior? 00:10:31.520 --> 00:10:32.520 Yes, sir. 00:10:32.520 --> 00:10:33.520 OK. 00:10:33.520 --> 00:10:34.520 I think we can accommodate that request. 00:10:34.520 --> 00:10:35.520 Just an overview. 00:10:35.520 --> 00:10:36.520 Where are we at? 00:10:36.520 --> 00:10:39.640 Where does the draft look like so that we're able to get a little sense of it before it 00:10:39.640 --> 00:10:44.680 actually arrives here for us to say to the board, yes, please do this. 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:45.680 Absolutely. 00:10:45.680 --> 00:10:46.680 I believe we can accommodate that request. 00:10:46.680 --> 00:10:47.680 That was it. 00:10:47.680 --> 00:10:48.680 Thank you. 00:10:48.680 --> 00:10:49.680 Yes, sir. 00:10:49.680 --> 00:10:50.680 Mr. Beck. 00:10:50.680 --> 00:10:51.680 Thank you. 00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:52.680 Just curious. 00:10:52.680 --> 00:11:00.280 You mentioned that a percentage of the commercial enterprises were working with the city on 00:11:00.280 --> 00:11:06.240 their recyclables or they had third party individuals, but that left a lot of people 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:07.240 who didn't have anybody. 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:13.120 So I'm assuming that the recyclables went to just trash as landfills, is that correct? 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:19.440 And that will be a fair assessment, and part of this process will identify those where 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:24.000 they have nothing that's going to trash to kind of pull that out of the trash and find 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:30.560 a source, i.e., a Pratt facility or a third party processing. 00:11:30.560 --> 00:11:35.600 So part of this process will help identify those who don't have anything and provide 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:36.600 something. 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:41.920 So I'm assuming the goal here will be to get those people on the straight and narrow path 00:11:41.920 --> 00:11:44.320 of recycling their stuff one way or another. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:45.320 Absolutely. 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:49.440 Because when you talk about diversion, and we know the customers that we service and 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:54.880 some of the third parties, but the question mark becomes the other products that's out 00:11:54.880 --> 00:11:55.880 there, where is it going? 00:11:55.880 --> 00:11:56.880 Yeah. 00:11:56.880 --> 00:12:00.040 We like to account for all of that because all of that fits into our diversion strategy. 00:12:00.040 --> 00:12:01.040 Okay. 00:12:01.040 --> 00:12:02.040 Good deal. 00:12:02.040 --> 00:12:03.040 Thank you. 00:12:03.040 --> 00:12:12.720 So I read the article in the paper, of course, the paper online or whatever, but it looks 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:20.760 like you guys are headed towards a mandatory recycling program for a commercial company's 00:12:20.760 --> 00:12:21.760 businesses. 00:12:21.760 --> 00:12:28.440 You know, when you go into, you know, on the municipal side, when you start saying mandatory, 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:30.200 we want to strongly encourage. 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:31.200 Yeah. 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:32.200 It's about the environment, right? 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:33.200 It's about landfill space. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.820 There's so many things that's involved. 00:12:35.820 --> 00:12:40.480 But we believe that a lot of these items that are being disposed of has a natural recycling 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:41.480 process, right? 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:44.920 That's through some bio that we can put in our astride landfill, but the other products, 00:12:44.920 --> 00:12:50.620 there's a processing for the third life, first life, second life, third life. 00:12:50.620 --> 00:12:53.360 So we strongly, strongly encourage. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:54.360 Very good. 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:55.360 I think it's a good idea. 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:56.360 I appreciate it. 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.720 I know it's going to be very difficult to enforce or move forward. 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:02.720 Yeah. 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:09.360 So, you know, even that, when we say enforce, from the customer perspective, right, compliance, 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:10.360 they love compliance. 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:11.360 How do we comply? 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.200 You know, how do we help you all comply? 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:18.120 You know, it's about the approach, right? 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:22.200 You know, I say it often within the department, it's honey or vinegar, right? 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.800 We want to use some honey here to draw those customers and get their buy-in from the community. 00:13:26.800 --> 00:13:28.400 Get some education going. 00:13:28.400 --> 00:13:29.400 Absolutely. 00:13:29.400 --> 00:13:30.400 You bet. 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:31.400 Thank you. 00:13:31.400 --> 00:13:32.400 Anybody else? 00:13:32.400 --> 00:13:33.400 Kevin? 00:13:33.400 --> 00:13:34.400 I look forward to seeing the draft. 