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Chair Adams said that for herself that sounds reasonable, and it’s something that we could work offline with the Department in working onways to minimize Mr. K’s cost. It is a community service that you are providing, and she would be interested in other comments from Commissioners. Commissioner Fulton suggested soliciting volunteers from among the Commission to get a small group together to work with Mr. K’s. What they are asking is very reasonable. She would like to see a few Commissioners work on that. Vice Chair Gaffney wondered if we could move this forward more quickly. Motion and second.Vice Chair Gaffney made a motion, to which Commissioner Fulton seconded,“that we ask the County consider reimbursing Mr. K’s for the collection of non-HI-5 glass.” Discussion: Commissioner Fulton said it’s always easy to go to the County and say, we want you to pay for something, but it goes hand in hand with a mechanism for funding. Chair Adams said it occurred to her that perhaps one route is the residential tipping fee credit, when haulers are taking residential waste, which was a previous controversy a few meetings ago. She asked if they can be treated in that way, because what we are dealing with is residential waste essentially. And she would be willing tobe in the conversation to see what kinds of accommodations could be made. She asked for a possible revision of the motion, by not putting the solution into the motion that the County pay Mr. K’s, but that the County works out a way to reduce the cost that Mr. K’s is facing by winding up with all this glass that could be recycled. Commissioner Fulton said this circles back to agenda item 5-b(1), for extended producer responsibility. Chair Adams said that is the Advance Deposit Fee model, which is to pay more money, and it would have to be more than twice as much to cover additional costs. Maybe this meeting is not the best place to figure out what the best solution is. Withdrawal of motion.Vice Chair Gaffney agreed, and withdrew the motion. He said the discussion should continue. There may be other parties besides Mr. K’s that should be considered in this motion. Let’s be sure that we are being broad and not just focusing on a single business, although we do appreciate the work that he does, the Vice Chair said. Commissioner Cardwell mentioned, for example, Atlas Recycling Centers. They may be a good organization to reach out to because they do a lot of recycling as well, and she imagines they 5