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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes September 26, 2006 Page 4 1 recycling. She reported some communities still treat large multi - family complexes as commercial 2 businesses and do not require the complex to have a recycling program, but by State statute, they 3 are required to provide the opportunity to recycle. Assistant City Administrator Moore -Sykes 4 mentioned Hennepin County had a policy that closely mirrored State statutes. Councilmember Thuesen asked how likely it increased costs would be if the Council elected to adopt single -sort recycling and did many other communities see a cost increase. 9 Assistant City Administrator Moore -Sykes stated she could not say how likely it would be and 10 recommended directing this question to the garbage collectors. 11 12 Councilmember Stille asked if the adoption of this ordinance would provide for recycling, in the 13 R -4 district. 14 15 Assistant City Administrator Moore -Sykes replied it would not if unless we put it in the 16 ordinance. She pointed out the Mounds View ordinance included in Council packets. She also 17 pointed out Little Canada is the only community she did not find with multi - family recycling. 18 19 Mayor Faust stated it was Council's intent to have R -1 through R -4 included in the ordinance. 20 He stressed the appropriate language is needed in order to adopt it. Mayor Faust stated he 21 assumed the pilot program would last for one year. 22 23 Assistant City Administrator Moore -Sykes replied most pilot programs were for a year. She 24 stated some cities have done their own pilot and gave haulers a specific timeframe. 25 26 Mayor Faust asked why BFI was not in attendance. 27 28 Assistant City Administrator Moore -Sykes replied BFI is in contract negotiations with several 29 cities. 30 31 Mayor Faust asked where the negative aspects stated on the staff report came from. He 32 questioned the increase of seven to nine percent as he thought single -sort recycling was reported 33 to reduce the cost for haulers. 34 35 Assistant City Administrator Moore -Sykes replied the information was collected from several 36 communities. She mentioned the increased came from additional labor costs at the sorting 37 facility. 38 39 Mayor Faust commented that for Council to be fair to St. Anthony residents, it would be best to 40 deny the ordinance. 41 42 Councilmember Gray asked if the cities identified used a single source hauler and if that were the 43 reason for the increase. 44 45 Assistant City Administrator Moore -Sykes replied Arden Hills used a single source hauler 46