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• MEMO TO: Mounds View Parks and Recreation Commission FROM: Staff DATE: August 30 , 1983 RE: Leaf Composting Program As per the Parks and Recreation Commission direction, staff has been actively pursuing the development of the leaf composting program for the City of Mounds View. We have been in close contact with Brian Golob and Zak Hansen from the Ramsey County Public Health Department for the past two months . We basically have finalized the program from our perspective and are currently in the process of promoting and advertising the program. The major change in the pro- gram from our last discussion has been the site location issue . Staff is very much aware that the Park Commission had prioritized a number of sites for the leaf composting program with the Moga site and state Highway Department site c the top two priorities . Unfortunately , neither of those sites were able to be secured as we could not get permission from the respective agencies who own the property . Staff then proposed that we relocate the leaf composting • program to the west site of the water reservoir next to the city garages . This site location received a number of criticisms and concerns from city employees and consequently the Ardan Park site which was the alternate site selected by staff and Ramsey County Public Health Department as our final location. As can be noted in the attached promotion and publicity literature , we will be commending the leaf composting program on Saturday , October 22 and running for approximately 5 weeks through November 13 . The hours that the site will be open are Saturday, 10 : 00 a.m. - 4 : 30 p .m. , Sunday, 12 : 00 - 4 : 30 p .m. and Wednesday, 2 :00 - 4 : 30 p .m. We are looking forward to this program and feel that it will be a real asset to the residents within our community . As a follow-up with that particular program, we have been meeting with the local rubbish haulers to see if there is some possible tie-in with leaf pick-up and their existing rubbish hauling routes . The rubbish haulers are extremely supportive of the leaf composting program but felt that we should take it relatively slow in year one to make sure that the program is organized and properly established before expanding to include direct leaf pick-up at residential homes . It has come to our attention that the Metropolitan Solid Waste Commission has directed the rubbish haulers to reduce their drop load at local landfills by 15% by 1985 . They currently feel • that in Mounds View, our leaf pick-up is averaging approximately 25% of their loads on an annual basis . So they have become extremely cognizant of the need for leaf composting and the haulers are more than willing to work with us on some type of a fee or possibly free basis to pick 'Jr) leaves directly from residential home site .