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MEMORANDUM
Date: September 13, 1989
To: City Council
From: City Manager
Re: Section 8 Housing Certificates
Attached is correspondence from the Federal Department of Housing & Urban Development
expressing the policy of HUD and the Bush administration concerning the Section 8 housing
assistance certificates. You may recall one of the major concerns of the National League of
Cities, as well as mentioned in my recent memorandum to you concerning housing policy was
the potential for expiration of this much needed housing assistance program. This letter seems
to indicate the federal government plans to continue the certificates. Needless to say this is
good news.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20410-0001
August 31, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR: All Public Housing Authorities
FROM: Secretary Jack Kemp
SUBJECT: Expiring Section ertificates
This is to advise you that the Department will shortly be
providing specific procedures to be followed in replacing expiring
increments of Section 8 certificates with new five-year
certificate contracts. A Notice outlining the procedures is being
developed and will be transmitted to HUD field offices in early
October.
I want to emphasize that it is the policy of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and the Bush Administration to
As you know, the Department's 1990 Budget proposed $667
million to replace all expiring increments with five-year
vouchers. This policy is being modified to reflect a higher
funding requirement ($1.1 billion) and to provide for the
refunding of expiring certificates with new certificates. In
addition, as an emergency measure we recently extended contracts
with 38 Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) which were set to expire
during Fiscal Year 1990. The affected PHAs have been notified of
this interim measure, which extends funding through 1992, when the
respective Master Contracts expire. At that time, the expiring
increments of certificates under those contracts will be provided
new five-year funding.
The replacement strategy we are proposing is intended to
provide PHM with the ability to fully utilize all certificates
which have been provided over the years with no lapse or
interruption in service. We intend to make sure that all PHAs
have contracts with sufficient funding and duration to achieve
this goal.
As I have stated since the outset of my term at HUD,
President Bush and I are committed to protecting families in need
who already receive housing assistance as well as expanding the
availability of housing for other low-income families whose
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shelter needs have not been met. In you, the Public Housing
Authorities, we have vested enormous responsibility to help us
meet our goal. I want to assure you and your residents that our
policy on five-year renewals is firm, and that our procedures are f
designed to maintain a steady, uninterrupted flow of assistance to L
low-income families.
City of Iowa City
MEMORANDUM =
DATE: September 12, 1989
TO: City Council
FROM: City Manager
R E : Pending Development Issues
An application submitted by John P. Muller and Daniel L. Haaf for
approval of a final plat for Hidden Valley Subdivision, a 1.9 acre,
5 -lot residential subdivision located on and north of Rochester Avenue
and on Windsor Court extended.
An application submitted by Furman and Company Builders for approval
of an amended preliminary and final Large Scale Residential Development
(LSRD) plan for Capitol View Apartments, Two, a 104 -unit, high rise
multi -family residential development located at 612 South Capitol
Street.
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City of Iowa City
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DATE: September 12, 1989
TO: City Council
FROM: City Manager
R E : Pending Development Issues
An application submitted by John P. Muller and Daniel L. Haaf for
approval of a final plat for Hidden Valley Subdivision, a 1.9 acre,
5 -lot residential subdivision located on and north of Rochester Avenue
and on Windsor Court extended.
An application submitted by Furman and Company Builders for approval
of an amended preliminary and final Large Scale Residential Development
(LSRD) plan for Capitol View Apartments, Two, a 104 -unit, high rise
multi -family residential development located at 612 South Capitol
Street.
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TOLUNTEER RCTION CENTER
Julie Johnston, United Way 20 E. Market St„
Iowa City, IA 52245
335.7623
Steve Atkins
City Manager
CIVIC Center
Iowa City, IA 52240
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Pam Golden House, Dept, Human Service, 911 N. Governor,
Iowa City, IA 52245
356-6050
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Enclosed are materials on "Making the Grade: A Report on America's
Youth", a national effort sponsored by The National Collaboration for
- - --:.Youth and the Roosevelt Center for Public Policy. As many 400
communities will participate in a local Town Summit Meeting to assess
the future of youth in their community. A televisionspecial will be.
.aired in conjunction withthis effort on September 14th, on ABC and the.
Town Summit Meeting would be held in the following weeks. Also enclosed
is information about the Town Summit Meeting in Johnson County..
The Children's Agenda Problems of Youth Task Force, Teen Forum
Subgroup has been in place and is the steering committee for this
project.
Please contact me at 356-6050 if you have any questions,
,suggestions. With a united effort, we can be assured of the quality of
life for the youth In our community. Thank you for your help and I look
forward to working on this project with you.
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Children's Agenda Coordinator
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TOWN SUMMIT MEETING
WHEN: Saturday, October 14, 1969 TIME: '$:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
PLACE: U of I Oakdale Campus, Oakdale Hall Auditorium, off 965 in
Coralville
CONTACT: Pam Golden House, Children's Agenda Coordinator
911 N. Governor
Iowa City, IA 52245
(319) 356-6050
Johnson County will be participating, along with 400 other communities
across the country in this national project. ABC-TV will be airing a
special entitled, American Agenda: Youth in Crisis on Thursday September
14th, in conjuction with the Town Summit Meetings that follow.
We are currently identifying participants for the meeting. For our
community we will have half youth and half adults representing many
sectors of the community participating. The purpose is for community
leaders and decision -makers to work in partnership with youth exploring
the issues that youth face and to devise action steps to address those
issues.
4 The Children's Agenda has in place the Teen Forum Subgroup of our
'Problems of Youth Task Force to act as the committee to plan, evaluate
and follow up on this project.
