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Some haulers operating in these two cities deliver a portion of the wastes they collect to the RRT Resource Recovery facility in Newport and the rest to other locations. These haulers include: Allied Waste Services Aspen Waste Systems Red Arrow Veolia The city of Rochester is located in Olmsted County who has a long history of waste assurance. Olmsted County constructed a WTE facility in the mid 1980's and utilized a designation ordinance to control the flow of waste to their facility. They currently have contracts with all the haulers to deliver MSW to the WTE facility. The contracts were put in place between Olmsted County in lieu of the County districting the County and developing single hauler contracts for collection in each of the districts. The cities of Blaine, Mankato, Minneapolis, St. Cloud and Stillwater are located in counties that have contracts with WTE facilities. Each of the cities is required under the Public Entities Law to follow their respective county solid waste management plan. Each of the counties (Anoka, Blue Earth, Hennepin, Stearns and Washington) has solid waste management plans that call for processing MSW at resource recovery facilities. The cities of Blaine, Mankato and Stillwater have clauses in their respective collection contracts requiring delivery of MSW to the county designated facilities. The cities of Minneapolis and St. Cloud have municipal crews that deliver to the appropriate facilities (the Minneapolis contract with MRI covers the delivery location). 4.8 Attempts to Organize The five organized cities all have a long history with their organized systems. Attempts to organize were noted in some of the five open cities. St. Paul The city of St. Paul has always had an open hauling system, even during the period 1970 to 1980, when the City actually provided trash hauling service in competition with private haulers. There have been several attempts to convert to an organized system over the years. Recycling collection is organized under a contract with Eureka Recycling. Nevertheless, the City continues to have an open system for garbage. To provide some historical perspective on the topics and past activities, there are five documents from the history of organized collection discussions included in Appendix G. The documents span from approximately 1980 to 1990 and provide a cross section of the history of the discussion of open versus organized collection in St. Paul. Many of the issues of discussion and contention were the same back then as they continue today (choice, traffic, cost, etc.). There have been additional efforts to organize collection conducted at the District Council level in St. Paul. Over the past two decades, there have been isolated but notable examples of individual citizens attempting to "organize" their neighbors into using the same trash hauler on each block or group of blocks. This form of organized collection is generally still based on the authority and choice of individual home owners to contract with their own hauler, but there is a 102 •Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc June 2009