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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 2.1, 1989 PAGE; 2 Todd advised the Council that they will be meeting with Attorney Dayton, at his office, on March 3rd at 10:00 a.m.. An invitation was extended to the Council and City Administrator to attend the meeting for the purpose of discussing Dayton's potential conflict of interest with representing Minneapolis burner constructors versus a landfill that might have to receive the ash from that burner. The City Administrator was asked to draft a. thank your letter to Earth Protector for the Steve Gadler award. B. Recycling Recommendation A copy of the proposal from Bellaire Sanitation, Inc, for providing curbside recycling services at Cimarron Park was provided for the Council's review. A copy of the contract with TMT Recycling, for six months, for the entire City, excluding Cimarron Home Park was provided. Councilman Williams provided copies of his proposed changes to the Bellaire Sanitation, Inc. and TMT, Inc. recycling contracts. Bruce Dunn, Chairman of the Solid Waste Committee, advised the Council the participation rate in Cimarron has not been good and felt part of the problem can be attributed to lack of space for storing recyclables for an entire month. This is why Bellaire's proposal. for co -mingle, twice a month, container provided, 45 cents per month curbside recycling is unanimously supported by the Lake Elmo Solid Waste Advisory Committee, as well as the management at Cimarron. John Maroney, TMT, commented that their service has to be looked at in a comparative manner. The price he is charging for once -a -month service is comparative to everyone else that picks up once -a -month. Maroney found the process of co -mingling interesting and pointed out an article that stated out of 600 programs that are operating in the U.S. now, there was not any mention of co -mingling. There is a program out east which is using $2 million worth of equipment to separate the material. Washington and Ramsey Counties received a $50,000 grant from the Met Council to study the idea of putting in the equipment at the NSP plant to separate recyclables there and found it was not financially feasible to do this. Maroney added he had no objections with the Bellaire proposal, if co -mingling works its great, but he was a little skeptical. M/S/P Williams/Graves - to award a one-year recycling contract to Bellaire Sanitation, Inc., for twice a month curbside recycling in Cimarron Mobile Home Park at a cost of 45 cents per household per month (as outlined in Bellaire's proposal); contingent upon Bellaire Sanitation entering into a contract with the City of Lake Elmo; and to renew the contract with TMT Recycling, for once -a -month curbside recycling at a cost of per month, for the entire City of Lake Elmo, Home Park; contingent upon TMT entering into of Lake Elmo. (Motion carried 5-0). 5. PLANNING/LAND USE/ZONING: six months, for 45 cents per household, excluding Cimarron Mobile a contract with the City