| Today's Feature Recycling Recommended.
Tuesday afternoon’s Public
Works Committee meeting opened with a discussion
of the solid waste removal proposals in
contention for the City’s five year
contract. Beryl Kingsbury, a local recycling
proponent, addressed the Committee on the
importance of recycling.
"This is the first time in
the seven years we’ve lived here that this
kind of setting has existed--that we have on
paper proposals on recycling requested by the
City government, " Kingsbury said.
"This is a good climate, and I appreciate
that."
Kingsbury referred to the
results of a recent survey of Carthage citizens
which indicated that 53% of respondents wanted
recycling, but 58% of respondents did not want to
pay for it. According to his calculations, one of
the recycling proposals would cost households
only 3 cents a day extra.
"How many of you would
like to win the lottery?" asked Kingsbury.
"Can you win the lottery without buying a
ticket? Recycling can’t come in without
dollar costs, but we’re already paying.
Every time we do not save our resources,
we’re paying and we’re going to pay
more down the line."
Committee member Larry Ross
pointed out that over the life of the five year
contract the proposal from American Disposal
Services is approximately $300,000 less than the
next lowest bidder for basic trash and yard waste
removal. Ross also noted that for about the same
cost of these basic services from the other three
bidders, American could provide curbside
recycling.
According to numbers compiled
by the Department of Engineering, the monthly
costs for residential trash and yard waste
removal range from American’s $20,907 to
Four State Sanitation’s $25,923 to USA
Waste’s $26,206.38 and BFI’s
$27,520.08.
Monthly costs for curbside
recycling range from American’s $26,950 to
Four State’s $34,657. The Committee did not
discuss the pay-as-you-throw recycling option
which charges households for excess trash nor did
they discuss the bids for a centralized drop-off
site for recycling.
Ross moved to recommend to the
full Council the proposal by American Disposal
for trash and yard waste removal with curbside
recycling. Recycling would be picked up weekly
along with trash. Committee member Trisha
Burgi-Brewer voted in the affirmative, noting she
would like to see a provision in the contract
that all recyclables must go to recycling centers
and not to a landfill. Burgi-Brewer also
expressed concern that the contract not be open
to renegotiation if the haulers’ costs
increased during the contract period.
Incentive Plans in Use.
The Public Works Committee has received the
first request for reimbursement under new
contractor incentive plans. Funds are available
on a first-come, first-served basis. Adam Hoover
of A. Hoover Construction notified the Committee
of his intention to seek reimbursement for curb
and guttering and asphalting in his Hedgewood
addition. Committee members voted to recommend
Hoover’s request to the full Council.
Assistant to the City Engineer Joe Butler
explained that all work must be inspected and
then measured to determine the amount of
reimbursement.
In other business the Committee
approved a change order for the Fifth Street
parking lot beside the police department. An
additional cost of $4244.39 was incurred removing
topsoil in four locations and bringing in clay
prior to paving.
A recommendation was also
granted for a storm water project in the area of
Glenstone at Grand Avenue. Water from
approximately 10 acres south of Glenstone runs
across the Culley property at that corner.
According to Butler the problem is getting worse
and the proposed project would reroute 75-80% of
the water to an existing storm sewer prior to it
reaching the Culley property.
A $35,000 Elk Street project is
already in the capital improvements budget for
this year. The project discussed Tuesday night
would be a $31,600 addition to that project.
Master Drawings in K.C.
press release
artCentral
What a weekend! Blues and Jazz
out the wazoo. Kansas City, Penn Valley Park, the
Liberty Memorial, Amazing Grace BBQ and a rain
tent. The music was fabulous, the food sinful,
the heat was something else, and a good time was
had by all.
Kansas City has a lot of very
beautiful sculptures and fountains. It is really
a wonderful weekend away. The Nelson-Atkins is
featuring a collection of Master's Drawings
"from Durer to Magritte" through the
first of September. Definitely a must see.
While we're in a big city frame
of mind, did you hear about the guy in New York
City that went "trash trawling" in an
upscale area? Seems he found a painting in
someones trash and took it home. He tracked down
the artist and found out that the painting was
valued at five thousand dollars!! "One man's
trash....".
Two bronzes by Rodin were
"found" in a storeroom of a municipal
art gallery in Faenza, France. The busts had been
in storage since 1908 after Rodin, himself,
loaned the pieces to the gallery. The gallery,
which had been closed for more than ten years,
misplaced them after storing them at a convent
until 1924.
Yeah for Canada! In the search
and recovery of stolen art we salute Canada for
returning artifacts to Peru, Mexico, and Columbia
that were stolen from tombs. Returned items
included gold jewelry and a 1900 year old poncho.
Thanks to ARTNEWS magazine for the worldly info.
Back at the ranch, our luncheon
is this Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. Hopefully
we'll have a full house!
Jerry Ellis is offering a
watercolor workshop the end of July, so sign up
now. While you're at it you can sign up for
Helen's colored pencil workshop. That's going to
be a fun couple of days. Grab a couple of your
buddies and try it. What can it hurt? Helen is
talented, creative and fun, so is Jerry. It's all
about a good time as well as a good learning
experience. So what are you waiting for? Call and
reserve yourself a spot. See you there.
On a more business like note,
Dan Corp has resigned from our Board. We want to
say thanks for all of his help these last two
years (Cathy, too!). We wish him well in all his
future endeavors.
So...now who wants to be the
President? For that matter we need to fill a
couple of seats on our Board. Any takers? The
members on our Board now are Don Knost,
Treasurer, Pam Barlet, Secretary, Robin Putnam,
V.P., Helen Kunze, Judy Baucom, Mary
Baumann-Williams and Ron Peterson Jr. We need two
more warm bodies interested in helping keep
artCentral alive. We meet once a month, the third
Tuesday, at 7 p.m. in the Geranium House. Think
about it.
Everyone in reminded to come by
and see the show. It's over July 31st.
More next week.
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