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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 10-16-84 PAGE 2 The negotiation process is a two stage procurement process. The Commissioners do have the option to end it if they want to select one of these vendors. If they don't select one of these vendors, they will go back to the mass burn option. However, the numbers and the economics related to mass burn may still not be conducive to building that type of facility because they were starting to get out of the range that was acceptable for the Counties to participate, whereas the RDF was significantly less expensive and within the range (although it costs more in landfills) of what they expected an alternative to landfills to cost. The target schedule on the entire negotiation process is December 7th, 1984 because they are trying to determine if they can sell bonds by the end of the year because of the federal restrictions on the use of industrial development bonds. To do that, they would have to have the bids and the signed agreements by December 7, 1984. The decision on the site is anticipated to be finalized the week of October 22, 1984, because when the vendors prepare their bid packages it has to be in concert with what site they are going to build this facility on. The burden is on the vendors to select a site as soon as possible so they can prepare their c6struction bids. The committee is asking the County Boards to make a decision by December 14, 1984. Morgan stated he felt the advantages from the City of Lake Elmo's point of view for the mass burn facility would be less truck traffic and less residue to landfills, and the residue would probably be less dangerous. The disadvantage would be the smoke coming out of the stack. Wood stated the residues from these facilites are somewhat different because with RDF you produce a fuel and that fuel is being taken down to Red Wing, so the ash residue will be down there. What they separate out are metals, etc. that are not burned but taken to the landfills (which would be taken to a landfill anyway). With a mass burn facility, the residues are all in one group and then burned. and you do have the opportunity to change the chemical components of the materials. There are advantages and disadvantages to both options that have to be weighed. Morgan stated that a mass burn facility will destroy most of the organic material, and that includes hydrocarbons, etc. that are causing all of the problems. Wood stated that with an RDF facility, an attempt will be made to remove those materials, but obviously the solvents in the quantities that they get will either be absorbed into the material left for making ore, or will be treated and managed as a hazardous waste. Eder pointed out that assuming that the RDF process is selected, the only approved supported conditions by the Lake Elmo residents is the mass burn facility. If something other than that is proposed for Lake Elmo, we would have to talk about it again. He also asked if the $75,000 that was requested for planning purposes in Section 32 if the mass burn process started to move towards reality was still in the budget. Wood responded that that amount is still in the budget. i i"