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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Tuesday, February 21, 2012 <br />Page 15 <br />Dr. Parker asked, so now people will have the big bin and the 64 gallon bin? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, and I think you are going to find that that is going to be the norm in the <br />area. <br />Dr. Parker asked, what was the price difference again between the 3 and the 5 yeaz contract per <br />year? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, for the totals we are at, the base bid for 5 years would be $979,446 and for <br />Option 1 it's $994,081. So over a 5 year period it's costing $20,000. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, you are asking about a 3 year bid? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, the base bid can be done with a 3 year bid, 2 option years on top of that <br />which is what we are working under today. That's why we opted out. The 3 year window came <br />up and we opted out. <br />Council President Buckholtz sta.ted, that's what we did at the last meeting. <br />Mr. Metzung replied, conect. <br />Dr. Parker is just concerned that one, we are locking ourselves in for 5 years which if we had <br />done that with the present situation we wouldn't be able to do this what we are doing now. Two, <br />I'm not convinced that the 64 gallon toters are the way to go. I know that people are going to <br />love it and probably people are going to hate it. I don't know. I heard people comment at the <br />last meeting that they aze very lar.ge and even though they aze the same footprint, they are much <br />higher and I am sure they widen out as you go further up. It really limits us to coming back in 3 <br />years like we do here and getting a better deal perhaps or renegotiating or whatever. I don't <br />know. We wouldn't be doing that now if we had done a 5 yeaz contract last time. <br />Mr. Mazquardt asked, it's going to be necessary to use the toters for the garbage? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, we do not need to use it for solid waste because that is not a fully. <br />automated system. We have unlimited pick up so that you are allowed to put your trash next to <br />your cart should you use that system, so, no, we are not obligated to use it for solid waste. But in <br />this bid, the contractors did bid the 64 gallon carts with the thought that they would go fully <br />automated. Those machines aze different. It will allow them to pick up loose materials. They go <br />in to a high bin. ' <br />Mr. Mazquardt sta.ted, I think we are going to have complaints about the double bins. <br />Council President Buckholtz stated, we talked about this at great length in Caucus. My <br />interpretation was the biggest discussion was based around whether it was bi-weekly or weekly.