Local organizations are working on local report cards to present a
picture of our community for each issue. These will be discussed in
small groups of 12 to 15 adult and youth. Each group will look at all
of the following six issues that report cards will be made on, they
include: school dropout/functional illiteracy, teen pregnancy,
substance abuse, juvenile crime, family violence, and youth
unemployment. Presenter will give short descriptions about each of
these topics at the open of the Town Summit Meeting.
Identifications of participants need to be sent to Pam Golden -House, at
the Department of Human Services, 911 N. Governor, Iowa City, IA 52445,
by September 25th. Invitations will then be sent out the week of
September 25th with response cards, Participant Packets will be mailed
October 7th for review before the Town Summit Meeting.
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Young people are our country's most valuable asset, and yet a growing consensus exists that
something is terribly wrong. Among industrialized nations, the United States leads the world in
infant mortality, juvenile crime, substance abuse and teen pregnancy. Despite mandatory school
enrollment, our literacy rate is below that of other developed nations. Twenty percent of our
children live in poverty. Forty percent of our nation's poor people are children.
In addition, demographic data indicate that the high school class of 2000, which entered
first grade this year, will provide fewer people entering the work force and that a growing
percentage of these workers will be less prepared for employment. Increasingly, as "baby
boomers" reach retirement age, more retirees will be dependent upon fewer workers to finance the
Social Security system. To ensure a healthy and growing economy, all our young people must be
prepared to fully participate in the job market.
While most young people are preparing to lead productive and responsible lives, an estimated,
15 • 20 percent of the population aged 16 to 19 is at risk of not making a successful transition
from adolescence to adulthood.
All sectors of society need to be involved in tackling a problem of this magnitude. "Making
theGrade" provides a sustained, collaborative approach designed to develop and implement viable
solutions to the critical problems affecting youth.
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ABC-TV will kick off the "Making the Grade" project with primo time news specials scheduled
for September 14, 1989, and organizing has already begun for Town Summit Meetings to be held in
over 400 communities across the country.
Young people are our country's most valuable asset, and yet a growing consensus exists that
something is terribly wrong. Among industrialized nations, the United States leads the world in
infant mortality, juvenile crime, substance abuse and teen pregnancy. Despite mandatory school
enrollment, our literacy rate is below that of other developed nations. Twenty percent of our
children live in poverty. Forty percent of our nation's poor people are children.
In addition, demographic data indicate that the high school class of 2000, which entered
first grade this year, will provide fewer people entering the work force and that a growing
percentage of these workers will be less prepared for employment. Increasingly, as "baby
boomers" reach retirement age, more retirees will be dependent upon fewer workers to finance the
Social Security system. To ensure a healthy and growing economy, all our young people must be
prepared to fully participate in the job market.
While most young people are preparing to lead productive and responsible lives, an estimated,
15 • 20 percent of the population aged 16 to 19 is at risk of not making a successful transition
from adolescence to adulthood.
All sectors of society need to be involved in tackling a problem of this magnitude. "Making
theGrade" provides a sustained, collaborative approach designed to develop and implement viable
solutions to the critical problems affecting youth.
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"Making the Grade" will bring together leaders from all sectors of the community in hundreds
of cities and towns across the country to discuss their concerns about youth and to develop
collaborative action plans to address the needs of young people in their communities.
The project components include:
•- Issulne A National "Report Card" on the six target areas listed above. The report
will show how our young people are doing today in these critical areas -• looking at key
parameters in each area and predicting what the situation could be like in the year 2000 if we
don't intervene.
-- Airing ABC-TV Prime Time News Special" on September 14. 1989 which feature the
national Report Card. These network programs will be hosted by major news personalities and
produced through ABC's Youth PLUS initiative, the third phase of Project Literacy U.S. In
addition to describing the scope of the problems, the broadcast will highlight programs that
have been successful to date in dealing with these concerns. Local television and radio
affiliates and the print media will also be used extensively as vehicles for public education.
•• Oreanizine Town Summit Meetings in hundreds of communities nationwide which will be
held following the telecast. The Town Summit Meetings will involve young people as well as
adult leaders representing all sectors of the community -- educators and parents, policymakers,
human service agencies, civic organizations, youth advocacy groups, business and label-
representatives,
aborrepresentatives, churches and synagogues. Together they will discuss the national telecast and
implications of the Report Card for their particular communities, assess the current local
network of youth services, identify unmet needs, prioritize local community concerns, and
develop an action plan for addressing local problems. Ad Hoc Organizing Committees are
presently being formed to begin planning for the September Town Summit Meetings.
•• Providing Technical Assistance Written Materials. d Trainine to facilitate the
Town Summit Meetings and continue the public engagement process in local communities. "Issue
and Option" papers on each topic will be designed to define a problem, describe current efforts
to address it, suggest questions to guide community deliberations, and present a series of
program and policy options for local and national action. A manual and video training will
guide the Town Summit Meeting facilitators through the process.
-• Keeoinv_ The Issue Alive beyond the television special by encouraging continuing
national and local media coverage and supporting implementation of the community action plans.
"Making The Grade" will serve as a catalyst for local groups to develop' a cohesive,
collaborative approach for dealing effectively with problems in their community, focusing on the
interrelated nature of the problems affecting youth and the challenge of achieving coordinated
community methods for dealing with them.
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While recognizing that much has been done, "Making the Grade" points to the need for more
coordinated effort to increase the chances that our young people will fulfill their potential as
viable, contributing members of society. • As an inclusive, multi -faceted effort, "Making the
Grade" offers roles at state and national policy-making levels, as well as at the community
program level for all who are interested.
