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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Visionaries,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tim Davis, City of Moscow Sanitation Operation Manager, will be at this month’s Sustainable Environment Committee meeting to discuss the cart system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The meeting is Tuesday, January 15, 7:15 @ City Hall, first floor Mayor’s meeting room.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please attend and provide input.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Andy Boyd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Manager/Education Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Moscow Recycling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>208 882 0590<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Donovan Arnold<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 08, 2013 8:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> Tom Hansen; Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Moscow City Council is talking trash<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>I'd just dump all my trash on Council member <span class=mark>Carscallen's</span> lawn and let him figure out what to do with it. Based on the legislation he votes for, he likes trash. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Donovan J. Arnold<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:08 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Moscow City Council is talking trash</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv952330758><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Courtesy of today's (January 8, 2013) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks to Bill London.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>-------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Moscow City Council is talking trash</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>The council wants to make all of us use new upscale lidded and wheeled trash cans. That's OK with me. The problem is how the council wants us to pay for trash pickup.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>We now have a volume-based billing system. The more you waste, the more you pay. And if you waste only small amounts (relying on careful purchasing and committed recycling), you are rewarded with the cheapest rate of all - what they call the tag-it-all option. That's the option my family chose. We pay the $10.15 basic rate that every Moscow household pays, but we do not pay for the trash cans used weekly. Instead we pay $1.70 to buy green tags to place on our trash can when we do place it on the curb. Since we place our trash can out every 3 to 5 weeks, we save about $4 monthly over the single-trash-can rate.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Saving $4 a month ($50 a year) isn't a big deal, but it is a real economic incentive to both buy with a goal of less waste and to recycle whatever you can.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>It's that incentive to recycle that the council is planning to eliminate. Their present plan is to kill the tag-it-all option. Please join me in contacting the city council members to make sure we keep the tag-it-all option.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='color:black'>Bill London</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;float:none'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Moscow<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'>-------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=mark><span style='color:black'>Seeya</span></span><span style='color:black'> round town, Moscow, because . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>"Moscow Cares"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>serving the communities of the <span class=mark>Palouse</span> since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net/</a><br> <span class=mark>mailto</span>:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>