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P.O. Box 45823
15500 Lawson Rd.
Little Rock, AR 72214
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Little Rock City Beautiful
Invoice
Date Invoice #
10/11/2011 1 24544
P.O. No.
Terms
Project
Steve Homeyer
IODays
Quantity
Description
Rate
Amount
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Re -alter sign frames
Sales Tax
50.00
7.50%
150.00T
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Total $161.25
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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
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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.