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To date, convenors of Ad Hoc Organizing Committees have been identified in over 425
communities. To find out if a Town Summit Meeting is being planned for your community or to
volunteer to convene an organizing committee, contact the National Collaboration for Youth.
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LEGISLATIVE FORUM:
1990 SESSION PREVIEW
Date: Thursday, September 28
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Iowa City Public Library
Guests: Minnette Doderer, Mary Neuhauser, Richard Varn,
Bob Dvorsky and Jean Lloyd -Jones
Audience: All Chamber members
Sponsored by: Legislative Council
The agenda includes an outlook for the 1990 Session from each of the legislators,
in addition to an opportunity for questions and answers.
This is an opportunity for legislators and Chamber members to share information
prior to the 1990 Session in an effort to enhance this area's legislative impact on
the state level.
Your attendance is necessary for the success of this forum! Please RSVP
to the Chamber (337-9637) by September 26.
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LEGISLATIVE FORUM:
1990 SESSION PREVIEW
Date: Thursday, September 28
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Iowa City Public Library
Guests: Minnette Doderer, Mary Neuhauser, Richard Varn,
Bob Dvorsky and Jean Lloyd -Jones
Audience: All Chamber members
Sponsored by: Legislative Council
The agenda includes an outlook for the 1990 Session from each of the legislators,
in addition to an opportunity for questions and answers.
This is an opportunity for legislators and Chamber members to share information
prior to the 1990 Session in an effort to enhance this area's legislative impact on
the state level.
Your attendance is necessary for the success of this forum! Please RSVP
to the Chamber (337-9637) by September 26.
JOHNSON COUNTY
T&X(C CLEANUP LAY
A SAFE AND RESPONSIBLE WAY TO DISPOSE OF
TOXIC HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS
WHEN: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1989
TIME: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: JOHNSON COUNTY 4-H FAIRGROUNDS
(old highway 218 south, 1 mile south of the Iowa City airport)
Most household hazardous wastes, when disposed
of, end up at our local landfill. Over time, rainfall
and melting snow entering the.landfill become
contaminated by these wastes. This water filters
down through the wastes, moves through the soil,
and can eventually contaminate our groundvaier.
Once contaminated, groundwater may remain
contaminated for hundreds of years, renderingthai
groundwater unsaf a as a source of drinking vat er.
CAUSTIC HOUSEHOLD CLEANERS: drain
cleaners, toilet bowl cleaners, most ovencleaners.
WAXES AND POLISHES: shoe polishes, floor
waxes, car waxes, furniture polishes, spray dust
cleaners and furniture stains.
SOLVENTS: mineral spirits, turpentine, cresol,
alcohols and naphtha.
LACQUERS AND THINNERS: paint thinner,
varnishes and polyurethane coatings.
TOXIC CLEANUP DAY is SPOT/STAIN
your opportunity to REMOVERS:with petroleum base
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND POOL CHEMICALS
rid your home of an unnecessary hazard and Prot ect FERTILIZERS: vith a petroleum base.
our valuable groundvater. This is a one-time PESTICIDES: any insecticide product. This
programtoproperlydispose ofhousehold hazard ous includes but is not limited to yard and garden
vasteand it's ;FREE, so don't miss itl sprays, ant and roachpovder, moth balls, pet flea
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE and tickproducts, fly strips, personal bug sprays or
TOXIC CLEANUP DAY is open to all residents stick creams, rodenticides, fungicides, algecides
of Johnson County. There is no charge but there is and herbicides.
a limit of 25 gallons or 220 pounds per MEDICINES and DRUGS.
household. HOUSEHOLD BATTERIES.
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Any PAINT including LEAD BASED or aerosol
Start by reviewing the list of acceptable and spray paint.
unacceptable wastes provided on this sheet.FBIOLOGICAL
YOU SHOULD NOT BRING
Collect the wastes from around your home that wing wastes items will NOTbe
apply and bringthem to TOXIC CLEANUP DAY. at TOXIC CLEANUP DAY:
It is very important that you leave these
materials in their original containers and that ES / SHOCK SENSITIVES /ORGANIC
pu do not mix any chemicals together.DES
Volunteers will be on hand to direct you to the TIVE WAS7ES
proper collection site and trained personnel will NDERS/ PRESSURIZED VESSELS
take your toxic materials. Share this information AL / ETIOLOGICAL / PATHOLOGICAL/
with your friends and neighbors. INFECTIOUS WASTES
WHAT YOU CAN BRING . PES77CIDES containing 2,4,5, T or 2,4,5, TP
The following items will be accepted at the (silvex) or kep ones.
Johnson County TOXIC CLEANUP DAY. ' WOOD PRESERVATIVES containing in, tetra or
MOTOR 'VEHICLE PRODUCTS: USE Dpentachlorophenols or anyderivatives.
MOTOR OILS, used automotive batteries, motor LINKNGWNChemicals and materials.
oil additives, engine lubricants, transmission ' These vastes can NOT be accepted at the
fluid, transmission fluid additives, motor oil TOXIC CLEANUP DAY due to present federal
filters, gasoline and diesel fuel additives (all regulations. Please vrap and store these Items
types of gas treatment and gas line freeze-up in a safe place. DO NOT THROW THEM IN
products) and degreasers (all engine cleaners - THE TRASH. Save them for the next Toxic
most of these are also solvents, many come in Cleanup Day.
aerosol cam). FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
JOHNSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT 356-6040
IOWA GROUNDWATER PROTECTION HOTLINE 1-800-532-1114
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Keep the toxics out of our water by participating in the
Johnson County TOXIC CLEANUP DAY
Saturday October 14, 9:00a.m. - 4:00p.m.
at the Johnson County 4-H Fairgrounds
TOXIC CLEANUP DAY
is being sponsored locally by the
JOHNSON COUNTY
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
through fundingfrom the Iowa
Department of atural Resources.
