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WS — Item #3 <br />WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />Work Session Item No. 3 <br />Date: March 2, 2015 <br />To: City Council <br />From: Marty Asleson <br />Re: Recycling Funding <br />Background <br />In 1989, the Minnesota Legislature adopted comprehensive waste reduction and recycling <br />legislation based on the recommendations of the Governor's Select Committee on <br />Recycling and the Environment (SCORE). SCORE is part of Minnesota's Waste <br />Management Act and provides counties with a funding source to develop waste <br />reduction, recycling and solid waste management programs. Ambitious goals for <br />recycling and waste reduction were set for Minnesota counties and have typically been <br />met, if not exceeded. <br />The dollars that the City receives from SCORE is an annual apportionment. There are no <br />guarantees this funding will always be there. It has been a "carrot" to promote and <br />increase recycling at the City level. <br />The City has available in 2015 $41, 900 basic SCORE funding and another $39,764 of <br />enhancement funding for a total recycling grant of $81,674. <br />As we spend money during the year, the money is coded to the recycling account. The <br />account is reimbursed at the time we request SCORE funds (two times a year). <br />Money that we collect from a recycling event is revenue placed into the general fund. <br />Any money that we collect is deducted from the SCORE dollars reimbursement approved <br />by the County. <br />Freimuth Enterprises runs our monthly recycling days. This is set up similar to the <br />Blaine monthly recycling days. The company collects money for the materials. The City <br />gets credit for the tonnage that is recycled that day. Prices for monthly recycling day is <br />advertized at least bimonthly. <br />There are some things that we recycle at the monthly and yearly recycle days that <br />Freimuth Enterprises traditionally does not provide service for. Paper shredding is one of <br />them. Mattresses and old furniture were items that mostly went to the landfill in the past. <br />Since we obtained a container to collect them in, this container will be at recycling days. <br />