Finance Committee Meeting

FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 10:00 AM Council Chambers 1. NEW BUSINESS Chairwoman Anne Huntsinger called the meeting to order at 10:02am. PRESENT Chairwoman Anne Huntsinger Committee Member Jay Boland Committee Member Linda Dodd Mayor Skip Baliles A. Recycling and Rates Waste Management Chairwoman Anne Huntsinger explained that the purpose of this meeting was to discuss recycling and rates. City Manager Danny Roberts explained that the current contract has an automatic adjustment per CPI with notice to the Council and residents. He further explained that a the time the contract was done there was charge for recycling. It is now costing Waste Management to recycle and is becoming costly. The suggestion has been that we remove recycling from the contract and charge for it for those who are interested in that service. Walt Ritter spoke on behalf of Waste Management. He explained that the recycling program is no longer making money. It is now costing the company to take the goods to have them processed. Their suggestion is to make the recycling program a subscription service. Rick Latham with Latham Sanitation explained that this is the approach that they took in Grayson and it was very successful in Grayson. After much discussion, Waste Management is to work out the contract and send it to the City. The City will review and decide what to charge. Waste Management will have the contract to the City sometime in January so it can be voted on at the February council meeting. Motion made by Chairwoman Huntsinger to allow City Manager Danny Roberts to open negotiations for the subscription service without the CPI increase for the remaining two years of the contract, Seconded by Committee Member Dodd. Voting Yea: Committee Member Boland, Committee Member Dodd. Motion carried 3-0. 2. ADJOURNMENT Meeting was adjourned at 10:58am.