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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 12-18-84 PAGE 6 Mr. Dayton will put his proposal in a written form to all parties involved. The desire of the residents on Sunfish Lake is to establish an agreement that would control the level on Sunfish Lake; however, there may be a number of other benefits that could flow from such a committee. The desired goal is to avoid the expense of litigation for all of the parties involved. This item will be on the January 8, 1985 City Council agenda. The representatives from VBWD will be invited to this meeting. 8. City Council Report A. Laura Fraser - Public availability of City Council Packets. M/S/P Fraser/Mazzara - That a copy of the entire City Council agenda packet, which is sent out to the Council members prior to each meeting, be made available for public inspection at the -City Office at the time which packets are sent out to the entire Council. (Motion carried 5-0) Morgan pointed out that at times these packets contain confidential or sensative material, and that the staff should be careful as to what information is included in these packets. B. Mike Mazzara - Waste -to -Energy Update Mazzara informed the Council that the mass -burn Waste -To -Energy Plant will not be located in Lake Elmo. The technology will be different it will be an RDF Plant and will be located in Newport, and the proposed vendor is NSP. The Counties will be guaranteeing at least 900 tons of trash per day to this plant in Newport. Originally, the mass -burn plant was proposed to cost between $60 and $100 million. This proposed RDF plant, including the bonding issue, financing and the building of the plant is going to cost about $25 million. The tipping fee that the haulers will have to pay at the plant will be about $25 per ton. Right now, the tipping fee at Pine Bend is right around $12 per ton. To actually finance, or make up that difference, it still has not been decided whether to charge the homeowners at the point of delivery, or whether it is used as a taxing system. The point is, the cost to the trash hauler is doubled. This does not eliminate the need for a future landfill in Washington County, but Mazzara estimates that it will not be in Lake Elmo. Dunn pointed out that when this Waste -To -Energy plant was first proposed, a lot of citizens and certain Council members were so sure that this was going in that one member even suggested that the City put up front money to investigate and study the impact on the area and look at the best development. The lesson to be learned, is that we should not be to eager to spend money, even when something looks like a sure thing, until it is a sure thing.