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November !2, 1989 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 48 pages 25¢

WORKERS UNHAPPY WITH ‘SECRETIVE’ RECYCLING PLAN
union cries fou
age recommendation

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THE UNION representing workers who collect garbage in

North Vancouver District

is charging North Shore

municipalities with being ‘secretive and undemocratic’ in
the way they’ve handled the search for a contractor to im-
plement a proposed tri-municipal, multi-material recycling

program.

The Mayor’s Task Force on
Recycling, which includes repre-
sentation by the three mayors,
municipal engineers and managers,
has negotiated a contract with In-
ternational Paper Industries (IPI)
and is recommending the contract
be approved.

The municipalities did not cail
for public tenders on the contract,
which entails the weekly curbside
pick-up of recyclable newspaper,
glass, metal and some soft plastics.
The contract negotiated with IP!
was considered and approved in
principle in-camera by North Van-
couver District Council Oct. 23.

The union argues the process
should have involved public input
and discussion, the contract should
have been subject to competitive
bidding, and the North Vancouver
civic employees should have been
given the opportunity to make a
proposal to take on the recycling
program.

But said North Vancouver
District. engineering head John
Bremner: ‘‘That shocked me that
the implication was made that we
were trying to hide something.
Whenever we have mectings
around here, you could say all of
them are in-camera. You don’t do
everything out in public
meetings.’’

Bremner said the decision not to
take the contract to tender was
made on the basis that the tri-
municipal recycling task force felt
it couldn’! get a better deal than
the one negotiated with IPI.

‘*When a contract gets bids, you
don't talk about free enterprise.
Competitive bidding is very much
a case of who is in the game and
how much the other guy thinks
they’re going to bid. It’s not just a
case of profit margins and ex-
penses,”” he said.

Canadian Union of Public
Employees Local 389 president
Mike Hocevar presented the union
case before district council Maon-
day and will appear before North
Vancouver City Council tomorrow

“IPI is in it to

(Nov. 13).

Said Hocevar: ‘‘We've already
got an effective garbage coliection
system in North Vancouver. Our
guys are doing the job here. Why
can’t we continue that?

“IPI is in it to make money.
Why give that money away? Keep
it in-house. For some reason
they’re (councils) not going before
make money.
Why give that money away?
Keep it in-house.”’

— Local 389 president
Mike Hocevar

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the public on this,”’ he said.

The tentative contract with IPI,
the company which collects North
Shore newspaper for recycling,
includes a five-year term (April 2,
1999 io March 3%, 1994). The an-
nual cost for the municipalities
would be $1,106,000, with North
Vancouver City paying $325,000,
North Vancouver District $474,000
and West Vancouver District pay-
ing $297,000.

Because of flat prices for recycl-
ed newsprint, the three
municipatities would also pay [Pla
$35-per-tonne subsidy for all
newspaper collected on the North
Shore from Aug. 1, 1989 to the in-
tended April 2 start-up date for
curbside multi-material recycling
service. The estimated cost of the
subsidy is $110,600, or $33,600
from North Vancouver City,
$47,600 from North Vancouver
District and $29,400 from West
Vancouver.

The recycling program —- based
on service to 59,000 residences,
generating 4,740 tonnes of news-
paper and 7,300 tonnes of other
recyclable items per year —~ will
begin initially for single-family res-
idents and then will be expanded to
multi-family sites.

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