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Agenda Section: 9 _1 ��p REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Report Number: 9 2—2 69C Report Date: 5/7/92 STAFF REPORT REC° Council Action: ❑ Special Order of Business CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE MAY 11, 19 9 2 ❑ Public Hearings ❑ Consent Agenda IX Council Business Item Description: SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO ORGANIZE COLLECTION OF SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLABLE MATERIALS Administrator's Review/Recommendation: - No comments to supplement this report - Comments attached. Explanation/Summary (attach supplement sheets as necessary.) ,SUMMARY; Effective July 1, 1992, State Law requires that municipalities of 5,000 or more persons ensure that all households and businesses in the City have solid waste collection service or are disposing of their trash in an environmental manner. Presently,Mounds View does not require that households and businesses have trash service and therefore has no means of determining where waste is being disposed. Furthermore, Ramsey County and the Metropolitan Council now require detailed, quarterly reports of city recycling tonnages and public education activities. With 16 collectors currently operating in the city, each with its own recycling operations and requirements, data collection and public education activities have become difficult to coordinate. These new requirements have caused the City Council to express an interest in changing Mounds View's solid waste and recycling collection system. Instead of allowing each household and business to contract for service independently,the City would operate under"organized collection",which state law defines as"a system for collecting solid waste in which a specified collector, or a member of an organization of collectors, is authorized to collect from a defined geographic service area". The Council may choose to contract with a single hauler(one company or a consortium of companies)to service the entire city or with a limited number of haulers each servicing a specific area of the city. If trash and recycling collection by the contracted hauler(s)were made mandatory,the city could more effectively enforce the collection law and promote city- wide recycling activities and public education. Attached is a summary of some of the approaches that the Council might consider with respect to organized collection and the pros and cons of each option. State Law requires that a particular process be followed prior to the adoption of organized collection (a brief summary of this process is attached). The first step in the process,which must occur prior to any further consideration of organized collection, is to hold a Public -Hearing-and-adopt-a-Resohttion-of-Intent-to-Organize arllectiuhNotification of the hearing would-be-sent to all currently licensed garbage haulers in the city. 11J 1_2 .LeAL Carla Asleson Recycling Coordinator RECOMMENDATION; To schedule a Public Hearing for May 26, 1992 to consider a Resolution of Intent to Organize Collection of solid waste and recyclable materials.