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San Bruno City Council Meeting February 10, 2015
4. Presentations
A
B
Good
evening,
Marouane
and
council,
when
I
was
here
six
months
ago,
to
give
the
council
an
update
on
the
organics
program,
I
was
asked
by
council
to
come
back
after
the
program
had
been
in
place
for
one
year
and
to
give
you
an
update
on
how
it
was
going.
So
that's
why
I'm
here
tonight
and
thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
be
here
so
how
we
got
here.
B
So,
as
you
know,
January
first
we
began
allowing
residents
to
put
food
scraps
and
soiled
paper
products
into
their
existing
green
containers,
which
currently
had
yard
waste
and
grass
clippings
inside.
We
provided
them
a
kitchen
pail
to
a
system
in
this
process,
and
this
is
also
the
time
that
we
began
weekly
collection
of
the
green
cart.
During
the
past
12
months,
we
provided
education
to
the
residents
in
both
printed
and
electronic
format,
and
we've
also
reached
out
to
commercial
businesses
that
we
know
produce
high
volumes
of
food
waste.
B
Over
time,
we've
seen
that
behavior
change
is
a
large
factor
when
measuring
the
success
of
the
program
as
more
and
more
residents
and
businesses
participate.
The
concept
that
food
scraps
and
soil
paper
products
are
as
easy
to
recycle
as
a
bottle
or
a
can
starts
to
take
root
in
our
community.
We've
seen
this
trend
continued
as
the
behaviors
continued
to
evolve
and
change.
Organic
diversion
continues
to
increase,
as
you
can
see
from
the
chart
in
2013.
B
Only
remember
only
the
only
material
allowed
in
the
green
cart
was
grass
clippings
and
leaves,
and
then
in
2014,
you
approved
the
addition
of
the
food
scrap
program
and
that
led
to
an
increase
of
seven
hundred
and
thirty-five
tons
in
its
first
year
and
I
also
would
like
you
to
keep
in
mind
that
2014
was
truly
a
year
of
drought
and
regionally
across
recology.
We
saw
from
the
food
waste
and
the
grass
clippings
tonnage
go
down,
so
that
number
is
significant,
significantly
positive.
B
Another
measurement
of
increase
in
program
participation
as
far
as
the
reduction
in
cart
size,
so
customers
are
pulling
their
organic
material
now
out
of
their
grey
cart
and
place
it
in
the
green
cart.
So
this
shift
of
material
is
allowing
customers
to
migrate
down
to
the
20
gallon
cart
if
they
so
choose.
B
So
we
don't
have
many
customers
in
a
larger
can
anymore
now
we'll
take
a
shift
to
commercial
and
when
I
shared
with
you
previously
is
six
months
ago
we
talked
about
the
dynamic
makeup
of
our
commercial
accounts
and
134
our
major
organic
producers
in
366,
or
have
little
to
no
organics
because
of
our
outreach.
In
the
past
year,
we
have
58
customers
on
the
on
the
commercial
organics
program,
which
is
a
forty
three
percent
participation
rate,
and
in
six
months
ago
we
were
at
thirty-five
percent.
B
So
it's
continually
growing
and
it
is
an
ongoing
process
and,
that's
not
to
say
we
won't
be
reaching
out
to
the
additional
366,
because
we
do
find
that
there
is
additional
volume
there,
because
we
do
have
allowed
the
soiled
paper
product.
So
there's
the
material
there
for
us
to
go
after
some
of
the
struggles
when
we
reach
out
to
the
commercial
customers,
our
management's,
reluctant
to
change
the
need
for
corporate
approval
and
some
have
some
space
constraints.
So
we
are
working
diligently
with
them
to
find
a
solution
that
works
for
everyone.
B
The
result
in
working
closely
with
the
commercial
clients
is
shown
here
on
the
graph.
They
are
changing
their
behavior
and
they
are
beginning
to
participate.
So
our
ultimate
goal
is
to
convert
our
major
garbage
producers
into
an
organic
compactor
and
YouTube
is
one
of
our
leaders,
they've
converted
their
recycling
compactor
and
they
also
have
an
organics,
compactor
and
mollie
stones
is
working
diligently
toward
that
process
as
well.
B
So
2013
was
our
pilot
year,
so
we
only
had
a
few
summer
is
participating
and
in
its
in
our
first
year
of
the
commercial
program,
oh
shoot
I
didn't
do
it
our
commercial
customers
and
have
increased
their
diversion
by
five
hundred
and
twenty-seven
percent.
They
are
diverting
765
tons
in
its
first
year,
so
they're
doing
a
great
job.
B
Organics
outreach
doesn't
stop
at
the
residential,
curb
and
commercial
we're
also
focusing
on
our
multi
families.
We've
been
working
very
closely
with
shelter
creek
and
they
have
three
hundred
pails
already
dispersed
within
their
community.
Those
are
residents
requesting
a
pale
and
that's
about
a
25-percent
participation
rate
from
shelter
creek,
I'm
checking
up
and
down
the
peninsula.
That's
a
very
high
participation
rate
for
multifamily.
So
it's
there
they're
a
strong
contributor.
We've
also
started
with
peninsula
place.
They've
got
some
kitchen
pails
out
there
and
they've
started
in
three
locations.
B
B
B
So
this
is
a
continued
effort
that
we
are
very
committed
to
our
outreach
and
education
moves
forward
and
new
ideas
and
presentations
are
coming
I'm
happy
to
say
that
we
have
now
scheduled
our
second
compost
giveaway,
which
will
be
on
Saturday
april
fifth,
in
the
same
location
as
last
year,
up
at
Beckner
shelter.
So
our
residents
can
come
and
get
some
nice
rich
compost
that
they've
actually
that
come
from
the
material
they've
composted.
We
will
participate
in
educational
Booth's
that
come
our
direction
and
be
able
to
continue
our
outreach
there.
B
B
C
The
chair
Michael
have
a
couple
questions
one
do
we
have
numbers
on
an
actual
number
of
people
that
are
putting
their
their
green
bin
out
every
week
and
we
know
how
that's
changed
from
from
when
it
started,
I
mean
I
know
we
have
the
tonnage,
but
to
kind
of
gauge
actual
participation
do
we
know
and
how
many
people
are
actually
doing
it
on
a
weekly
basis.
We.
B
Don't
have
I
don't
have
numbers
here
tonight.
I
can
certainly
try
and
get
some
for
you.
Some
customers
are
still
putting
out
putting
it
out
on
a
bi-weekly
basis,
although
we
encourage
them
weekly
because
of
the
the
food.
That's
now
in
the
green
cart,
but
some
customers
are
still
on
their
bi-weekly
habit
and
so
I
can
definitely
we
can
try
and
gauge
that
number
for
you
and.
C
Has
there
been
any
issue
with
people
putting
the
wrong
things
in
the
green
bin,
or
have
people
been
pretty
well
educated
about
what
what
goes
in
there
and
what
doesn't
go
in
there?
I
know
that
some
people
were
storing
things
in
plastic
bags
and
then
putting
plastic
bag
in
there.
Has
that
become
an
issue
they're.
B
Doing
a
great
job
because
we
are
semi-automated,
the
driver
is
still
lifting
the
lid
and
hooking
it
up
to
the
cart
so
he's
able
to
see
the
contents
if
they
aren't
doing
it
correctly,
they
get
a
tag
and
then
they
call
our
office
and
we
educate
them
and
from
then
on
they
do
it
right.
But
we
don't
issue
very
many
contamination
tags
in
san
bruno
they're,
paying
attention
and
they're
doing
it
right.
Okay,.