PROPER DISPOSAL OF UNUSED PAINT
LATEX and OIL based paints WILL be accepted at the
Johnson County TOXIC CLEANUP DAY on October
14, 1989. However, ve suggest the following
alternatives for homeovner disposal. The worst option is
to dispose of it in its liquid form in your trash. The best
option is to use the paint for its intended purposes. The
next best approach is to dry out the paint prior to
disposal. Depending on the type and quantity, this
procedure for drying out paint can be lengthy and take
up to several weeks or even months.
1. Find a well ventilated area that is protected from
open flame, children, pets and rain. A well ventilated
garage or shed maybe suitable.
2. For small quantities, less than 1/4 llon(or 1/4 of a
container), remove lid and all ovliquids (either vrater or
solvents) to evaporate. When evaporating oil based
paints, proper ventilation is especially important to
prevent fume buildup.
3. Small quantities can also be painted on cardboard or
nevspaper tow e it up.
4. For quantitiesggrreater than 1/4 gallon, drying in the
can maybe difficttlt and stirring to breaksurface scum
maybe necessary every fev days.
5. To speed the process, especially for larger quantities,
half inch layers of paint or varnish can be poured into a
cardboard box lined with plastic, alloying the material
todry one layer at a time. It maybe necessarq to add an
equal amount of absorbent mat erial, such as kitty lits er,
to help in drying of stains and other oil based paints.
6. When completely dry, discard viih regular trash.
Leavethe lids off the cara so the trash collector cansee
that the paint is hardened.
PLEASE
PRACTICE RESPONSIBLE DISPOSAL
How to find us.
Your home doesn't need
to be a hazardous waste
storage facility. This is a
rare opportunity to rid
your home of hazardous
chemicals. Don't miss it.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1959
Old Newspapers Hit a Logjam
Most mills have
been reluctant to
recycle.
By J OLIN HOLUSHA
GARFIELD, N.J.
OUR after hour, around the
clock, bundles of old newspa.
pers rumble along a conveyor
until they drop Into a large vat at the
Garden Slate Paper Company's recy-
cling mill here along the Passaic Riv.
er. In a few hours they will emerge as
rolls of blank newsprint, ready to be
used again.
The company, a subsidiary of Me.
dia General Inc., has been turning old
newspapers Into new newsprint since
1961 without much fanfare. But now
municipalities are vying to sell their
newspapers to Garden State. And
they are hoping that more mills will
follow in the company's footsteps and
do so quickly. In response to the
shortage of landfill space and pres.
sure from environmentalists, munici.
palities across the nation have man.
dated newspaper recycling
programs. The trouble Is, there Is a
dearth of recyclers.
Paper makers have been slow to
face the facts: Recycling Is the way
of the future and is already shrinking
the market for their traditional prod.
uct. But switching to recycling Is no
easy task. The Industry, encumbered
by huge and costly plants, has never,
been one to react quickly. Paper mak.
ers Ism other obstacles, too, like m
mote locations and depressed prices.
It remains to be seen whether these
manufacturers will wake up and
catch the recycling trend — by build.
ing recycling mills or convening ex.
isting ones that use trees — or wheth-
er recyclers like Garden State will
mole to to fill the gap.
A Common Challenge
But other Industries are no doubt
watching the drama unfold. After all,
the challenge to recycle Is sure to be
repeated throughout American busi.
ness as the public demands stronger
conservation measures. In the alumi-
num industry, which has been strug.
gling with the Issue for some time,
there already Is a range of recyclers.
For now, supply of old newspapers
has simply overwhelmed the capaci-
ty of recyclers, paper industry offi.
rails say. The eight mills in this court.
try capable of recycling newspapers
arc already running at full capacity
and sell all they produce. "There are
a million tons of old newspapers in
warehouses, mills and waste paper
packing plants now," said J. Rodney
Edwards, a vice president of the
American Paper Institute, a trade
group. "In July the industry said
'we're full.' -
Some communities have started re-
cycling programs only to find that
they still have to truck newspapers to
distant landfills. Each ton of newspa.
pers not recycled uses three cubic
feet of landfill space and incurs as
much as 8100 in disposal costs.
Meanwhile, the demand for recy.
cled newsprint is growing. Some
states have passed laws encouraging,
even mandating, its use. Florida im.
posed a 10cent-a-ton tax on non -recy-
cled newsprint, which costs about the
same amount as the recycled variety.
A Connecticut law requires that
newspapers published or circulated
In the state use increasing amounts of
recycled paper, starting at 20 percent
in 1993 and rising to 90 percent. Legis-
lators in New York. and New Jersey
have also discussed ways to increase
the use of recycled newsprint.
If only to stave off more such legis.
lation, newspaper publishers are
showing more interest in recycled
paper. "1 am very confident that pub-
lishers will make a significant com-
mitment to buy recycled newsprint."
said William M. Ferretti, director of
energy conservation services for the
New York State Department of Eco-
nomic Development. He heads a corn•
mince on newsprint usage that is to
release a report next month.
Executives at The New York
Times said they are Interested In
using more recycled newsprint. "We
would favor another recycled news.
print mill in this area," said Walter
E. Mattson, president of The New
York Times Company. He said The
Times would "seek to be involved" In
attracting such a mill.
