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JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT BETWEEN <br />RAMSEY COUNTY AND CITY OF SAINT ANTHONY <br />FOR USE OF YARD WASTE MANAGEMENT SITES <br />USING THE CITY’S ALLOCATION OF SCORE FUNDS <br /> <br />This Agreement is entered into pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 471.59 between <br />Ramsey County (the "County”), a political subdivision of the State of Minnesota, and the <br />City of Saint Anthony (the "City"), a political subdivision of the State of Minnesota. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Ramsey County operates a yard waste management system, which <br />includes seven sites for the collection of yard waste from Ramsey County residents; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Organics policy in the Ramsey County Solid Waste Management <br />Master Plan states that the yard-waste and organic waste recycling sites are “only for <br />residents of Ramsey County”; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, A portion of the City of Saint Anthony is within Hennepin County, and <br />City residents within that area have been allowed to use the County's yard waste sites <br />since 2005, pursuant to a joint powers agreement between the City and Ramsey County; <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, The Solid Waste Management Master Plan establishes a goal of placing <br />an organics recycling site in each municipality or within a 15-minute drive from each <br />household in Ramsey County; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, The City of Saint Anthony would like to provide additional organic <br />waste recycling opportunities to all of its residents, in the form of a collection site located <br />within the city, whether the site users reside in Ramsey County or Hennepin County; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, The City of Saint Anthony and Ramsey County have determined that <br />the amount of SCORE funds currently allocated to the City on an annual basis <br />approximate the cost of Ramsey County providing the City of Saint Anthony residents that <br />reside in Hennepin County with yard waste and organics recycling services; <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Ramsey County is willing to make yard waste services and organic <br />waste recycling available to the City of Saint Anthony for a reasonable cost, and provide <br />an exception to the policy identified above to address the practical difficulties of <br />providing yard waste services and organic waste recycling for residents of the City <br />because this City has significant population in the two counties; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City is willing to forego receipt of its allocated SCORE funds for any <br />purpose other than making the Ramsey County yard waste and organic waste recycling <br />sites available to all of its residents; Now, therefore, it is agreed: <br /> <br />