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Regular Council Meeting October 26, 2015 Page 3 forward with renting the facility. Mayor Hashmi said he was going to donate the chairs for the facility. Pending an updated policy, a Motion to table this item was made by Mayor Hashmi and seconded by Council Member Lancaster. Motion carried, 7 ayes — 0 nays. 13. Receive presentation from Mayor Hashmi and Jerry McDaniel on a recycling program start-up planned for January. Mayor Hashmi expressed appreciation to Jerry McDaniel for his hard work on this project and for undertaking the program. Mr. McDaniel presented City Council with the start-up plan for recycling, stating the only cost to the City would be the actual cost of the five containers. He explained that one container would be used for the "swap out" container with the other four being located at Leon Williams Park, Farmers Market, Wade Park, and the Trail de Paris parking lot on South Collegiate Street. Mr. McDaniel said the City was in the process of finalizing a service agreement with Choctaw Nation Recycle Center at no cost to the City. He estimated saving $226.80 per month in landfill fees and said the proposed program should be in full operation on January 1, 2016. Following the presentation, Mr. McDaniel answered questions from the City Council. 14. Receive presentation from Gene Anderson on creation and operation of a public, educational and governmental (PEG) channel and public information officer for the City, and provide direction to staff. Mr. Anderson said he wanted to inform the Council of the possibility of the City having a public, educational and governmental access channel on Suddenlink Communications and to find out if Council wanted to pursue this. Pursuant to State Law, Mr. Anderson said the City began collecting a I% fee for PEG purpose and under Federal Law the I% fee could only be spent for capital items. Mr. Anderson said the PEG Chanel and public information officer goals were to increase transparency of local government, provide ease access to information, promote City of Paris goals and objectives, and increase trust and confident of the public in local government. Mr. Anderson explained the City would be required to provide at least 8 hours of programming each day on a PEG channel, that the PEG fee would more than provide all of the equipment, and that the City would need to fund one full -time employee and other operational expenses would have to be provided by the City. Mayor Hashmi inquired about the salary of the employee and Mr. Anderson said it would be around $60,000. Mayor Hashmi asked for the City Manager's opinion. Mr. Godwin said he thought it was a good ideal and would like to see the City do this and would hope they could get some partners which would reduce the costs to the City. Council Member Lancaster said it was good anytime the City could get more information to the public. Council Member Jenkins agreed with Council Member Lancaster. Council Member Plata said he was okay with it but instead of hiring another full -time employee, they should explore using IT to handle this. Council Member Clifford said the technology was outdated and that public information channels had been around for a long time. He said this type of information is normally spread out over the internet through various means and that he did not see anything that required a governmental access channel. He said this information could be placed on a high