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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL MARCH 14, 2007 Paul, Vadnais Heights, White Bear Lake, and White Bear Township were surveyed to determine the types of exemptions they allow. All allow exemptions for extended travel, three allow exemptions for residents that own businesses outside of the city, and none allow exemptions for residents that can bring their trash to their place of employment. The Administrator reported that based on staff's review, the following changes are being recommended relative to organized collection exemptions. The first exemption would be to allow a Little Canada property owner who owns a business or rental property within 25 miles of the City to dispose of their trash at their business or rental property, with the rental property needing to have a minimum of 2 yard service. The next exemption would be to continue to exemption for residents who are out of town a minimum of 30 days, subject to verification of water usage. Staff is not recommending that an exemption be put in place for a resident who can bring their trash to their place of employment other than if their employer is a trash hauler. The Administrator noted that verification processes would be put in place for all exemptions. The Administrator noted that the exemption recommendation pertains to trash only, and that recycling service and bulky item disposal would still be provided and charged to the property owner. The Administrator noted the impact that organized collection has had in increasing recycling. In the late 1980's 100 tons of materials were picked up for recycling in Little Canada. Last year 830 tons of materials were picked up for recycling. That amount is expected to increase as the result ofsingle-sort recycling. The Administrator then outlined some of the reasons that the City adopted and should continue to provide organized collection service. Those include saving wear and tear on City streets, decrease in illegal dumping, lower hash collection rates, recycling service, yard waste collection, and bulky item pick-up. Keis asked how many calls City staff received when the 601etters were sent out. The City Administrator estimated 9 calls. He also noted that one of the calls resulted in the City working with a day care provider to get the property into the organized collection system, thus reducing this trash bill by half. Of the 9 calls, the Administrator estimated that 4 or 5 would be satisfied by the exemption modifications proposed. Montour noted that the 60 properties without trash service were exemptions granted by the hauler, even though under the organized collection conhact the hauler did not have the authority to grant these exemptions. The City Administrator replied that that was correct; exemptions are to be granted by the City. 4