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• MEASURES TO COMPLY WITH CALIFORNIA SENATE BILL 1383, NPDES STORMWATER REGULATIONS, AND AMENDMENTS TO THE ATHENS

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• removal service citywide, which Athens service waste monopoly may soon provide using higher franchise fees. Utility taxes increase costs
• , uh, Athens. Wow. I have such mixed feelings about Athens and I probably shouldn't say anything, but I'm gonna anyway. Uh
• , first of all, Athens is the Cadillac plan and if we didn't have Athens, I think we would all miss it
• . And that's in no way an endorsement for Athens because they, frankly, they pissed me off a couple of times. Uh
• another, another trash company. Um, Athens is pretty responsive to, uh, you know, special requests. We have there a big
• park without Athens. And, uh, so I wouldn't want to have to be one of the people making that decision about Athens
• Athens contract, which is on agenda for council consideration tonight. There's some new state laws which transfer many, many new
• by the new Senate bill change. So with that, I'll entertain any questions. And the, uh, holler is Athens is also
• . You have a, And Mike, if I may, I'll have Athens kind of address that because they provided these numbers, um
• the cities that Athens service or this is just general? No, those are cities that Athens and does, and does not
• service they're both. There are other haulers, Some, some is Timbo CDs on the Athens. Yes. Yeah. And it's some, a
• about relationships very much here, but I'd like to start by wanting you to understand this contract in this way. Athens
• state auditor was, was, I mean, not only, uh, the, the 25 year evergreen with Athens, but, but getting into these
• , if now the, the, the median, the graffiti and the street sweeping is swept into this Athens contract, um, in 20, 28
• from, from, from Athens perspective, um, you know, to, to provide these, you know, uh, three items, uh, at over $2 million
• , um, w I, what is, what is Athens get from this, right? This is a right. It's not like you're in the
• . Athens is a partner in that, but make no lie. It's very expensive for us for the first seven or eight
• Athens, uh, and then right in LA, right. W we're we're, we're creating a situation where that, that evergreen clause
• smart residents and they know the value of Athens. And they're not, they're not here complaining about it. There's
• can, But it says city attorney, The council has come in, call it up. But again, I think Athens would have
• comparative rate chart for the other cities that we had as part of this PowerPoint, these weren't all Athens
• to take your direction if you want me to reach out to other of, of Athens client cities to gauge
• that Athens, um, residents doesn't have a complaint with Athens, like I've mentioned, and, and you've delivered exceptional
• Athens. Well, the company there, um, and the facility is very clean, but I just, with this, we just want
• , we don't question that we love Athens. It's just, we want to make sure their residents are getting the

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• this email is, uh, Gary Clifford, you do have an association with Athens services. So saying that is, uh, I

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• pickup is. If you have any questions, um, you can go to Athens, uh, services.com for additional information about your
• I think, um, you know, is, is it possible way to also leverage some of our sponsorships, like with Athens and

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• the director of governmental affairs for Athens and he has a brief PowerPoint. We have copies of the presentation on the table here in
• , Could you use the microphone work? We're broadcasting this and recording it. Thank you. Hi, I'm Gary Clifford from Athens and
• , are now going to go in with the green. And I want to be clear. That's not an Athens decision. That's not a west
• have to comply with that law. And they're going to have Athens make sure that we develop a program that will make this
• education is on your trashcan, whether it's a sticker or as you replace them, Athens services is putting a QR code
• . So you get compliance because what you need to know is, you know, I have to, I meaning Athens, Brian and I
• . So now you're to see the Athens trucks, you're going to see the little Athens Jeeps. You're going to see people
• entities. So right now there would be a page for collections that would be pertinent that Athens and the city would be
• for 1383, there is potentially a cost in it, not a profit for Athens. There's a cost in doing that new
• . We'll do it as long as there's no LA county restriction or other restriction, or we get nobody at Athens wakes up
• to do. Uh, one, one thing in our stead here is that in, in Athens, we have a valuable community partner. It's

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• . Um, I'll follow up on those questions of the Volkis the illegally disposed items. Um, we're fortunate here with Athens
• it's only four times a year, or they have that one year spring. So if Athens can just disseminate the information

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• citizen requests about bulky item pickups. This is a program available through Athens, which seems to be working really well
• don't need to bring it anywhere. But, um, just as a reminder, people can go online to the Athens website. We've got

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• facility at the police station. Um, you know, it's, it's, uh, Athens really helped us out with, uh, bins to use

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• the outrageous becoming increased a lot, but I was it's still 2% and I was okay. Uh, okay. Trashed Athens

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• approved by Athens, uh, trash. Um, and we have the will server will serve letter from them as well. Um, they've

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• think we need to talk about that. We need to talk about also our contract with the Athens. Um, we need to
• you know, we Athens also put out a mailer out. So every household received that notification that there is a fine