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• MEMO TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCrI TRAT• . FROM: CLERK-ADMINIS � 14` DATE: MARCH 1, 1990 SUBJECT: SOLID WASTE COLLECTION Attached for your information is a summary of the results of the meeting you had with licensed residential refuse haulers on February 13, 1990. I feel that it can be safely said that the following conclusions can be reached after reviewing the notes from this meeting. They are, 1. It would be difficult, if not impossible for the City to mandate 100% participation in the solid waste disposal system if the individual property owners are allowed to select their own hauler. Some of the issues that make such a possibility difficult are: • Who chooses the hauler when the resident refuses to contract for hauling? • Who is going to collect the bills, particularly past due accounts? • Who is going to track each individual property in the City to make sure that one of the haulers is picking up at that location? We recently learned on City staff that having a hauler submit reports to us indicating their customers and then placing that information on a map to make sure that each property is having collection is a difficult process. Each hauler has a different way of keeping their records and submitting their information to the City. We estimate an expenditure of at least 8 hours in information tabulation. 2 . All haulers will agree to handle yard waste but not on the same day during heavy periods in the spring and fall. Not all haulers will agree to handle recycling nor will all of them agree to pick up recycleables on the same day as their solid waste collection. Larry's Sanitation indicated that they would not recycle and that they do• not want to contract for recycleables to 111 be picked up from their customers . Peterson Sanitation,