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Mounds View City Council Page Five <br />~gular Meeting September 14, 1992 <br />Councilmember Rickaby stated that the staff report lists three <br />options: leave as currently exists, separate garbage and recycling <br />systems and continue with the state mandate for organized collection <br />system. Councilmember Rickaby asked for further explanation of the <br />State mandate. <br />Carla Asleson, Recycling Coordinator, stated that the mandate for <br />organized collection specifically states solid waste. Recycling <br />can be collected separately at this point. All haulers in the <br />City could still operate in the City. As far as organized collection, <br />there are still 90 days left of the 180 day planning period if <br />organized collection is to still be considered. <br />Councilmember Rickaby stated that the haulers must get together and <br />decide on a certain day for collection. <br />Oman stated that a meeting needs to be organized between the <br />Environmental Quality Task Force and the residential haulers who <br />would be affected and negotiate a day or two of the week that all <br />of the haulers could agree upon their schedule. The purpose of the <br />open hauling system with the zone system is to coordinate solid <br />waste pick up and recycling which will reduce truck traffic to one <br />day per week. A separate recycler would reduce the number of trucks <br />• in the City. There is three more months in the planning process aMd <br />if funding is agreed upon the program could be up and running in <br />three months. <br />Councilmember Rickaby stated that she had received a letter from an <br />elderly, widowed lady who does not want to change haulers because <br />her hauler also helps her in her home to do heavy chores. <br />Mr. Oman stated that many of the haulers provide services such as <br />bag rate and walk up services which are services the residents would <br />loose under the single hauler system. <br />Mayor Linke thanked Mr. Oman for the presentation. Linke recapped <br />what Mr. Oman had said in that the recommendation of the Environmental <br />Quality Task Force was to leave the haulers as they are now and go to <br />a zone system with a single recycler. Fees would be either collected <br />through property taxes or through the City utility process. <br />Mr. Oman stated that the City could set a fee through a Joint Powers <br />Agreement which would charge each resident $.12 per parcel per year. <br />Funds are received with property tax fees. Score grant money would <br />be received in February to pay recycling and the second half Score <br />grant money would pay for the system. <br />Ramsey County was the first choice of the Environmental Quality Task <br />Force as the City would not have to become a bill collector. The <br />recycling program would then live on its own merits and would not <br />