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FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES -14- • October 13, 2004 Solid Waste Commission Report on Organized Collection (continued) Mayor Gehrz said the Council needs to decide whether to proceed with a 90 day discussion period and, if so, what kind of distribution of information and public input process the Council wants to have. There are two-three choices: Proceed with the 90 day discussion period, beginning tonight. This means the residents would get the benefit of the information of the study. 2. Not proceed. If the Council chooses to not proceed, the Council would say thank you very much to the Solid Waste Commission and to the staff for the hard work. The Council would try to proceed with some kind of Memorandum of Understanding, voluntary, on the part of the haulers. We would shelve the report and ask the Solid Waste Commission to focus on recycling and the residents of the community would not see the result of the study. 3. The third option would be something else that is neither of those two. Council member Lamb said he would like to make a proposal and see if the discussion can be • narrowed down to three questions: 1. Whether to call the study period to an end and open the discussion period. 2. Discuss what summary means. A lot of people have done a lot of work. The haulers have put a lot of work into their proposal. The Solid Waste Commission has put a lot of work into their proposal. There are about 70 pages in this document. He can see places where some of it can be cut down, but if summary means ten pages, he would be against that. The executive summary is two pages, the full report is 70 pages, and there is a stack of material about two feet tall. He would offer the haulers the opportunity to rewrite their section, if they want to. We want to represent the arguments as fairly and succinctly as possible. 3. Proposed feedback mechanism. Essentially, he agrees with the feedback mechanism being proposed, but the City needs to make sure that people who don't have electronic access, or don't choose to use electronic access, still have an opportunity to get this material and respond with their comments, questions and concerns in a relatively easy manner. Mayor Gehrz explained, for the benefit of the attending and viewing audience, that before the Council votes on a motion, there is generally discussion. When it seems the Council has a sense of the issues, a Council member then puts forth a motion. Council member Kuettel said that she would like to give residents the opportunity to read the report. Then get back their responses in a format that best suits the City staff. CJ 14