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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Meeting Date: April 24, 2018 Request to Implement an Organics Recycling Pilot in St. Anthony OVERVIEW: Attached is a request from Citizens for Sustainability to implement an organics recycling pilot in St. Anthony. Currently the only organics recycling option is for residents to bring their organics to a Ramsey County site in Arden Hills at no charge. This is also available to St. Anthony’s Hennepin County residents. I believe we need to be cognizant that the proposed St. Anthony drop off site serves St. Anthony residents of both counties. If not, we may need a drop off site in each county. If the Council is interested in exploring this option, staff would recommend tasking the Parks Commission to send a recommendation to you on possible sites, costs/grants and a plan to mitigate potential nuisances & illegal dumping. It would also be beneficial to identify other municipalities with organic sites and gather testimony from their respective staff’s opinion on how it is working and if any associated issues. Something to keep in mind is our current five year organized collection contract will be expiring on April 1, 2020. Council may want to consider incorporating a dual-purpose yard waste/organics cart curbside pick-up into the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the new 2020 and beyond Organized Collection contract. Staff anticipates beginning the negotiations in 2019. The current contract is a consortium model with three collectors: Walter’s, Republic and Waste Management maintaining the same market share as prior to the organized collection contract and their pick up locations are now grouped together. When moving from an “open” to an “organized” refuse and recycling collections, State Statute stated the first contract must be a minimum of three years and a maximum of seven years and upon reaching the term of the contract, a city may engage a RFP for a single collector. An opt-in curbside collection service and cost could be included as part of the RFP’s bid items. From my understanding, the dual-purpose cart means the yard waste would be placed into the cart and a certified compostable bag would be placed in the same cart. The dual-purpose cart would not put another truck on the road or an additional cart for those who are utilizing the yard waste service. Also attached is information from Hennepin County stating their desire for Hennepin County cities of providing residential organics recycling by 2022, and Ramsey County’s Master Plan Fact Sheet which outlines their desire for municipalities to have curbside organics recycling by 2025. 49