Agenda - Council Work Session - 04/30/2001

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Memo To". From: CC: Date: Re: Jim Norman, City Administrator Megan Wald, Community Development Assistant City Council Members 04/10/01 Community Calendar Project The City of Ramsey receives a grant from Anoka County Integrated Waste each year to help fund the City's residential recycling program. I would like to use money from the 2001-recycling budget to fund a community/recycling awareness calendar. I am interested in putting together a calendar that would mainly focus on waste reduction, recycling, composting and different community events that the City puts on during a calendar year. The calendar would include pictures from Recycling Days, Arbor Day, Happy Days, etc. Since I am proposing to fund the project through the recycling budget I would have to follow Anoka County Integrated Waste's guidelines which are: 1) Calendar must be printed two sided with soy ink and a minimum of 10% post consumer paper 2) Calendar content must be at a minimum 90% waste reduction, toxicity reduction, recycling, or composting 3) Most pictures and graphics must relate to the environment. I was thinking of asking either the 1st or 2nd graderS at Ramsey Elementary School to have a coloring contest of a picture related to recycling. The winning, picture would then be included in the calendar. Many surrounding Cities have put together a community calendar with a main focus on recycling and tips on bettering the environment. On an average the calendars would run approximately $1 each plus applicable postage cost. I would like to allocate enough money so that each Ramsey Resident would receive a calendar in the mail, this would be approximately 10, 000 dollars (includes cost of calendar and postage). There is money in the recycling budget to cover the calendar and postage costs for each Ramsey resident.