City council and beautification committee both met this evening. Beautification is continuing work on what we call the crescent -- the northeast corner at the highway junction to Zion (across the street from Chevron and diagonal from Farmers Market). We have gotten back with the Utah State University folks helping us with the design with our thoughts on their initial three conceptual proposals, now we're waiting for them to get more specific based on our input. It will probably take a couple months to hear something more, but then they are doing this as a student research project for free, and they are good, so it seems worth waiting for. We also worked on the October city cleanup day and the Christmas lighting contest.
The most discussed item on the city council agenda tonight was a recycling proposal. Right now we have "binnies" by the elementary school where you can take cardboard, plastic, etc. and put it yourself into the right bin. There is no cost (other that your time to take it to the collection site and to sort it) and we got about $1000 from our share of the recycling proceeds in 2009. This money goes 100% to planting new trees in parks and on other city grounds.
The proposal is to make this more convenient by giving everyone an additional container for recyclables. You don't have to sort as everything collected will be shipped to an amazing sorting machine in Las Vegas that does that for us. But there is a cost, about $10 per quarter per household. If you don't want to participate or pay the fee, you would be allowed to "opt out". The recycling company would still send the city the $1000 from recycling proceeds.
There are some details to be worked out, but from the discussion it sounds like the council is pretty positive about this as long as those who want to opt out are given plenty of notice so this doesn't look like we are forcing it on anyone.
It will come up for a vote soon, so I'd love to see your comments as to what you think of this proposal ...
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I was there tonight and was hoping to speak, but discovered it's not allowed with current agenda items. Another topic for another day. :-)
ReplyDeleteplease vote YES on this issue!!!!!!!!
We moved down here a year ago and were sickened to learn that we were required to have two trash bins, but curbside had been voted down. Since then, we haul our items to the binnies and take our cardboard into St. George since that is not an acceptable item here.
Our family uses half a trash bin every other week!
How about replacing one of those trash bins with the recycling bin?
Either way, while the Allied presenter was informative, there are a Lot more facts to consider.
Did you know that the average sized city that offers a curbside program creates 3 to 6 new jobs for their area?
The amount of aluminum cans thrown away by the USA alone is worth $600,000 a year! Soon, we'll have to mine our landfills for resources!
I could go on, but the fact remains that the very few citizens discussed who wouldn't 'understand' the program is just that- very few.
Do you distrust that many of La Verkin's citizens to not 'get' something so basic ?
La Verkin is behind the times, but the people are not brainless.
Voting against this would be a huge step back for this community.
Katie Petersen
I would LOVE curbside recycling and definitely be willing to be the tiny bit extra to have it.
ReplyDeleteYES YES YES YES YES!! Please pass this!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your interest and comments. I am pleased we have found a way to do this at a cost most have agreed is minimal and yet each individual chooses whether to participate. Katie Peterson, you are welcome to use the public comment period at the beginning of the meeting to give your views on a subject for future council consideration, which includes later in the same meeting. Sorry that wasn't made more clear to you sooner, and thanks for coming (with your children!) to last night's meeting.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see this happen. I think that would be very good for La Verkin and it's citizens. We had this service when we lived in Mesa, and although the "binnies" are very convenient, it's nothing compared to out your back door.
ReplyDeleteI will definitely support this.