The Times currently buys about
3000 short tons of recycled news.
print a year from Garden State, or
about 8 Percent of its total usage of
360,000 tons, Most of the remainder
comes from mills in Canada using
virgin fiber.
Other publishers have been paying
more attention to recycled newsprint
as well. "There has been a lot of
Interest in the last few months," said
James L Hutchinson, another vice
president of the American Paper In.
stitute, "There are a lot of discus-
sions going on between publishers
and their suppliers."
The following publishers use vary.
Ing amounts of recycled paper.
011e Gannett Company, whose 84
daily newspapers consume 962,000
short tons of newsprint a year. has a
policy to use more recycled news.
print as it becomes available. "We
are in the 8 to 10 percent range now."
said Shelia Gibbons, director of public
affairs for Gannett.
a Jon hlelkerson, director of news.
print operations for The Los Angeles
Times, said 83 percent of its news.
print, or 380,000 short tons a year.
contains some recycled fiber. The
majority is from two mills in Oregon
that produce a blend of 50 percent
recycled paper with virgin wood.
e Knight-Ridder Inc., with 29 daily
newspapers, uses I I percent recycled
newsprint, said Homer Taylor, vice
president of supply. "We will shortly
be sending a letter to all our suppliers
telling them we intend to be at 25
percent by 1992;' he said.
Publishers Are Key
Paper makers say the interest of
publishers is crucial if they are to
make the transition to recycling.
"From a producer's standpoint, if
you are going to make newsprint, you
would like to know where you are
going to sell it," said John H. Veidt
Jr., a vice president of the Jefferson
Smurfit Corporation, which has two
mills in Oregon. "In most mill start.
ups lately a user was involved, either
financially or contractually."
The paper companies are ander
added pressure because newsprint
prices have been depressed since the
beginning of the year. With newspa.
per advertising linage down this year,
newsprint Is being sold at a 25 percent
discount from the $650 a metric ton
stated price, according to trade jour.
nals. (A metric ton is 2,205 pounds: a
short ton is 2,000 pounds.)
Under these conditions, paper mak.
ers are reluctant to invest as much as
8400 million in a recycling mill —
unless they have a financial safety
net, either long-term purchase con.
tracts or equity investments from
publishers. With the increasing gov.
ernmental pressure on publishers to
buy recycled paper, these kinds of
deals may not be far off, Industry and
government insiders say.
Even now, there are preliminary
sign8 that recycling capacity will
grow. Garden State and Jefferson
Smurfit. the largest recyclers In
North America, are studying the pos.
sibility of building mills in the North.
east. Officials ufseveral Northeastern
states say most paper producers are
considering adding de -Inking equip
ment. at a cost of 820 million to 830
million a mill, to blend to some recy.
cled material.
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For the traditional paper compa-
mrs this push to recycle comes at an
inauspicious time. Many arc lust
completing a budding phase, started
in the mid -80's when paper prices
were rising steadily. About a dnren
new mills and enlargements are
scheduled to go into operation In the
next few ,years. but almost all are
based on tress.
And this new capacity is to produce
an extra two million tons of newsprint
a ,year. and will flood a market al.
ready having trouble absorbing 15
million. Industry analysts say these
conditions — overproduction and de-
pressed prices, on top of pressure to
produce recycled paper — make the
business ripe for a shakeout.
"Polutcal incentives could create
demand for recycled newsprint,
which would cause problems in the
forest products industry,*, said Jon G.
Udell. a professor at the University of
Wisconsin Business School. "The im.
pact could be the harshest on the
Canadian industry."
Nearly 60 percent of the newsprint
consumed in the United Slates comes
from Canada, where mills tend to 0o
in remote locations, with an abun-
dance of Isms and a minimum of
people. But recycling mills need to be
close to the source of their raw mate.
rial: large urban areas. Three of the
five mills in the United States using
IOD percent recycled material have
such sites, in the suburbs of New
York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
The Geography Problem
For the traditional paper compa.
nies, geography will be one of the
stickiest obstacles to recycling. The
economics of gathering up old news.
papers from urban areas like New
York, shipping them to distant mills
in Canada and then shipping the fin.
ished product back are still being
evaluated, Industry executives say.
"The problem is that It has been
difficult to persuade manufacturers
with mills in a forest to Invest in
recycling equipment and go through
ail the travail involved In collection,"
said John Morton, a newspaper Indus•
try analystat Lynch, Jones & Ryan.
"But a is the manufacturers that will
have to solve IL"
Recycling presents another sticky
problem: paper quality. Publishers
have been reluctant to use recycled
paper In the past because It has been
more likely to tear, disrupting high.
speed pressrooms that operate on
tight production schedules.
Recyclers want old newspapers but
little else. Yellow -page telephone dl•
rectories and brown bags, for exam.
ple, color the paper, making it less
desirable to publishers who want a
bright while sheet for a more read.
able newspaper. Coated papers and
slick magazines are equally undesir.
able, it the contaminants they contain
get through filters, they can make
sheets of rolled paper stick together,
causing tears during printing.
Garden Slate pre -tarts nc-spalMrt
.it the warehouses of its sub admi v.
Ilrunn& D'Bba Inc Workers nav the
leads of papers have Included evert
thing front hand owls in a cement
block. "Prople have bled mcchnmz.
nig trip proress, bill nothing other
Than hmtd labor has worked sit far."
said Clare Mullets, manager of pre
ruremeut services.
Incoming material has a hug on.
pact on the economics of recycling.
Bruno & Willia pays $12 a ton fur a
"clean" load — newspapers tied with
lotion string and nothing else. For a
"dirty" load — one filled with shop.
ping bags.lunk mad and other unsuit-
able materials — it charges $20 a ton.
