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Mounds View City Council Page Two ~egular Meeting June 8, 1992 CONSENT AGENDA Samantha Orduno, City Administrator read the Consent Agenda. Acting Mayor Blanchard asked if the Council wished to remove any item from the Consent Agenda. No items were removed. MOTIONLSECOND: Rickaby/Wuori to adopt the Consent Agenda as presented. VOTE: 3 ayes 0 nays Motion Carried PUBLIC HEARING: Acting Mayor Blanchard opened the public Hearing at 7:05 p.m. to consider organized collection of solid waste and recyclable materials. Acting Mayor Blanchard read an opening statement and explained the procedure that would follow for citizens to speak at the hearing. Carla Asleson, Recycling Coordinator reviewed the City's options with respect to changing the current open system of garbage and recycling collection. Asleson stated that one of the alternatives available is organized collection and the state mandate requires that the City hold a public hearing and pass a resolution of intent to study several options. sleson further stated that passage of the resolution of intent does not ~bligate the City to pursue any one type of system over another. The adoption of the resolution begins a legally required period of study and discussion with local trash haulers and residents to determine what is in the best interest of the City. Councilmember Wuori, expressed thanks to the Environmental Quality Task Force for the time spent on this issue and has hopes that as the process moves forward the Task Force will see what benefit came from their research. The haulers had an opportunity to express their concerns and the public was afforded an opportunity to ask questions and express their concerns. The following were the comments made by the haulers and the residents. Mr. William Werner, Sr. asked what the purpose was of this meeting. Acting Mayor Blanchard stated that the public hearing is being held to obtain resident input, ideas and comments regarding a change to the City's hauling system. Councilmember Rickaby stated that the state mandate was not a question at the time this process of looking at organized collection began. The Environmental Quality Task Force started processing this information a number of months ago. The recommendation was to increase recycling. The EQTF studied what other cities were doing in terms of recycling. The EQTF felt that the organized collection system would be more successful because the City would not be dealing with a number of haulers. If the City contracted with one hauler, this hauler could handle both recycling and solid waste.