<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>The City is still not very good at getting information to the public, I'm sorry to say. One wonders if this is by design, to keep public response to a minimum!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Betsy Dickow<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Darrell Keim <<a href="mailto:keim153@gmail.com">keim153@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>I happened to be at the council meeting when this issue was decided. Don't ask me the numbers, but I recall they made the decision to discontinue this location very clear. </div><div><br></div><div>Sorry to hear it has inconvenienced you.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Saundra Lund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" vlink="#954F72" link="#0563C1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">Wow – we made our regular trip to the glass recycling bin on the east side of town (old Gilbert Auto parking lot) this morning only to find it gone . . . with no notice! Since the move to single-stream curbside recycling has excluded glass, we’ve been helping out a few friends who lack transportation and/or the physical strength/agility to haul heavy glass by taking their glass when we take ours. This is a practice I’m not sure we’ll be able to continue with the elimination of the convenient location of that bin </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546a">L</span><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">Supposedly, the glass recycling bin was removed due to a lack of use, although I’m not sure I find that explanation reasonable – it was unusual when we went that no one else was coming or going, and comments from nearby businesses also indicate it was frequently used in spite of the user <b>unfriendly</b> design of that particular bin.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">This was extraordinarily bad timing because we just received our City bill yesterday, and I’ve long noticed that our rates are significantly higher than a family member’s who lives in expensive California. They have bi-weekly single-stream curbside recycling, too, but they <b>haven’t</b> excluded glass <b>and</b> they accept more curbside recyclables than we are allowed here.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">I recall reading “something” a month or two after we moved to single-stream recycling that the transition was extraordinarily successful – I believe the amount of recyclables picked up doubled. It makes me really happy that the inclusion of apartment complexes has been so successful!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">With that enormous improvement in recycling rates, that <b>should</b> mean less is going into the landfill and/or less waste that needs to be trucked out of the area, although I don’t recall seeing anything statistics about that.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">However, with the decreases in service since the move to single-stream recycling as well as the laudable success of shifting recyclables out of the landfill, I’d like to know when we can expect to see a decrease in our garbage rates.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">Saundra Lund<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">Moscow, ID<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak out for themselves.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a">~ Jane Goodall<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><br>=======================================================<br>
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