"Newspapers are miching us a les.
son on the Importance of quality In
the marketing of materials," said Mr.
Ferretti. the New York State official.
Paper makers have learned an-
other lesson: recycled paper must
coexist with, not replace, paper from
virgin fiber. Recycling breaks some
fibers in newsprint to lengths too
short to make strong paper, so they
are filtered out. Ten to 15 percent of
what goes into a mill is lost in pro.
cessing, said James L Burke, execu.
tive vice president of Garden State.
And the percentage could rise if pa.
per is repeatedly reused. For this
reason. paper Industry executives
and analysts say Connecticut's de.
mand that publishers use 99 percent
recycled paper is unrealistic.
They also note that newspapers can
be turned into other materials like -
like egg cartons and insulation. "If
there is legislation in this area,- said
Professor Udell, "it should atm for
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Newspapers are dumped
onto a conveyor at the Gar-
den State Paper Company in
Garfield, N.J.
TM New Y>re 14mni Keith A[Mrs
Recycling mills need to be located near the urban areas.
How Recycled Newspapers Are Used
5 Total Newsprint
other
Recovery
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Recycling Household Trash: A Chore Becomes a Cause
By DENA KLEIMAN Recycling at Home Statewide Recycling Legislation
For years, Barb Whittemore never Families Cope With New Rules Does not rallect voluntary programs or those Instituted by localities.
thought about her family's garbage. Fit" of three ankles. In effect or being phased In Pending O None
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Day after day, she simply threw it
oul.
No more..
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Like growing numbers of Amer -
group.
loans, Mrs. Whittemore, who lives In
Regulations and procedures an
'Hamburg. N.Y.. is now ripping the
recycling vary from community to
wax paper out of cereal boxes, rinsing
community. In Hamburg, delinquent
out bottles and cans and bundling
families forfeit having their garbage
newspapers Into neat piles. As the na-
collected; in Woodbury, N.J., non.
Non continues to debate solutions to
compliance results In fines up to $500.
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environmental pollution and wild-
In still others, like Austin, Tex.. and
waste disposal, a subtle but funds-
Seattle, peer pressure and pride duty
mental change has been taking place
have brought oinsured 85 percent
in the kitchens of millions of Amer -
compliance.
Ions. Recyclinghas be;mmea factof
Whatever the impetus, what was
life,
once a private and mundane chore is
being transformed.
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waste stream by 25 percent. Thirty dore Rosuk, a social historian and
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Separating trash far recycling is
only one part of the nation's compo s
effort to protect the environment, and
skeptics question how effective rery.
ding programs ran be without the
participation of manufacturers. Still
others question whether full comph-
ance can be achieved.
In a handful of localities, like Rock-
ford, Ill., recycling efforts have been
canceled for lack of compliance. But
for the most part, such programs ap-
pear to be successful in modifylug the
behavior of entire communities.
"Local governments have been
surprised at the amount of compli-
ance both in voluntary and manda-
tory programs," said Robin Wood. a
spokesman for the Federal Environ-
mental Protection Agency, which
monitors many of the efforts.
As Mrs.. Whittemore put it, "recy-
cling is a definite change to life
style." Here is how the Whittemores
and three other families around the
nation have learned to adapt to the
recycling effort.
To Comply or NOV
Trying to Trick
Trash Collector
Dave Whittemore repairs facsimile
machines. Barb Whittemore Is a
nurse. They have three children, ages
3. to 13, and live in a single-family
home on a well-maintained block in
Hamburg, N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo.
"When 1 first heard about recycling
I resented it a lot," Mrs. Whittemore
recalled. She has a small kitchen and
the idea of setting aside separate
trash cans for newspapers, cans, bot-
tles and other paper was overwhelm -
Ing, she said.
"1 felt like I was living in a garbage
dump;' she said. "1 couldn't stand it
I resented the fact that I had to
change the way I normally threw
away trash."
The first thing she did when the
Hamburg village government Intro-
duced recycling eight years ago was
to try to get around the regulations.
She bought thick plastic garbage
bags so that only someone .who
opened up the bag and sifted through
its contents would ever know there
were newspapers crumpled up along
with everything else. She hid alumi.
num cans In empty milk cartons and
packed them tight so they would not
rattle.
"The time I spent trying to trick a
garbage maul" Mrs. Whittemore de-
clared recently.
It took months, she said, but she
eventually realized that it was taking
her longer to disgquise her trash than
simply to abide by the rules. So she
and her husband, who were remodel -
Ing their kitchen anyway, devised a
txmvenlent recycling closet with
separate storage bins for newspa-
pers, glass jars and cans.
Now, when Mrs. Whittemore hit.
i,hes unpacking her groceries, shr
Lakes the paper grocery bags, folds
them to halt and places them in a spe•
nal cubbyhole in the closet. When she
prepares lunch or dinner, she saves
the empty bottles of pickles and salad
dressing, the tins of Imu cocktail and
cans of beans and lines them up on
the sink. When the meal is done, she
washes them along with the pots and
pans and puts the clean containers to
the closet. Her 13 -year-old daughter,
Jamie, helps rinse and her 10 -year.
old son. Jeff, carries the recyclable
items out to the street for collection
every Friday.
Mrs. Whittemore lakes the brown
paper bags to the supermarket to be
nosed and buys milk in cartons,
paver in plastic jugs. When the
Whutemores eat out at the local fast.
'nod restaurant, they buy the thinner,
.ess expensive hamburgers because
-ev are wrapped in sheets of recy.
clable paper rather than bulky, non.
reusable plastic foam.
