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We started to send crews down mom and pop place that put the grease water and pour it down the sewer. We are generating money for that and plus its keeping it out of the sewer. Resource recovery is a big thing for us, not just biogas, any grease related stuff. It was once used. All the water out of our Treatment Plant can be used. 100 percent is being recycled. Its helping the citys goal to meet. So we are trying our very best. Thats great. I think at the department we would be super happy to do that especially on the Renewable Energy to buy gas. I have one more question, what proportion of th...

The design, moving forward, we are not quite there yet. But i think every facility that we are going to be building will have solar. We have civil several solar facilities on our properties. Resource recovery is a big deal for us. We collect from every restaurant. We are not just even big producers of grease, but turning bio diesel also. We start the program as a pretreatment. We want to get the grease out of the sewer. We spend 4 million a year. We started to send crews down mom and pop place that put the grease water and pour it down the sewer. We are generating money for that and plus its k...

Move that to even, even greener with each budget cycle and those are the next two slides, five and six in your packet and then, again, the replacement strategy is outlined here and targeting the oldest vehicles in particular, to help with the particulate matter reductions in the environment as well as following the department of environments green, vehicle grid and Compliance Standards and then, we dont have a eligible vehicle and we look at what the greenest in the class will be for that specific vehicle and if not, being a bike or a transit first, alternative. And environmental strategies we...

Citys goal to meet. So we are trying our very best. Thats great. I think at the department we would be super happy to do that especially on the Renewable Energy to buy gas. I have one more question, what proportion of the 2. 7 billion budget in phase one is devoted to the green programs so to speak. Is that 57 million for the implementation project or is there more than that . The over all budget for the 20 program is somewhere around 400 million. The 57 million we want to test out this technology if it actually works. Weve never done them in the past we know of cities that do that. The city i...

Meet High Standards and these standards we develop in conjunction with the puc and the dph and we dont need to develop the standards but we help the businesses meet the High Standard by providing on site consultations. And so, my take away here and i know that there was a lot of information here but the big take away is when we design the programs and implement them, they are always, we always recognize that the chemicals are products that do not belong in the trash or in the sewer and so we worked closely with the team to make sure that we are consistent in our messaging and design and we con...