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<br />çc Ie> <br /> <br />Attachment 2 <br /> <br />Operation of the Retrieval Program <br /> <br />1. Once the ordinance is adopted, the City will communicate with all retailers with shopping <br />carts to familiarize them with requirements. Compliance with the requirement for signs on <br />carts is important because the City will bear the cost of retrieving carts without <br />identification signs. <br /> <br />2. The City will hire a retrieval company to pickup all carts in public areas, such as streets, <br />sidewalks, train station, parks, and public parking lots and garages. In the ordinance the <br />term "public property" includes the common area of any building, businesses premises, <br />apartment building or complex, or other premises or portion thereof which is adjacent to <br />public property, open to the public, and which contains a shopping cart or shopping carts <br />visible at street or ground level from the adjacent public property. <br /> <br />3. Initially, there will be an "amnesty weekend" during which time the retrieval company will <br />pick up all carts in the City, including those which are identified by people calling in to <br />arrange a pickup of carts. A public outreach effort will be made to publicize the amnesty <br />period. It is anticipated that most of the unsigned carts and carts belonging to entities no <br />longer in business will be retrieved at this time and that these carts will not re-enter the <br />pool of carts used by the business community. <br /> <br />4. Retailers who elect to participate in the City's retrieval program will contract individually <br />with the City to retrieve stray carts and return them to the store. Retailers who do not <br />elect to participate in the City's retrieval program will submit an effective plan to the City <br />for approval and implement that plan. Non-participating retailers will submit a report <br />annually by July 1 evaluating their retention of carts. The City may require that measures <br />be added to the plan to improve cart retention and retrieval. These measures must be <br />implemented within 30 days. <br /> <br />5. Participating retailers will pay for the carts retrieved and returned to them. The City will <br />pay for unsigned carts that are retrieved and for carts of non-participating stores when <br />their stray carts are placed in the City corporation yard and picked up within the 3-day <br />grace period. After the 3-day grace period, owners of carts will pay retrieval charges, <br />storage and handling charges, administrative costs, and fines. <br /> <br />6. For owners who participate in the City-wide retrieval program, the prevention and retrieval <br />plan is waived. For owners who do not participate in the City-wide retrieval program, the <br />plan will describe effective measures that will be taken to prevent cart removal and to <br />promptly retrieve stray carts. An indicator that the plan shall be revised to become <br />effective shall be the frequent appearance in the City corporation yard of carts belonging <br />to a nonparticipating store. <br /> <br />7. When carts remain in the City corporation yard for more than 30 days following notice, the <br />City will dispose of the carts by reselling them, if possible. <br /> <br />"'~M'" ,-, T' <br />