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Council Minutes of 5/5/92 Audience Partici tion continued) Jo igan~+~~~ag~~oacT, an employee of Jamestown Apartments, feels that the city and Jamestown Apartments would benefit from a recycling program. Gasella Valenti, 4823 Columaba Road, feels apartment residents have the right to have a recycling program. She pays for everything that goes on in North Olmsted, and she wants recycling. Sumet Kumar, a Jamestown resident, also spoke in favor of recycling for multi- family residences. Me feels that apartment residents, as taxpayers, definitely deserve the consideration of Council in including them in the recycling plan. Melissa Zapanta, 4827 Columbia Road, said that recycling shouild be considered as a moral issue rather than a money issue. Recycling is important to the entire world. By providing a recycling program for all city residents, North Olmsted could set an example for other coinrnnities that are dealing. with recycling. Mr. Margolies thanked Council for being so receptive to his proposal, and he lopes the recycling program can be implemented in a short period of time. He feels that recycling is the city's responsibility rather than the County's. He asked if the Mayor could set a time Lunn in his request to BFI for the preparation of the multi-family recycling program. Mayor Boyle responded that he would consult BFI about a time frame, but he wouil.d not set an arbitrary time limit. Also, he feels it should be noted that we do pay taxes to the County; indeed, the city does pay a recycling fee to the County. He feels tl~ burden of recycli.r~g should not have been put entirely on the cities. It could have been addressed and fixed long ago by the right goverment. Instead, the burden has been laid on the backs of the taxpayers in the cities. Mr. Margolies agreed that the Ohio General Assembly passed the buck to the EPA, who passed the buck to the Counties, who passed the buck to the cities. Unfortunately, the cities have to deal with the problem because they are at the end of the line. Mr. McKay commented that the city cannot set a time limit until BFI had an opportunity to study their costs. Mr. Margolies acknowledged that there will be difficulty in cleterminin~, the cost of picking uap one site for 324 residents as opposed to 324 stops, especially since it is not known how fully apartment residents will participate in recycling. He pro- ; posed that Jamestown Apartments be used as a test site. Mayor Boyle responded that he could not allow only one multi-family residence to be used as a test site. BFI is a national corporation who can develop their costs out of their experiences in other cities. Mrs. Bahas asked that. Mr. Margolies and the residents be patient. The city does not want to rush into a program without the proper research. Taking the time to do a good job and work out the glitches will benefit everyone. ® Mr. McKay wanted to make it clear that the city is not going to make money from recycling--no commnity makes money on recycling. Recycling is an expense to cities. He has served on a Westshore commuzi.ty committee for two and a half years that has been studying recycling. The final proposal was to build a facility for 6