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Mayor Latimer - 3 - Included also will be a brief analysis of the performance of private haulers in the May 9 - September 1 interim. The work will be used as an indication of their future performance and their ability to conform to the plan's requirements. As I see it, the main municipal involvement will have to be a strong enforcement program. It's our determination and ability to use the strength of existing ordinances --not our involvement in actual collection --that will determine the success of any organized system. Perhaps improper and illegal storage of materials in the city. TRANSPORTATION For as long as we must rely on landfills it will remain important to extend their useful life. Transfer stations are flexible for different final disposal methods and would actually encourage methods other than landfilling since it would provide a physical concentration of the solid waste flow. DISPOSAL (INCLUDING RECYCLING RESOURCE RECOVERY) This was not mandated by the Council Resolution, but the report will discuss it since I feel this will be the critical area in solid waste for the city. Landfills are an interim solution at best. We will be reviewing and advocating courses of action for disposal which will include resource recovery, recycling, and modular incineration. We will study the relationships of these to St. Paul's district heating program. We are tying these together within our Environmental Protection Agency grant work. Decisions related to the grant will be coming to a head in a way that will tie in very well with our Solid Waste Management Plan. As Director of Public Works I intend to take on the responsibility of doing the report and making the recommendation to you. I don't intend to go out into the community and solicit more input but I would welcome inputs from various groups such as the unions, private haulers, district councils, Chamber of Commerce, etc. and individuals Friday, April 25th, 1980 Memo The private refuse haulers would handle the 13,000 city customers and also provide a rate for senior citizens comparable to our subsidized rate. On April 22, 1980 Don met with Councilman McMahon and Councilwoman Showalter, Frank Rauschnot, George Oxford and Mike Heinz, private haulers, on the Executive Board of the Association. They had been meeting exclusively with Councilwoman Showalter and wanted to resurrect the plan of a year ago which called for a combination of city and private haulers and a negotiated five-year contract based on prevailing wages in the city factor. Obviously this is a tremendous deal for the private haulers. Mrs. Showalter obviously strongly supports this and had brought the haulers into George McMahon and I think was trying to persuade him to take a firm position supporting this and delaying the May 9th stopping of the city collection for possibly 90 days while this would be worked out. We had discussed this at our Wednesday morning meeting with George McMahon present. A year ago, a long- term negotiated contract may have made sense, but I am less in favor of that approach as time goes by. I think the haulers now see their only chance of getting such an agreement is to have the city as part of it and, of course, the higher city prevailing wages would be used and desirable from their part. We must understand, too, that most of the private