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Subd. 4a.Committee establishment. (a) Before implementing an ordinance, franchise, license, contract, or other means of organizing collection, a city or town, by resolution of the governing body, must establish a solid waste collection options committee to identify, examine, and evaluate various methods of solid waste collection. The governing body shall appoint the committee members. (b) The solid waste collection options committee is subject to chapter 13D. Subd . 4b.Committee duties. The committee established under subdivision 4a shall: (1) determine which methods of solid waste collection to examine, which must include: (i) the existing system of collection; (ii) a system in which a single collector collects solid waste from all sections of a city or town; and (iii) a system in which multiple collectors, either singly or as members of an organization of collectors, collect solid waste from different sections of a city or town; (2) establish a list of criteria on which the solid waste collection methods selected for examination will be evaluated, which may include: costs to residential subscribers, impacts on residential subscribers' ability to choose a provider of solid waste service based on the desired level o f service, costs and other factors, the impact of miles driven on city streets and alleys and the incremental impact of miles driven by collection vehicles, initial and operating costs to the city of implementing the solid waste collection system, providing incentives for waste reduction, impacts on solid waste collectors, and other physical, economic, fiscal, social, environmental, and aesthetic impacts; (3) collect information regarding the operation and efficacy of existing methods of solid waste collect ion in other cities and towns; (4) seek input from, at a minimum: (i) the governing body of the city or town; (ii) the local official of the city or town responsible for solid waste issues; (iii) persons currently licensed to operate solid waste collection and recycling services in the city or town; and (iv) residents of the city or town who currently pay for residential solid waste collection services; and (5) issue a report on the committee's research, findings, and any recommendations to the governing body of the city or town. Subd. 4c.Governing body; implementation.