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the contents of the trash containers at those sites. "In my mind, it is an inexpensive plan," he told the News Leader this week. THE CHAIN OF EVENTS During the June 10 County Commission meet- ing, Patterson brought up the recycling matter during her board report. The merchants would like a program established, she pointed out, and they are willing to pay for it. She added that she hoped it was not too late to include recycling in the new maintenance contract, and she won her colleagues' consensus in requesting a staff report on the situation. Harriott told the News Leader he expected to have that report ready for the board this week. In the meantime, he sent an email on June 14 to Shay and Patterson, outlining the details. On Feb. 26, he wrote, Lisa Cece, the spe- cial district coordinator in the county's Transportation and Real Estate Department, provided vendor information to the SKVMC so it could ascertain some of the details on how a recycling program works. "More specifically," he continued, "we would need to describe the service as follows: "A. Service requirements — number and time of collections, materials collected, etc. "B. Container types and locations (I believe the [assessment] District has indicated desired locations). "C. Central collection bin location and any improvements needed at that location. "D. Special event requirements. "E. Single stream collection or multi-stream collection." (In other words, should different materials be put in separate containers?) "F. Education and promotion, if any. "G. Expectations regarding non-conforming material." (Contamination is a big problem in recycling, he told the News Leader. One bit of food in a recycling bin means everything in that container has to go into the garbage.) Harriott added in his email, "These sum- marize just the general questions about a program. The answers can drive the costs substantially. According to the ordinance establishing the District, it is the District's responsibility to develop these work scope and cost items." In the interview with the News Leader, Harriott pointed out that a recycling program can be as simple as having whoever handles the Village upkeep zip-tie blue bags of recy- clables to fence posts for pickup, or it can entail the use of "more aesthetically pleasing" types of containers. Harriott further explained in his June 14 email, "The complexity in all of this probably comes from government procurement requirements … In the interest of fairness to all contrac- tors, making changes to the work scope after awarding the contract is not really possible." "Putting it all together has been the difficult step," Harriott told the News Leader, refer- ring to the facets of a Village program. "We'll keep working on it. … I've got staff contact- ing the district every week." % Sarasota News Leader June 20, 2014 Page 60