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Mounds View City Council Page Five <br /> Ilirlar Meeting September 14, 1992 <br /> Councilmember Rickaby stated that the staff report lists three <br /> options: leave as currently exists, separate garbage and recycling <br /> systems and continue with the state mandate for organized collection <br /> system. Councilmember Rickaby asked for further explanation of the <br /> State mandate. <br /> Carla Asleson, Recycling Coordinator, stated that the mandate for <br /> organized collection specifically states solid waste. Recycling <br /> can be collected separately at this point. All haulers in the <br /> City could still operate in the City. As far as organized collection, <br /> there—are- still 90--slaysiefft--o.-the-_180day -planning-period_if <br /> organized collection is to still be considered. <br /> Councilmember Rickaby stated that the haulers must get together and <br /> decide on a certain day for collection. <br /> Oman stated that a meeting needs to be organized between the <br /> Environmental Quality Task Force and the residential haulers who <br /> would be affected and negotiate a day or two of the week that all <br /> of the haulers could agree upon their schedule. The purpose of the <br /> open hauling system with the zone system is to coordinate solid <br /> waste pick up and recycling which will reduce truck traffic to one <br /> day per week. A separate recycler would reduce the number of trucks <br /> • in the City. There is three more months in the planning process and <br /> if funding is agreed upon the program could be up and running in <br /> three months. • <br /> Councilmember Rickaby stated that she had received a letter from an <br /> elderly, widowed lady who does not want to change haulers because <br /> her hauler also helps her in her home to do heavy chores. <br /> Mr. Oman stated that many of the haulers provide services such as <br /> bag rate and walk up services which are services the residents would <br /> loose under the single hauler system. <br /> Mayor Linke thanked Mr. Oman . for the presentation. Linke recapped. <br /> Quality Task Force was to leave the haulers as they are now and go to <br /> a zone system with a single recycler. Fees would be either collected <br /> through property taxes or through the City utility process. <br /> Mr. Oman stated that the City could set a fee through a Joint Powers <br /> Agreement which would charge each resident $.12 per parcel per year. <br /> Funds are received with property tax fees. Score grant money would <br /> be received in February to pay recycling and the second half Score <br /> grant money would pay for the system. <br /> Ramsey County was the first choice of the Environmental Quality Task <br /> 411 Force as the City would not have to become a bill collector. The <br /> recycling program would then live on its own merits and would not <br />