"Believe me, I'm not an earth
mother," said Mrs. Whittemore, who
has developed a new awareness of
how garbage is generated. .
"All this does make you think," she
said. "I think about the future and
what It's going to be like for my chil.
dren. I'm trying to tell them and
teach them that the environment is
something they have to think about."
Lowering Trash Fees
Change in Habits
Can Save Money
Susan Bayles, a professional fund.
raiser who lives in Seattle with her
husband and two children, said that
until the. city doubled the fee for
removing her garbage, she never
gave trash a second thought. "It was.
n't my problem," she said.
But Seattle announced II was run.
ning out of landfills and was going to
charge citizens by the amount of rub.
bish they produced, ranging from
$10.70 a month for weekly removal of
a small city -supplied minicon to
$23.55 a month for weekly removal of
the contents of three trash cans.
She took 'the lour -foot -high can.
tainer the city distributed free of
charge to residents for recyclable
goods: newspapers, bottles and cans.
She taught her children which pails
their garbage was to be tossed Into.
She began washing out glass jars and
cans, as required by the city.
The new garbage rates prompted
Airs. Bayles to make other changes in
the way her family lives. She began
buying soda in recyclable but more
expensive aluminum cans rather
than plastic bottles. Instead of using
Motivations to
comply range from
fines to civic pride.
individual plastic bags to hold vegeta-
bles at the supermarket, she com-
bines them into one and separates the
vegetables for weighing. Then she
gives the plastic bag back to the cash.
ier.
"You don't want to feel you have to
deal with garbage in your life." said
Airs. Bayles. "But it you hit people to
the pocketbook, it will open their eyes.
People don't want to think about gar-
bage. But they're going to have to. it's
like pensions."
Avoiding a $500 Fine
On Front Porch,
11 Trash Bins
It is Tuesday afternoon and the
glass -enclosed front porch of Bud and
Shirley Wilkerson in Woodbury, N.1.,
Is loaded with trash.
There are 11 receptacles, including
a white plastic garbage pall filled to
the brim with empty brown beer hot -
les, a white plastic pail half filled
with clear glass mayonnaise and
apple juice jars; a metal basket piled
high with cans that once held beer,
olives and baked beans; a large
paper bag with an empty plastic bot.
tle of laundry detergent; a paper bag
with junk mall, envelopes and a ce-.
real box and still another paper bag
just for other paper bags.
Woodbury, just southeast of Phila.
delphia, has some of the most strin.
gent recycling requirements in the
nation. Not only must residents sepa.
rate newspapers, cans and bottles
from regular trash, they must also
Isolate colored glass from clear,
clean paper from dirty and tin cans
from aluminum and other metals or
risk fines of up to $500.
"Recycling has become a part of
our dally routine." said Mr. Wilker•
son, a tractor -trailer driver. "Every
ume you're about to throw something
out, you have to ask yourself, "Where
dues it go?' "
Not a paper towel is disposed of, the
Wilkerson said, without thinking
first about which receptacle It goes
in. Cans are tested with refrigerator
magnets to see If they are made with
iron. Cardboard boxes are mined for
staples, which are placed with non -tin
cons. Plastic strips are snipped from
cardboard price tags.
Discarded lays are pulled apart
and placed In approprole trash piles.
So are toasters, electrical devices and
tools. When the family's outdoor grill
recently wore out, Mr. Wilkerson re•
moved the plastic handles and wheels
and placed It with the metal trash.
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It is not that trash has taken over
their lives. the Wdkersons say- they
estimate that cleaning, sorting. emp
tying and otherwise rumplvmg with
the new law lakes them only aMml 16
mmutes a day. But it has f:mdamen•
Nile altered how the lamdy thinks
ahem and ulhmaiely disposes of the
items they consume.
When Woodbury's recycling law
TO" effect five years ago, the Witter•
sons, whose three children are now 16
months to 8 years old, said they
argued about where to put the recy.
clable trash.
Mrs. Wilkerson, a former beauti.
Tian who is now a homemaker,
wanted to keep It Out of sight in the
basement. Her husband wanted it
closer to the kitchen and prevailed on
the grounds of convenience and as a
Perpetual reminder of the need to
recycle. (Other families in the neigh•
borhood store the trash on back
decks, under Porches and against
kitchen walls.)
"It makes me feel good," said Mrs.
Wilkerson, adding that when the town
initially passed the legislation she
was confused by what was expected
but has now mastered the routine. "1
feel as though 1 am making a contri•
bution."
In addition to the porch containers.
the Wilkerson keep three separate,
trash receptacles in their cramped
lined with a plastic bag, for wet, nom
recyclable trash and a cardboard box
on a shelf under the stove for clean,
reusable cardboard and paper. Non•
recyclable garbage goes Into—an
empty milk canon In the sink and
able
able. t • implied into the larger recept•
"Since we staved recycling we
generate almost no regular garbage
41 311.- Sirs. Wilkerson said. Nonrrcy
rlahle trash is Collected an Mtmday,
Yard debris on Wednesday and recy.
clable Items on Thursday. Once firs.
Wilkerson put out a carton fullof uld
quilts for disposal on a Monday, irate
quilts are not on the list of recyrlablc
materials. Someone apparently took
the quilts and left the box and the Wil.
kersons received a red warning tag
from the town for the infraction.
"I never mix plastic: and card
•
board; • said Carl Wilkerson, 6, lakml,
a visitor to his room. There were two
receptacles: one for regular trash
and one for paper. Given a new plat..
tic plant for his aquarium. Carl had
turn off the protective plastic wrap.
Ping from the cardboard box. With hov
great pride. he showed the visitor e
he had placed each part in a dtfferen t
basket.
