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Item No. 9 Type of Business: WK WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Greg Lee, Director of Public Works Item Title/Subject: Recyclable Material Collection Contractual Service Meeting Date: May 5, 2003 Background There are two options a city has when setting up a collection system for recyclable materials: • Require that the company that provides garbage hauling to a particular property to also provide collection of recyclable materials • Create a City operated contractual service All seventeen (17) cities in Ramsey County except Mounds View and St. Anthony, a third of which is in Ramsey County, have organized collection for recycling. Nine cities have contracts that include all households: St. Paul, Shoreview, Maplewood, White Bear Township, Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, North Oaks, Gem Lake, and Roseville. Vadnais Heights includes all households up to 8-plex; the larger buildings are all served by the private haulers chosen by the building management. Four cities only include up to 4-plexes in their contracts: Arden Hills, New Brighton, White Bear Lake, and North St. Paul. Little Canada includes only single-family and duplexes in their contract. Discussion: As per the conditions of the SCORE Grant, Staff must submit recycling tonnage reports, on a bi-annual basis, to Ramsey County, Environmental Division. These reports summarize what materials are being recycled and the quantities of each. Obtaining recycling reports from the haulers can be laborious and often, haulers have different definitions of each recyclable and calculations of tonnages can be misreported, therefore the reports may be inaccurate. Also as part of the SCORE Grant agreement, the City must ensure that multi-