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Samantha Orduno May 13, 1994 Page Three 6. Complaint procedures I believe that we need to develop a process so that Ramsey County can be informed of complaints received by the City. Only when we know of problems can we address them. Perhaps you have some ideas on how to do this. At a minimum, should the City receive complaints, please forward them to Fawzi Awad by phone (292-7826) or fax ( 633-0571 ) so that we can respond. 7. Composting on site vs. transfer site One Councilmember stated that the County promised to use this as a transfer site only. Our records indicate that was never promised ( see attached correspondence from 1990. ) We did say in 1990 that the site would be used as a transfer station for grass clippings, and we have honored that promise. We have transferred excess leaves off site, in order to maintain manageable amounts on site. In 1993 the site received 11,948 cubic yards of material. Of this, 1,560 was grass clippings transferred off site. Of the remainder, 5,888 was leaves composted on site, and 4 ,500 was leaves transferred off site. As the composting process proceeds, the volume of leaves on site rapidly diminishes, so that at the present time the volume of composting leaves is about half of the original volume, or 3, 000 cubic yards. We are removing about half of this to make room for the site grading that was scheduled for this spring. 8. Contractor work hours: I checked to verify that our contractor had worked on early Sunday mornings, and, in fact, he had worked early on several Sundays. We typically assign our contractors to perform a certain amount of work on certain days, and they choose when to do it. We have directed him to not operate on site before 8 :00 a.m. He has altered his work schedule, so that he will be showing up after that, most likely around 10 :00 a.m. We have recently taken bids for our yard waste work, and a different contractor may be working at the Mounds View site beginning in June. We will instruct him about the timing issue as well . We apologize for this inconvenience. After the Council meeting I gave my business card to the citizen who complained and asked him to call me if he had any further concerns.