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• REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Agenda Section: 2. n11708 NOT STAFF REPORT Report Number: ASS TX:NPD - W Report Date: 7/6/9 3 AGENDA SESSION DATE July 6, 1993 p (Complaints of Flooded Yards , Basements) DISPOSITION Item Description: Rental of trash pumps to the residents of Mounds View Administrator's Review/Recommendation: - No comments to supplement this report (N, - Comments attached. Explanation/Summary (attach supplement she. .•cessary.) SUMMARY; Staff requests direction from Council in regards to the loaning of trash pumps to our residents. The "unwritten" policy now is that when a resident calls and asks for a ,pump, two of our maintenance employees brings out the pump and necessary hoses. Because of the latest weather episodes, maintenance has been spending at least 2 hours a day, if pumps are needed, transporting, setting up, keeping them gased and running and then picking them up again when finished. Staff feels the City of Mounds View should have a written policy in regards to loaning trash pumps out to the residents. The City can implicate some or all of the following to the policy: The resident shall rent the trash pump at a fee of $52.00. Calculated as follows: $25.00 for pump, $6.00 for suction hose and $21.00 for 150 foot discharge hose. (Staff contacted Rent-All and they rent their pumps at a rate of $24 .95 for 4 hours minimum or $40.95 per day, suction hose at $5.95 for 4 hours minimum or $10.95 per day and for a 25 foot discharge hose $4.95 for 4 hours minimum or $8.95 per day or for a 50ft hose at $6.95 for 4 hours minimum or $10.95 per day. ) The trash pump must be picked up at the City garage during our working hours. The exception would be for a callout then the pump would be delivered/picked up. If a trash pump is delivered/picked up on a callout, the callout would be an additional $94.24. ($23 .56 OT rate for 2 men x 2 hours = $94.24) Staff poled surrounding Cities concerning their policies, if any, on loaning trash pumps out to their residents, the following are the results: New Brighton: As a practice no. Resident must rent one themselves. Fridley: As a practice no. Resident must rent one themselves. Coon Rapids: As a practice no. Resident must rent one themselves. Roseville: They do not loan out. Blaine: Yes they loan out if its something the City inadvertingly caused, such as a holding pond. RECOMMENDATION; Establish a City policy in regards to the loaning of trash pumps to the residents of Mounds View.