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Mounds View City Council ~gular Meeting Page Ten September 14, 1992 stated that State Law requires that all cities of 5,000 or more persons ensure that all businesses and residential households either have solid waste collection or are using an "environmentally sound alternative°. In order to comply with the law, cities may organize solid waste collection, provide the collection or require by ordinance that every household and business has a contract for collection and service Ordinance No. 516 provides that all residential homes, apartment buildings, mobile homes and commercial businesses contract with a licensed hauler for collection services. Asleson further stated that Ordinance No. 516 contains a provision for exemptions in the event that a household or business can prove the satisfaction of the city than environmentally sound alternative to hauler collection will be used. D. VOTE: Linke yes Rickaby es Quick yes Blanchard es Wuori des Motion Carried Don Brager, Finance Director, reviewed Staff Report No. 92-377C regarding the 1993 Proposed Tax Levy and the Setting of a Date for the 1993 Budget Hearing. Brager stated that pursuant to the' Truth in Taxation Law a proposed 1993 Property Tax Levy must be certified to Ramsey County and the City must set a date for the public hearing on the 1993 Budget and the Final 1993 Budget Tax Levy at this meeting. Brager introduced Resolution No. 4284 which adopts the proposed 1993 budget at $3,180,361 and certifies to the County of Ramsey Mounds View's proposed 1993 property tax levy of $1,781,539. Resolution No. 4284 sets the public hearing on the Proposed 1993 Budget and the Proposed 1993 Property Tax Levy for 6:00 p.m. on December 9, 1992 and should a continuance be necessary at a later date it could be reconvened at 6:00 p.m. on December 16, 1992. Councilmember Rickaby stated that she would like to see the amount less than $154,000 because we have always talked "pie in the sky". The time to make cuts is not after the proposed budget is set but before. Rickaby is happy that it is high enough to eliminate the franchise fee which she is opposed to. Mayor Linke stated that cuts have been made to the budget and Councilmember Rickaby should have been at last meeting if she had ideas to share and ways to reduce the budget. Mayor Linke asked if Councilmember Rickaby had any ideas to bring forth as she did not attend the Budget Workshop but chose to attend the Environmental Quality Task Force Meeting. Councilmember Rickaby stated that the budget session was scheduled for a night that she had no conflicts and then the meeting was