00:13:34.400 --> 00:13:35.400 I'm really curious. 00:13:35.400 --> 00:13:39.520 I think, you know, Peter Biltz and Tetra PACS already have programs. 00:13:39.520 --> 00:13:43.480 All they're going to do is give us their reports, you know? 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:49.680 The small businesses, I think, will be the ones where they lack the infrastructure or 00:13:49.680 --> 00:13:54.800 the administrative capacity to go find a third party or perhaps they don't think they have 00:13:54.800 --> 00:13:56.800 room for a recycling dumpster or something like that. 00:13:56.800 --> 00:14:02.480 And those are the ones where I think we need to help them comply, right? 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:06.760 Give them, you know, the reason our recycling rate for residential, like everybody gets 00:14:06.760 --> 00:14:07.880 a residential cart. 00:14:07.880 --> 00:14:08.880 Every house. 00:14:08.880 --> 00:14:09.880 Every cart. 00:14:09.880 --> 00:14:10.880 You have a blue cart. 00:14:10.880 --> 00:14:16.280 And not everybody has to use it, but just having it there creates an education, creates 00:14:16.280 --> 00:14:18.280 the opportunity for use, that kind of thing. 00:14:18.280 --> 00:14:23.960 I know a lot of small businesses on old buildings with limited dumpster space, you know, we 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:29.160 might need some creative solutions on the -- to provide them the infrastructure they 00:14:29.160 --> 00:14:30.160 need. 00:14:30.160 --> 00:14:31.160 But I do look forward to the plan. 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:34.400 I think this is a great step in the right direction. 00:14:34.400 --> 00:14:37.880 And we understand that infrastructure is going to be a challenge for some of the smaller 00:14:37.880 --> 00:14:38.880 businesses, right? 00:14:38.880 --> 00:14:39.880 So, you know, we're here. 00:14:39.880 --> 00:14:40.880 We're partners, right? 00:14:40.880 --> 00:14:41.880 We're community partners. 00:14:41.880 --> 00:14:42.880 We'll work with them. 00:14:42.880 --> 00:14:47.160 You know, container sizes, carts, whatever, whatever would -- we want to sit down and 00:14:47.160 --> 00:14:56.320 talk and kind of work these things out to come to that, you know, that agreeable solution. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:57.320 Thank you all. 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:58.320 >> Thank you. 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.320 >> Thank you. 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:00.320 >> All right. 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:06.640 So, going on to the next item that we included was feature agenda, a matrix, where you have 00:15:06.640 --> 00:15:13.960 a couple of items coming up for you, principally, just wanted to put on here the dates of budgetary 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:14.960 related items. 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:18.920 Certainly, Nick Benson is here if you guys have any questions regarding those. 00:15:18.920 --> 00:15:23.560 But hopefully, they'll kind of plan out for you over the next coming months what may be 00:15:23.560 --> 00:15:24.560 coming in the agenda. 00:15:24.560 --> 00:15:27.160 If you see a blank there, it doesn't mean that there's nothing on the agenda. 00:15:27.160 --> 00:15:28.480 There'll be plenty on the agenda. 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.840 These are just items that we've tried to highlight for you. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:36.000 And then the final item is just the new business action items. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:41.740 As you can see on here, we've completed three of the items that were on there for some time. 00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:47.440 And then we did have, at the last meeting, Mr. Ryback did request some additional information. 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.840 I think he's spoken with Becky and Steven, and they're working on that. 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:55.840 And we'll be planning to bring that back to you in a work session or a memo. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.560 They'll have that information back to you, hopefully, for the next meeting. 00:15:58.560 --> 00:16:00.800 So with that, that concludes the manager report. 00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:02.440 Happy to answer any questions you have. 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:08.160 If there's something new that you'd like to add, just let us know. 00:16:08.160 --> 00:16:16.840 Nothing yet, other than Mr. Ryback's request, which was a good request to get a little headstart 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:23.400 on the Solid Waste program. 00:16:23.400 --> 00:16:29.000 So since I usually do this, who's going to entertain a motion? 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.720 I'm going to be adjourned, all right. 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:34.720 All those in favor? 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:35.720 Aye. 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:37.240 That was quick. 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.240 Adjournment just requires a second, right? 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:40.240 I can really-- 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:41.240 I can adjourn it. 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:42.240 You can actually adjourn as the chair. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:43.240 It's just more fun, this one. 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:43.240 [AUDIO OUT]