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CBC 10-13-2011TJC,INC. P.O. Box 45823 15500 Lawson Rd. Little Rock, AR 72214 Bill To Little Rock City Beautiful Invoice Date Invoice # 10/11/2011 1 24544 P.O. No. Terms Project Steve Homeyer IODays Quantity Description Rate Amount 3 Re -alter sign frames Sales Tax 50.00 7.50% 150.00T 11.25 a Thank you for your business. Net due 10 days from completion. Total $161.25 .I VOINMOrYL 4 �yv' lna�'sz vu�c� ca.1. ArkansasOnline, 10-year recycling contract OK'd LR, NLR would get curbside service from Waste Management BY L. LAMOR WILLIAMS Wednesday, June 1, 2011 LITTLE ROCK — The board of directors of the Regional Recycling and Waste Reduction District, which serves Pulaski County, approved a new 10-year curbside recycling contract Tuesday with current provider Waste Management. Under the contract, Waste Management would provide single -stream recycling, with each customer placing recyclable items in a new 65-gallon wheeled container, much like a garbage container. The recycling container would be picked up every other week. In single -stream recycling, customers do not have to sort their items. Currently, Waste Management uses special trucks with divided hoppers in which workers manually dump recyclable items that have been sorted by the customer. Photo by Rick McFarland A new 10-year curbside recycling contract was approved on Tuesday with Waste Management. Pictured, compacted recyclable plastic jugs and cans at the Waste Management facility in Little Rock in December. The new, large recycling bins would be emptied by a truck similar to regular garbage trucks that use a robotic arm to lift the bins and empty them. The company also will offer an incentive program to get customers to recycle more. The deal still has to be approved by city directors in Little Rock and N orth Little Rock and could expand to include Sherwood and Jacksonville in the near future. If approved, it will begin in October. The new contract will see residential garbage -collection bills increase by 56 cents a month to $2.76, if it is approved by the cities. Eachcustomer will receive a green recycling bin with a yellow lid. Emblazoned on the lid are lists of items that can be recycled, a W aste Management phone number and a website address. The new contract comes after the regional recycling board issued a request for proposals in February calling for providers to offer singlestream recycling, lidded and wheeled carts of65 gallons or more, and an incentive plan that would encourage morepeople to recycle. The deal is for seven years with three one-year extensions. George Wheatley, Waste Management's director of community relations and government affairs, said the company will spend $4 million upgrading its current recycling facility at 7900 Sloane Drive near the Port of Little Rock. Another $3.5 million will go toward five new trucks and 81,000 recycling bins, he said. In addition to pots, pans and rigid plastics, such as laundry baskets, potted -plant containers and some toys, newly recyclable items will include coated paper containers for juices and milk, the Waste Management proposal shows. To encourage people to recycle, Waste Management will offer residents participation in its Think Green Rewards Program which awards registered customers points based on how much they recycle. The points can then be redeemed for things such as discount coupons and gift cards, `Let's say you have a route with 50 houses, the total tonnage recycled would be divided among the registered residents on the route each month and the points would be divided that way," said John Roberts, executive director of the recycling board. The formula for allotting the points has not been finalized, but Roberts noted that "everything will be W eb- based and that deals with a lot of algorithms and stuff that's way over my head." According to Waste Management documents, in theThink Green program in Carrollton, Texas, residents earn three points for every pound of recyclable material. It takes at least 100 points to earn a discount coupon. With 81,000 customers, the Little Rock -area Think Green program would be the Houston -based company's largest, W heatley said, noting that the next largest ones are in Battle C reek, M ich.; and in C arrollton. Wheatley also noted that an incentive program where bins with microchips or bar codes that could be read and weighed by the trucks' robotic arms was abandoned because of expense. "And they just never worked right,"he said. "There was always some problem." Sherwood Mayor Virginia Hillman said she hopes to have Roberts make a presentation to the City Council this month. "I just could not commit at the