<div><div>Maybe use the fee collected to purchase reuseable bags to be given to anyone who needs one (exclude EBT customers from the fee). After awhile the fee will go down because everyone will have their bags and the money can be used just for replacements.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Best,</div><div><br/></div><div>Jim Kelley</div></div><div class="elided-text">On Mar 27, 2018 8:12 PM, Jacqui Ketner <jacqui@akutech.com> wrote:<br type='attribution'><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I say we all pay it forward, buy some reusable bags for people that can’t afford them and all use reusable bags from now on. <br />Let’s do this. <br /><div>Jacqui</div><div><br />On Mar 27, 2018, at 8:04 PM, Martha Fraenkel <<a href="mailto:mfraenkel@gmail.com">mfraenkel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></div><blockquote><div>
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How is it egregious?<br />
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He’s absolutely right. The ten cent fee per bag was egregious <br />
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On Mar 27, 2018, at 7:45 PM, Michael McGlynn <<a href="mailto:mmcglynn@gmail.com">mmcglynn@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">"Saying that it would inordinately affect
low-income families, Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza on
Monday vetoed a city ordinance amendment that would reduce
the use of single-use plastic bags in the city that would
require stores to charge customers no less than 10 cents per
bag."<br />
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<a href="https://pbn.com/elorza-vetoes-single-use-plastic-bag-ban-for-now-requests-more-community-engagement/">https://pbn.com/elorza-vetoes-single-use-plastic-bag-ban-for-now-requests-more-community-engagement/</a><br clear="all" />
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Michael McGlynn<br />
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