Currents
February 2019
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City facilities, parks and the beaches.
The City Commission at that time desired to
broaden the language to include all establishments
within the City, and the language does just that.
Phyllis Smith, Collier City, Pompano Beach, FL,
stated that she has plastic straws and since this ordi-
nance has been adopted, she cannot use them any-
more. Therefore, she asked that when the City
comes up with the kind of straws that residents could
use, she respectfully requested that they forward
them to her house at 2437 NW
4th Court, Pompano Beach, FL.
Comr. McGee indicated that
there is a similar existing ordi-
nance within the city buildings
addressing Styrofoam as well.
Therefore, she suggested that the
City
Commission
consider
amending the ordinance and to
expand banning Styrofoam along
with the plastic straws throughout
the City, since we are trying to be
environmentally friendly.
Mark Berman, City Attorney,
explained that initially there was
an ordinance for Styrofoam that
prevented Styrofoam use at city
facilities, concessions, at city
parks, recreation facilities and in
city buildings. Initially, he was
required to prepare an ordinance
for plastic straws the same way
dealing with just City buildings,
and City facilities. There was fur-
ther instruction to prepare and
expand it, in looking at what other
cities were doing, and they scaled
it back and the model ordinance
provided to other cities is what
was done for this item. However,
this does not affect people’s
homes for straws, but it affects
restaurants, food establishments,
fast food and otherwise in the
City. So this adds more to the
cycle in terms of having restau-
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