time," Hillman said. `W e do have a recycling center where residents can take their recyclables, but we're the only city in the county that does not have curbside recycling. We need it." Jacksonville Mayor Gary Fletcher said his City Council would not likely support a rate increase, since that city recently upgraded its self -run recycling service, but he expressed a great deal of interest. "It's very attractive, even though we can't do it right now," he said. Currently Maumelle provides free curbside recycling to its residents, so that city does not anticipate being part of the contract anytime soon, Mayor Mike Watson said. The county isn't joining because the sheer number ofresidents and distance that would need to be covered would drive the cost up for the other 81,000 customers now projected for Little Rock and North Little Rock, Pulaski County Judge Buddy Villines said. `I'd love to do door-to-door recycling in the unincorporated areas but the distance between populated areas and then even between some of the houses is just too great. W e'd spend too much money just getting there and picking it up,"said Villines, who serves as chairman of the recycling board on which each city mayor also serves. Arkansas, Pages 7 on 06/01/2011 t The City Beautiful Commission held its regular meeting Thursday, October 6, 2011, at 11:30 a.m. at Curran Hall. Chair Wiedower called the meeting to order. MEMBERS PRESENT: Steve Homeyer Julleah Johnson Bill Wiedower Herb Dicker Chris Minor Carrie Young Lynn Warren MEMBERS ABSENT: Jennie Cole Two vacancies Linda Bell ALSO PRESENT: Dana Carney, Zoning & Subdivision Manager, Department of Planning & Development, City of Little Rock Beth Blevins Carpenter, Deputy City Attorney, City of Little Rock APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: The minutes of the September 2011 meeting were unavailable. TREASURER'S REPORT: Commissioner Bell was absent. No report was made. Dana Carney reminded the Commission that the Department needed original receipts for any expenses. . COMMITTEE REPORTS: UPDATES: OLD BUSINESS: Community Projects . I-630 Trees- no report Public Relations: Website nn -Commissioner Warren gave a brief update and stated the website was coming together. Library Exhibit- {Julleah)-Commissioner Johnson noted she had been working on some updates for the exhibit. She stated the exhibit would next be at the Fletcher Branch Library in November. The Commission discussed various other venues for the exhibit. KLRB- no report. Ado t-A-Street Dicker)- Vice -chair Dicker reported litter pick-up would be Saturday November 5th. It was agreed to start at 7:30 a.m. He stated they had a good pick-up in September. Communications- Cole - Commissioner Cole was absent. There was no report. Eve of the Beholder Chairman Wiedower reported it had been a productive year Landscape Awards Home er - Commissioner Homeyer stated the awards would be presented at the October 18 Board of Directors' meeting. Awards are to be presented to Los Americas, Town and Country Animal Hospital and Student Loan Guarantee Foundation. Chair Wiedower stated the award presentation needed to be kept brief. NEW BUSINESS: Budget Discussion: Various Commissioners presented budget needs for the remainder of 2011, all of which were fairly minimal. Tree Pruning Ordinance: Chairman Wiedower stated he put this item on the agenda to remind the Commissioners of their desire to discuss the matter. It was agreed that the City's Urban Forester Robbie Hudson would come to the November meeting. The Commission briefly discussed the various ramifications of adopting such an ordinance. Other Matter: Dana Carney reminded the Commission of the need to elect officers. It was noted that the Bylaws had not been followed regarding the appointment of a nominating committee and the timing of elections. Vice -chair Dicker made a motion to re-elect the current officers for another term. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Young and approved unanimously. Nom During the subsequent discussion, Deputy City Attorney Carpenter suggested that it would be better to place the elections on the agenda for November so that there would be public notice. Commissioner Homeyer made a motion to expunge the previous vote. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Young and approved unanimously. Chairman Wiedower appointed Commissioners Homeyer and Young as a nominating committee and directed that they report to the Commission in November with elections to be held at the November meeting. ADJOURNMENT: Motion: Vice -chair Dicker made a motion to adjourn. Second: Commissioner Homeyer seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 12:45 p.m.