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2 • Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC March 2014 The following community engagement tools were used to provide convenient opportunities for comment: ♦ City Council meetings ♦ Open Houses ♦ Surveys ♦ Parks, Arts and Recreation Commission (PARC) meetings ♦ Other community meetings ♦ Solid Waste Management Plan web page ♦ Phone calls, emails, and other electronic/social media 2 City Council The Bloomington City Council has been discussing solid waste management for a number of years. A chapter in the Plan is dedicated to a more complete summary of the history of these City Council deliberations and decisions over the years leading up to the present-date system of services and programs. In 1989 the City Council determined that trash collection for Bloomington residents should be improved to divide the City into five (5) residential hauling districts. Each district has solid waste collection only on a specified day as shown in Figure 1. Figure 2-1 Residential Solid Waste Hauling Districts in Bloomington In 1995 the Council considered further improvements, to more fully organize trash and recycling collection. There were several contentious public hearings, and the Council decided not to pursue the matter at that time. Individual neighborhoods and homeowner organizations, however, pursued limited organization of trash collection services on their own, believing they had the support of the City. In 2010, the issue of organized trash collection was revisited. The Council decided to delay action until the Hennepin County Master Plan was completed. After completion of the County Plan, in 2012, a group of residents asked the Council to again consider implementation of a system of organized solid waste collection.