3. City-County Cooperation Group Resolution RequestCooperation
Group
•Kalispell"
qebruary 12, 1996
Mayor Douglas Rauthe
City of Kalispell
P. O. Box 1997
Kalispell, MT 59903-1997
Dear Mayor Rauthe:
As you know, at the January 29th "Fifth Monday" meeting of the City
Councils of Kalispell, Columbia Falls, and Whitefish and the
Flathead County Commissioners, our Group asked the participating
local governments to consider adopting the attached Resolution,
edited as necessary to meet their individual concerns.
After the meeting, I was asked two questions by Councilpersons.
First, there was a concern that we were asking that the Cities and
County use the same waste disposal and/or recycling firms. That is
not the case. Rather, we were assuming that each community would
continue to work with whatever service it now uses.
The other question related to the need to go out for bids for the
service. Again, we were anticipating that recycleable waste could
be picked up by the community's existing service(s), perhaps using
a separate dumpster or other container. If the existing service(s)
do not provide pick-up of recyclable paper, an in-house voluntary
effort could be initiated.
I hope this is helpful to you. If I or any other member of the
Group can be of further assistance in bringing this resolution
before your Council, please let me know. Meanwhile, the County
Commissioners will consider it at their February 26th meeting.
With thanks and all best wishes,
Carol Daly
for the Cities -County Cooperation Group
cc: Bruce Williams
communityWHEREAS op • solve
• problems, and
WHEREAS a Cities -County Cooperation Group was
formed as a result of the "Which Way Kalispell?" meeting
on November 21, 1995, and
WHEREAS the action plan of that group is to find a
demonstration program that all local governments in
Flathead County can effectively work on together to build
trust, and
WHEREAS it is the desire of those local governing
bodies to act in a spirit of cooperation by carrying out a
small pilot project,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that as a first
step toward this goal, the cities and the county will initiate
and implement an intergovernmental program of office
waste paper reduction and recycling.