2008-09-22 Regular Council Session Agenda

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The students would then be the ambassadors, bringing home the information and hopefully generating interest at home too. Mr. Price also suggested doing a follow-up with the City schools on the grant sponsored by East West Gateway contest. He stated the City should move forward cautiously and he agrees with Mr. Glickert that spending should be only in-house. Mr. Price second Mr. Crow’s motion. In answer to Ms. Ricci’s question on posters and door hangers, Ms. Shields- Benford said the poster price of $9,600, included the design printing and installation of 100 large posters. Ms. Shields-Benford said the door-hangers would cost about $1.00 each, which included the plastic bag for hanging the flyer for a cost of $9,900. Ms. Ricci preferred to keep the discussion open and start with the budgeted amount of $5,400 and add a little to send letters to neighborhood associations asking them to share information with their residents. Mayor Adams asked for a vote on Mr. Crow’s motion to go forward with the plan for $19,500 for promotional material to encourage University City’s residents to recycle. The voice vote was approved by the majority with one Nay vote from Ms. Ricci. 4. Etzel Alley Cart Collection City Manger Ms. Feier stated that a study had been done in 2004 and 2006 concerning cart pick-up in the alley of residents living on Etzel Ave. She explained that it is basically a financial issue. Ms. Feier addressed a couple of Ms. Glickert’s issues. Her first issue had to do with the alley width of 15 feet versus street width of 30 feet. The alley width presented more risk possibility of damaging personal property. The second issue dealt with equity, receiving equivalent service. A dumpster is emptied twice a week and the cart service is picked up only once a week. Ms. Feier noted the pros and cons of a dumpster versus individual carts and stated it was a Council decision. Mr. Price stated that he has heard pros and cons about dumpster versus carts so he and Mr. Sharpe, Jr. are going to set up a meeting in Pershing Elementary and invite residents to come to voice their opinion. He stated he would not be in favor of the additional cost for one block. Mr. Glickert asked Mr. Price to concentrate on residents shown in map, as area 10. CITIZEN COMMENTS Elsie Glickert, 6712 Etzel Ms. Glickert stated the 2004 survey and pilot program did not work because it did not allow residents to take their carts to the alley, they had to be put out on the street. Most homes in this area do not have drive-ways and are terraced making it difficult to roll the cart out to the street. Ms. Glickert maintained that the dumpster attracts itinerate haulers which cost the City extra dumping fees. Ms. Glickert noted that there were only 46 recyclers in the alley of approximately 1000 because people will not roll out the carts to the street as is presently mandated. She maintained that the alley behind her house did not look like the pictures provided by the Public Works Department and they were wide enough to have pick-up with roll-out carts.