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-4- residents to get involved in a community effort to keep trash out of landfills so there would be no need for imposition of mandatory programs to get the job done. • The Metropolitan. Councilman had thanked Mr. Childs for his input towards a solid waste management plan which had been modified to allow counties and cities to reach recycling goals with voluntary programs. before 1988, when mandatory programs for separation of recyclables would have to be adopted, if the voluntary programs have not succeeded. Councilman Marks recalled that the City Girl Scouts had at one time been paid for separating the recyclables the residents brought to the Recycling Center. Council- man Ranallo said, since the change in garbage haulers and the lower value of some recyclables, ' the Public Works Director had taken over that job. He and Councilman Makowske indicated they had several persons in mind who might be willing to serve on such a board. Mayor Sundland reiterated, as he had told Mr. Wiger in the past, that he personally had. serious reservations about the City being able to force our elderly and other residents to separate their trash. Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by Counc-ilman Makowske to defer any .action on the April 18th request from Metropolitan Councilmember,Wiger that the City set up a waste management advisory board until the Public Works Director had indicated he would have the time to set up that committee. Motion carried unanimously. The Council next considered the Hance firm request for an increase in monthly contract payments for City prosecutions from $1 ,500 to $1 ,800. Councilman Ranallo noted there had consistently been monthly copying charges of around $25 from the • firm and asked Mr. Hance if including that. amount in the monthly payment would cover any future copying costs. Mr. Hance promised to never again bill the Village for copying costs, if that were done. Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by Councilman Marks to raise the monthly contract for City prosecutions with the Edward J. Hance Law Offices, Ltd. to $1,825 to cover copying costs in addition to legal services by the firm. Motion carried unanimously.. The Manager had presented for initial discussion, the proposed public improvement assessment policy developed by staff to establish uniform allocation of costs for _ watermain; storm and sanitary sewer; curb and gutter; sidewalk or alley; coh-str.uction. or reconstruction projects well in advance of the City's need for undertaking the projects themselves. In his April 23rd memorandum, Mr. Childs underlined the importance of having uniform cost estimates of the various types of improvements as well as some determination of the different sources of funding from which the proposed improvements would be paid. The rough draft of a proposed resolution establishing *such an assessment policy had been attached to the memorandum and several items were given cursory attention that evening, including special cases like cul-de-sacs and MSA roads, which .Mr. Childs indicated could be made addendum to the resolution. Staff was requested to pull , for the Council consideration, all minutes of Council or Commission meetings where policy related to the .assessment of street;l-and sewer projects had been discussed. Mr. -Childs told Councilman Ranallo the City has a revolving fund into which funds left over from previous bond issues have been collected and recommended the practice be continued for future improvement projects. He also explained that the City could levy for reconstruction only in the years in which St. Anthony had not levied to the limit, which is now not the case. The I