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1 *was just "Republican" enough to oppose giving a contract to only one hauler who he perceived with no competition, could raise his rates J next year; 4 *expected there would be "no free lunch" as far as getting back money 5 from recycling went; and 6 *preferred to deal with his own hauler. 7 Jim Wiehoff, 3508 Coolidge Street, identified himself as "representing 8 himself and other community members who vote" reported that when the 9 predecessor to Waste Management did the garbage hauling, the service had 10 been "excellent", but as soon as Waste Management took over, the 11 service had become very erratic, resulting in garbage being left out on 12 the streets for days at a time. He said he and most of his neighbors 13 had switched to Woodlake because of that poor service. Mr. Wiehoff said 14 he preferred the "free enterprise system" which enabled them to do that 15 and was concerned that if that were taken away now, the residents would 16 suffer from "big corporation" actions which he deemed inappropriate for 17 such a small community. The resident wanted the City to retain some 18 measure of competition by at least contracting with two services the 19 first year and making a decision as to who would serve the City after 20 that on the service those two provided during the testing period. Mr. 21 Wiehoff then suggested that selection could even be made by a vote of 22 the community at the next election. The resident added that he had 23 perceived the Waste Management driver in his area was always in such a 24 hurry that small children in his neighborhood might be endangered. a5 Alvena Law, a resident of Mirror Lake at 4001 Foss Road, said she had 26 to leave the meeting early but was concerned that her complex could 27 not handle the large Waste Management trucks and wanted the residents 28 to be able to retain Larry Saba, the hauler they had now. Councilmember 29 Smooth indicated there were certain conditions related to haulers which 30 Hennepin County had mandated and those conditions had to be met by the 31 Mirror Lake hauler in terms of recycling all the materials which 32 required by the County. He reiterated that if the City didn't meet 33 those requirements, then the County could select a service which would 34 meet them. The Councilmember told Mrs. Law he didn't believe her hauler 35 had submitted a bid to provide all the City's hauling and that might 36 have been because Mr. Saba couldn't meet the County requirements. Mr. 37 Childs told him the hauler wasn't even licensed to haul in St. Anthony. 38 He also pointed out that the City was only addressing the concept of 39 servicing single family residents at this time and would have to look 40 at multi -family service later on. 41 Mike Gondek, 2901 St. Anthony Boulevard, was told the final selection 42 of a hauler wouldn't be made until after the first of the year although 43 the Task Force had recommended the City begin negotiating a contract 44 with Waste Management during the required 90 day waiting period. 45 Mr. Gondek said he was also opposed to giving any single vendor a A6 monopoly on the service because he had seen many instances where that 13