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FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES -13- January 26, 2005 Organized Refuse Collection (continued) Mayor Gehrz said we have a pretty good sense of the direction the Council would like to go with this, at least the majority of the Council. She said there are a couple of questions that have come up. One is the question that Council member Lamb raises about all of the haulers agreeing to this. She asked Council member Lindstrom to talk about this. Council member Lindstrom said that he knows that Mr. Doug Carnival has spoken to all of the haulers and all of them have agreed to this. Council member Lamb said that when a meeting was held with Mr. Carnival the previous week, two haulers were also in attendance. The topic did come up that the Hauler's Association does not represent three of the haulers. The issue is: How tied in are the others who were not at the meeting? He saw the two at the meeting nod their heads at this and he took that at face value. Where are the other four at with this? Mr. Douglas Carnival, McGrann Shea Anderson Carnival Straughn & Lamb, introduced himself and said he is legal counsel to the National Solid Wastes Management Association, of which • three of the haulers who operate in Falcon Heights are members. Subsequent to the meeting that was held with Mayor Gehrz, Council member Lamb and staff, and his association, one of the members had an opportunity to speak with the other haulers who serve this community, and it is his understanding that each of the haulers is willing and prepared to sign a binding Memorandum of Understanding including the eight provisions. Mayor Gehrz said that Council member Lamb is suggesting adding another provision, which is use of the resource recovery facility, the NRG. Council member Lamb said that as he understands it, each of the six haulers currently, to some level, uses the NRG. He asked if that was correct and Mr. Carnival said yes. Mr. Carnival said that each of the haulers in his association has an agreement, a contract with NRG, actually with Ramsey and Washington Counties, to provide a certain amount of waste to those facilities. In some cases, it is all of their waste. In other, it is a certain amount stipulated by contract. They are certainly prepared to abide by those contracts for the entire length of the contracts, which is the time for the bonds to be paid off by the facility. So, whatever contracts are in place they are certainly prepared to live by them. Council member Lamb asked if the contracts are through 2007 and Mr. Carnival said yes. Council member Lamb said he would like to see this in the agreement, even though obviously it is the contract that binds, only as an assertion that we are concerned about the environmental • aspects. He thinks the City Council needs to go on record, after all of this work, to say that these are the principles we are trying to uphold. ly