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Regular Council Meeting <br />February 9, 2015 <br />Page 8 <br />parking in the rear of the facility for overflow traffic. He said they did not anticipate having a <br />significant traffic impact on Lamar. He said he had not heard of anyone not in favor of recycling <br />and in keeping Paris beautiful. He said they anticipated approximately one and half to two <br />million dollars in annual purchases. Mr. Glick said in summary, customers would come to <br />Recycler's Depot, they would receive money for items that were previously going to a land fill <br />and they would take that money and spend it in local businesses. Mr. Glick said they came to <br />Paris in June 2014, and they wanted to do things the right way, and so far they had done <br />everything the right way. He said they received a confirmation letter in August that this was <br />commercial use and they were properly zoned. He said they received a building permit, and <br />acting in reliance of that permit they began construction and were $250,000 into this project. <br />Mr. Glick said they wanted to continue with this project. He said if for some reason they were <br />unable to do this, they would have no other alternative but to pursue other remedies. <br />Mayor Frierson asked if anyone had any questions for Mr. Glick. Council Member <br />Hashmi inquired of Mr. Glick what brought them to Paris. Mr. Glick responded by saying it <br />only made sense for them to have a satellite facility within a hundred mile radius and when they <br />looked within that radius, they identified Paris as an underserved recycling community, plus the <br />high traffic count on Lamar Avenue. Council Member Plata asked if they shredded aluminum <br />cans and stored them in a trailer at their other facility. Mr. Glick said at the facility in Texarkana <br />they had a machine called a bailer that would compact them much like a hay bale. Council <br />Member Plata confirmed with Mr. Glick there would be no leakage from the cans and other <br />material. Mayor Frierson confirmed with Mr. Glick that the days and hours of operation would <br />be Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mayor Frierson asked Mr. Glick to explain <br />about what happens to the large items, such as a car. Mr. Glick gave the following example: <br />You pull in with a car that is on the back of a flatbed trailer. We have a large forklift that will <br />pick that car up directly off your trailer and it will load it into what we call a high side or gondola <br />trailer, it's an open top heavy steel trailer, so that car will never touch the ground. Mayor <br />Frierson confirmed there would be no crushing of cars. Mr. Glick said they would take cans, <br />copper pipe, kitchen sinks, old appliances, and big pieces of fencing, tractors and other <br />agriculture stuff. Mayor Frierson questioned how they could predict supply and demand, in that <br />they were going to have one to three truck loads a day for things that were not going to touch the <br />ground. Mayor Frierson said it seemed sort of a low volume. Mr. Glick said it was going to take <br />a long time to build up things like copper wire, but the trailers with bigger items would be moved <br />more frequently. <br />Council Member Grossnickle said he had recycled aluminum cans and they make a lot of <br />noise. He asked about the level of noise, and said if you are shooting them into a container it <br />seems like that would be pretty loud. Mr. Glick said they would intermittently shoot them into <br />the container. Council Member Grossnickle said it might get a little loud at times. Mr. Glick said <br />he did not think it would be any louder than the car wash vacuum and they certainly did not have <br />a siren attached to the can machine. Council Member Grossnickle said they had mentioned this <br />was a desirable location, but obviously there were a lot of people in the room who did not want <br />to be their customers at that location. Council Member Grossnickle said they might want to be <br />customers if it were in a different location. He said he did not believe this location was as <br />critical as Mr. Glick believed it to be. Council Member Grossnickle expressed concerns about <br />