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Page 1 of 2 Kim Moore -Sykes From: Donkers, Dan [dan.donkers@CO. RAMSEY. MN. US] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:52 AM To: Kim Moore -Sykes Cc: Schiferl, Norm Subject: RE: MultiFamily Recycling Kim, The policy stated in the Ramsey County Solid Waste Master Plan is: "Ramsey County requires municipalities to assure recycling service is available to all residents at their place of residence. Ramsey County encourages a level of service that will maximize residential recycling, but requires the following minimum levels of service: a. Municipalities with 5,000 or more in population must assure collection of at least four broad types of materials at least twice per month to all residents. b. Municipalities under 5,000 in population must assure collection of at least three broad types of materials at least once per month to all residents, but are strongly encouraged to assure collection of at least four broad types of materials at least twice per month." And ordinance requirement is a very good mechanism to assure that the City has something to stand on when talking to property owners/managers about establishing recycling for their residents. It is not the only tool, but it is a good one. What is your timeframe for this research? It is possible Ramsey County's consulting team of RW Beck and Dan Krivit & Assoc. could provide some assistance in looking at what other cities have done. Norm Schiferl manages the contract with Beck/Krivit and would have to determine whether there is funding on our side to add St. Anthony to the list of cities receiving assistance, and work out the scope of services being provided. You can talk with Norm about that if you're interested. If you are short on time, it might not work as well to tap into our consultant team. Instead, you could call a few cities to talk with them about what mechanisms they use. Several cities contract for the service, along with single- family, though if St. Anthony isn't interested in going into a contract situation, there are other ways. I would suggest contacting your fellow recycling coordinators in Maplewood (DuWayne Konewko), New Brighton (Dave Fridgen), or North St. Paul (Keith Stachowski is a new coordinator, so you may want to talk to his predecesor, Brian Frandle). These three cities passed ordinances in recent years. Mounds View (Tracy Juell) did not adopt an ordinance, but did adopt some requirements in their housing occupany code. As for enforcement, inspectors in New Brighton and Mounds View, for example, check on the status.of recycling services when they do their annual inspections for multi -family properties. I think North St. Paul is starting to do that as well. Little Canada has had an ordinance on the books for years, as has Vadnais Heights. It is also worth considering an ordinance requirement that haulers to offer recycling service to the multi -family customers they serve, similar to how the city has set up a requirement to serve single-family. The property would not have to use the hauler for both recycling and trash, they could collect and haul the recycling themselves or go with a recycling service separate from their trash hauler (e.g., Eureka Recycling), but at least having an ordinance that requires haulers to offer the service takes one argument away from a property owner that the service isn't available. Hope that helps. Dan -----Original Message ----- 9/20/2006 13