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system more efficient. There are areas of Saint Paul where some degree of informal 'organized' collection is already taking place (e.g. haulers not accepting new accounts in parts of the city where they do not already have a significant number of customers; trading customers). The collection system today in St. Paul is more efficient than it was five and ten years ago. In the last few years, organized collection proposals have again surfaced in Saint Paul from a number of sources. The Elder Council recommended in 1985 that Saint Paul adopt residential organized collection by means of a negotiated contract for mixed solid waste. Source separation would be mandatory and pickups would be made regularly for recyclables (paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum, ferrous metals, and plastics). On -call or specially scheduled pickups would be made for yard wastes and for "special wastes" (tires, tree wastes, household hazardous wastes, demolition debris, and large articles such as refrigerators, beds and springs). The system would be financed either by a special assessment or through property taxes. District 14 has developed a proposal for an "optimal collection system" to be operated through the district council. District 14's optimal collection would include organized mixed waste collection (negotiated contract), weekly recycling collections on the same days as mixed waste collections, and separate yard waste collections. District 14's process would begin with a survey of residents and haulers, to determine their needs, attitudes, and desires about solid waste collection. If the survey showed optimal collection to be feasible, the district council would seek authority from the city to organize collection services. Financing would come from customer fees, plus Met Council and county grants. The 1988 authorizing resolution for the Solid Waste Task Force contained a proposal from City Councilmembers for the task force to consider. The Councilmembers' proposal would have either the city or a nonprofit corporation administer organized collection and divide the city into districts or routes. Haulers would bid competitively on each route. Bids would be rotated across the city throughout the year. The selection of a hauler for each route would be made by a vote of residents served by that route. No hauler would be permitted to have more than a predetermined percentage of stops or routes in the city. On March 30,1989 Glynnis Jones and I met with representatives of 12 residential haulers operating in St. Paul. Mary Ayde, Minnesota Waste Association Secretary and St. Paul Solid Waste Task Force co-chair, and John Cairns, Counsel to the Minnesota Waste Association from Briggs and Morgan, also attended. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the volume -based fee initiative. The position expressed by Don Hinz of Eagle Sanitation was that the haulers do not want to discuss a separate volume -based fee initiative or mandatory source separation because they have already proposed a system which would achieve this through organized collection. The hauler group claims to have letters of intent from 75 percent of the residential haulers licensed in St. Paul. -3-