THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM
MEMO
B. Kirk
City Administrator

J. Maitland
City Treasurer

Recycling Costs

That the capital costs involved in the establishment of our curbside recycling program be
taken (without repayment) from our Tax Sale Reserve and that staff be instructed to
prepare the necessary bylaw.

That the 1990 costs of the program be funded from the current budget and any shortfall
would come from the Recycling Promotion Reserve.

That the 1991 costs would be funded from General Taxes.
Background and Comments:

Capital costs:

The capital costs would be funded from our Tax Sale Reserve, it is also suggested that as
we will be charging for replacement of the equipment as a charge to the operation that we
do not double up on this charge to the taxpayer by requiring repayment to the Tax Sale
Reserve.

If Council approves taking the funds from the Tax Sale Reserve, the bylaw would be
prepared based on the gross cost of the capital plus a small cushion for price increases
(and perhaps GST, depending upon delivery dates) for a round total of $400,000. The
bylaw would be based on the gross capital cost under the assumption that there would be
no offsetting Provincial grants. Any grants received would of course offset these costs.

1990 Operating costs:

According to the Acting Engineer’s report the operating costs for 1990 will total $70,712
with funds totalling $67,500 being available through both the current operating budget and
use of the funds within the Recycling Promotion Reserve. I would Suggest that the
projected shortfall of $3,212 would be funded out of our current budget although the

source of the funds is not at this time specified.

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