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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES <br />JUNE 19, 1984 <br />Mayor Eder called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. in the council <br />chambers. Present: Dunn, Fraser, Mazzara, Morgan (arrived 7:10) and <br />City Engineer, Larry Bohrer. <br />1. Agenda <br />M/S/P Fraser/Mazzara - To adopt the agenda as amended. (Delete 6B - <br />Bruce Beutel and add 7A Drainage - Mike Mazzara) (Motion carried 4-0) <br />Minutes <br />M/S/P Dunn/Fraser - To approve the minutes of the June 5, 1984 City <br />Council meeting as presented. (Motion carried 4-0) <br />Claims <br />M/S/P Dunn/Fraser - To approve claims 84956 thru 84999 as presented. <br />(Motion carried 4-0) <br />Waste -To -Energy Update <br />Doug Wood, Project Manager for the Ramsey/Washington County <br />Waste -To -Energy Project stated that on June 12th the project board, <br />which consists of three County Commissioners from Ramsey County, two <br />County Commissioners from Washington County (-Artie chae-fer- and -Wes <br />Scheel), and one representative from Lake Elmo (Mike Mazzara) <br />authorized the staff and consultants to proceed with the preparation <br />of a "Request For Proposal" to issue to potential vendors that have <br />been qualified. The two counties, during the request for <br />qualifications process, identified twenty-two firms that are <br />interested in participating in the construction of a Waste -To -Energy <br />facility. This list was narrowed down to eleven firms. When the <br />project first started, there was concentration on the technology <br />termed "mass burn". A "mass burn" facility takes municipal solid <br />waste, puts it into a combustion unit, burns the solid waste at around <br />1800 degrees and produces some form of energy. It was the intention <br />at that time to sell that energy to the 3M corporation. The board has <br />signed a two year agreement of intent with 3M stating that 3M is <br />willing to buy energy from the counties for a period of twenty-five <br />years. <br />Also included in the eleven vendors that are qualified is a second <br />technology called "Refuse Derived Fuel". This RDF facility alone does <br />not produce energy, but produces a fuel. That fuel can be transported <br />to another facility where it is burned. Because of these two <br />technologies, the County had to go thru a process to address each of <br />these technologies. At the June 12th meeting, the project board <br />decided to go thru a staged procurement process whereby the first <br />Request For Proposal they issue will be to Refuse Derived Fuel <br />vendors. <br />