CC MINUTES 11221988 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

COUNCIL REPORTS 2 Resident's Concerns and Questions About Organized Collection Heard by 3 Council and Recycling Task Force Members During Open Forum 4 At 8:40 P.M., Mayor Sundland opened the public forum on Resolution 88- 5 040, a resolution of the Council's intent to organize solid waste 6 collection in St. Anthony, which the Council had adopted after a public 7 hearing, September 27, 1988. The Mayor told the 25-30 residents who 8 were present that: 9 *the State, under the Waste Management Act, had mandated statewide 10 recycling by 1990 and gave the City the choice of looking into 11 recycling and either establishing its own program or letting Hennepin 12 and/or Ramsey Counties who are responsible for getting recycling 13 established, to do it for them; 14 *Hennepin County had indicated it would pay 80% of the City's start 15 up overhead costs if the City took the initiative of establishing its 16 own program; 17 *the Council perceived it would be beneficial for St. Anthony to 18 operate its own program and appointed a Recycling Task Force 19 comprised of St. Anthony citizens as well as Councilmember Enrooth as 20 the Council's liaison, and Public Works Director, Larry Hamer as 11 technical advisor; 22 he was personally offering no comments on his own perceptions related 23 to recycling, good, bad, or indifferent. 24 Councilmember Enrooth, as well as Task Force members Lauren 25 McClanahan, 3507 Roosevelt Street N.E.; Keith Pearson, 3501 Belden 26 Drive; Paul Norr, 2832 Coolidge Street N.E., responded to resident 27 concerns about the program recommended by the Task Force in a mem- 28 orandum dated July 18th. The Councilmember indicated the Task Force, 29 comprised of Village residents, had met about 5 times, during which they had: 30 *looked at proposals submitted by garbage haulers in response to 31 invitations to submit proposals which were sent to all rubbish 32 hauling companies who are licensed to collect rubbish in St. Anthony 33 now, as well as recycling companies; 34 *had considerable conversation with other residents to whom the Task 35 Force members had access; 36 on September 27th recommended to the Council that St. Anthony should 37 proceed with one hauler, waste Management, to make both garbage and 38 recyclable collections from all the single family residences in the 39 City, perceiving that company had met all the criteria the Task 40 Force had set. 11