<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type></HEAD>
<BODY dir=ltr bgColor=#ffffff text=#000000>
<DIV dir=ltr>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<DIV>I believe that Antone Holmquist’s message (below) helps summarize and
advance the discussion on the future of Moscow’s trash pickup changes. I
am sending it to V2020 with his permission</DIV>
<DIV>BL</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"></DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">To
the Council,<BR> While generally supportive of the proposed
roll cart garbage system, I have some concerns and comments.
<BR> A major plus of any roll cart system with attached lids
is the expected lessening of garbage cans and garbage rolling around the city in
windy conditions! <BR> I rent out a small apartment in
my 120 year home near the Hospital. With the present system I pay two base
fees. $20.30/month. This, despite the fact that my tenant and I put
out little garbage, most weeks zero. With the new system will I be
required to pay for two roll carts? If so, even at the smallest size at
the proposed rate, I would pay $35.30/month, which is an estimated $12 more per
month than I pay now, even factoring in the occasional tags I
purchase. Not fair. It should be an option to rent one roll cart,
even if the city considers your home a "duplex". <BR>
Here's one way to look at the proposed fees:<BR>35 gallon
cart: $17.65 $.50/gallon<BR>65 gallon
cart: $23.15 $.36/gallon<BR>95 gallon
cart: $28.65 $ $.30/gallon<BR>For each increase in
size the marginal rate per gallon is $.18/gallon<BR> Tim
Davis informed me that $10.15 of each fee is considered a "base fee",
so....let's do this:<BR>35 gallon cart: $17.65-$10.15 (base
fee)=$7.50: $.21.4/gallon<BR>65 gallon cart: $23.15-$10.15 (base
fee)=$13.00: $.20/gallon<BR>95 gallon cart: $28.65-$10.15 (base
fee)=$18.50: $.19.5/gallon<BR>I realize there is infrastructure everyone
needs to pay into. However, the monthly fee for the largest cart works out
to 10% less per gallon than the smallest. This is the wrong way to
go. Besides the basic costs of running a sanitation department (office,
accounting, insurance, etc), there are the costs of the collection, vehicle
maintenance, transportation of the garbage to the Transfer Station and the Cost
of exporting the garbage to the eventual landfill. In the latter 4
categories of expense the high waste producing households add <B>substantially
more </B>expense to the system than low waste households. This clearly
calls for increasing marginal rates, not decreasing them.
<BR> I would like to see options for low waste
households. At this evening's Finance Committee Meeting it was
stated quite clearly by Mr. Davis and Mr. Reidner that technology exists for
such options, although each has associated costs. I would love to learn
more about these technologies. <BR> Thank You for your
Time and your Service, <BR>Antone G.
Holmquist<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>