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ceitty a 2 /1teanaaa 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117-1600 (651) 766 -4029 / FAX: (651) 766 -4048 www.ci.little- canada.mn.us MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and Members of the Council FROM: Gregory Schroeder, Public Works Director DATE: May 5, 2004 RE: Cleanup day MAYOR Michael 1. Fahey COUNCIL Jim LaValle Matt Anderson Rick Montour Bill Blesener ADMINISTRATOR Joel R. Hanson The attached table is a summary of Cleanup Days from 2000 to present. The "costs" shown represent charges incurred by the City of Little Canada to collect and dispose of those items. The 2000 Cleanup Day was free to all Little Canada residents and we had record participation of 434 loads. However, you will notice a trend that participation has steadily dropped off to only 120 loads in 2004. In addition, it can be concluded that we are: • Recycling more electronic equipment each year, • Recycling about the same number of tires each year, • Disposing less trash each year, • Recycling about the same amount of clothing each year, • Appliance pickup participation is up and down but holding its own, • Bush has dropped off dramatically due to Ramsey County opening free disposal sites. We will not include this service as part of Cleanup Day in the future. Our primary goal for Cleanup Day is to encourage our residents to cleanup their property /neighborhoods and provide a means for disposal of collected material. We have expanded this goal to include collecting and recycling electronic materials and clothing. We are getting good participation on these items and staff believes we should continue to collect and recycle electronic materials and clothing as a service to our residents at Cleanup Day. However, we would like to confirm this with the City Council. Our secondary goal for Cleanup Day is for the City of Little Canada to break even on cash in versus our costs to the recyclers for this service. To accomplish this secondary goal we have had to raise the charges (fees) to our residents that participate each year. However, we did not raise the 2004 fees from that charged in 2003 to try to encourage more participation, which did not happen. Based on the above, you could conclude that we are seeing a drop off in participation because our fees have increased to the point where our residents are either storing or seeking other means to dispose of unwanted material. Staff believes, that Cleanup Day provides a very good service to - 1 1) :AGregSVCleanup Day \SumniaryiMemo.doc