New Routine in Apartments
In a High -Rise,
It's Cooperation
Like apartment dwellers in urban
areas around the nation, Eva and
Martin Starlleld, a retired couple lie
Ing on the 12111 floor of a 2: -story
building in Brooklyn, are just now
learning the rudiments of recycling.
For
the Starfields main y ssociated wwas a ith
gelting money back from the super.
market for bottles and cans. But
earlier this month, recycling was de•
clared mandatory in cartel,) neigh.
One Person's Trash
In a Day...
Pounds of household, commercial and Industrial waste
generated Per Person in the United Slates per day.
4
3
2
1
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19au 1970 1980 1990• 2000'
'Projections for waste generation
Without addl6onal recycling measures
Soya: U.S. Env) wimanbt
PAX00an Agency
runhnuds of New York City. Now the
Slarheks arc being asked la sepa•
rate glass bottles, meal cans and
newspapers in theirtrash.
"It's no big deal;' said Mrs. Star•
field, who is on the grounds commw
tee of the cpeoorative building. Since
the law is m the lest phase, there are
no penalties as of now. The budding
relies on peer pressure to gain com•
plmnce.
Mrs. Starfield stores newspapers
on a footstool in her living room and
when the pile gels too high, she
carries It down the hall to a trash
room and puts the papers in a blue re-
ceptacle provided by the city's D,
partment of Sanitation. Whenever she
and her husband finish off a bottle of
borscht or can of string beans, they
rinse out the containers and put them
on a shelf in the trash room. Nonrecy
clable trash is bagged in plastic and
tossed down a chute.
The recyclable trash is removed
from the trash room daily by building
maintenance workers, who store it in
a specially marked bin for removal
by the city every week.
"Almost everybody's doing it;'
Mrs. Starfield said. "It's our chance
to help reduce the city's filth. I'm
happy to do Il. If we don't, where are
we going to dump all this stuff? The
cemeteries?'-
...
emeteries?"
... And In a Year
ComPosl6on of hash In 1985 Per calorie in pounds
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Books and ma azines
ma
.-Ltiiy'ry1a�
66.2
66.2
4OffbeJPII
Corrugated cardboard
136.0
Mizedpeper': .
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Beer and soft drink cans
Food oris."',,�:; :';:.�.,.-.
4.7
`- 19:6'
Other nonfood cans
6.7
Aluminum cans
9.6
':AI6nnI t'eri7ofj rd •
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Beer and soft drink bottles1
61..7
»Wlrie iitC, yOPD!}JDOTIl4 is _;,':.'�'efi1C
Food and other gglaas
40.2;.
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Total
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IOWA CITY OFFICE: (31B) 331-8100
ICALCN OFFICE: (318) 538 Ie
LONE TREE OFFICE: pn8) 8295400
HLLS OFFICE: j31eI 878. 267
HONOHAN, EPLEY, HAYMOND & BRADOOCK
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
JAY H. H IN IAN
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September 18, 1989
MCRAEL J. BRENNEMAN
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IOWA CITY OFFICE: (31B) 331-8100
ICALCN OFFICE: (318) 538 Ie
LONE TREE OFFICE: pn8) 8295400
HLLS OFFICE: j31eI 878. 267
HONOHAN, EPLEY, HAYMOND & BRADOOCK
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
JAY H. H IN IAN
LLOYO A. EPLEY
330 EAST COURT STREET
GARY L FIAYMONO
P.O. Box 3010
MAURNE A BMDOOCK
IOWA CT', IOWA 02241
PATRICK M PETERS
September 18, 1989
MCRAEL J. BRENNEMAN
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.Honorable Mayor & City Council
City of Iowa City
411 E. Washington
Iowa City, IA 52240
Re: Development South of Burlington Street
Dear Mayor & Council:
Iunderstand that at the informal meeting tonight the council is to I�
discuss the development south of Burlington Street and.I believe this may
involve the expansion of the CBD to the south. I believe the council is
well aware of my concerns regarding ,the past history of this area and
.the Northwestern Bell building and my objections at that time. To repeat I� '
ahem at your meetingwould not be productive for either of us. '•,
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At. the same tire do not want my failure to attend Lobe an.� p;
indication that I have changed my position on this matter. Expansion
of the CBO to the south without the City recognizing its obligation
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to provide substantial reasonablypriced parking for long-term packers = I
and short-term parkers would continue to be unfair to the businesses in!
this area which have provided parking as required by the City regulations e
since the 1960s. Any expansion .without parking favors land developers- 'df
,as opposed to the small businesses in the area who need adequate parking.
Very truly yours, -
HONO AN, EPLEY, RAYMOND & BRADDOCK
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Iunderstand that at the informal meeting tonight the council is to I�
discuss the development south of Burlington Street and.I believe this may
involve the expansion of the CBD to the south. I believe the council is
well aware of my concerns regarding ,the past history of this area and
.the Northwestern Bell building and my objections at that time. To repeat I� '
ahem at your meetingwould not be productive for either of us. '•,
I„
At. the same tire do not want my failure to attend Lobe an.� p;
indication that I have changed my position on this matter. Expansion
of the CBO to the south without the City recognizing its obligation
�
to provide substantial reasonablypriced parking for long-term packers = I
and short-term parkers would continue to be unfair to the businesses in!
this area which have provided parking as required by the City regulations e
since the 1960s. Any expansion .without parking favors land developers- 'df
,as opposed to the small businesses in the area who need adequate parking.
Very truly yours, -
HONO AN, EPLEY, RAYMOND & BRADDOCK
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