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Meeting Date: 2/23/94 Agenda Item: P 4 CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION ITEM DESCRIPTION: Proposed citywide garage sale for Saturday, May 21, 1993 SUBMITTED BY: The Solid Waste Commission REVIEWED BY: Susan Hoyt, City Administrator EXPLANATION /SUMMARY: The Solid Waste Commission is proposing the "ultimate" in community reuse and recycling. This is a citywide garage sale for Saturday, May 21 from 9 AM to 4 PM. The St. Anthony Park neighborhood in St. Paul and the Bryn Mawr neighborhood in Minneapolis use this successfully as a community building event. The key items in the proposal are: Those who wish to participate in the sale sign up at city hall and get a balloon by May 13. The Commission will generate 100 maps with garage sale locations which will be available The sale will be advertised in the city newsletter, on the city cable channel, on the city sign and in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The police will be notified so some reserve officers can be on hand if traffic or other problems arise. Participants are encouraged to be courteous to their neighbors, to adhere to the sale day and hours and, where workable, combine locations to minimize disruptions. The funds for the balloons and publicity, approximately 125 to 200, will come from the solid waste revenue fund. The items that are not sold will not be collected by the city due to the costs and complexity of collecting items from some residents (those who participated in the sale) and not from others as well as the overall difficulty of this task. Participants in the citywide garage sale would be permitted to have two garage sales at other times during the year (as stated in the city code). ATTACHMENTS: A Memo from Solid Waste Commission dated 14 February 1994 B Guidelines for garage sale participants ACTION REQUESTED: Discuss the garage sale, ways to promote it and ways to manage any concerns that might arise with the increased activity in the neighborhood. Approve the citywide garage sale with any necessary conditions. Council may want the Commission to contact the formal neighborhood associations (Maple Court and Grove) about this in advance in case these organizations wish to make a neighborhood -wide arrangements.