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City Council Meeting Green Highlights 6/24/10

28th June, 2010 - Posted by carsi - No Comments

City Council met on Thursday and took the following green-related actions as part of its agenda:

Authorized the negotiation and execution of a one-year agreement between the City of Austin and the University of Texas at Austin’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to study green vegetated roofs in Austin, in the amount not to exceed $10,000.

Approved a resolution directing the City Manager to determine the cost to Austin taxpayers of processing plastic bags in the waste stream and report the information to City Council by September 2010.

Asked city staffers to negotiate contracts with Balcones Resources and Texas Disposal Systems for short-term and long-term recycling services and to negotiate with Greenstar North America to possibly extend an existing contract.

Asked city staffers to make double-sided copies, use ink-saving fonts, and look into software that can convert faxes to e-mails as part of the city’s One Green Step program.

Authorized a contract to provide document shredding services for various City departments. The amount of paper that is estimated to be recycled equates to an approximate reduction of 1,473 metric tons of carbon monoxide or removing 280 cars off the road each year.

For other actions the council took, check out the Statesman article on the meeting.