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17 JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT BETWEEN RAMSEY COUNTY AND CITY OF SAINT ANTHONY FOR USE OF YARD WASTE MANAGEMENT SITES USING THE CITY'S ALLOCATION OF SCORE FUNDS This Agreement is entered into pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Section 471.59 between Ramsey County (the "County"), a political subdivision of the State of Minnesota, and the City of Saint Anthony (the "City"), a political subdivision of the State of Minnesota. Whereas, Ramsey County operates a yard waste management system, which includes seven sites for the collection of yard waste from Ramsey County residents; and Whereas, Ramsey County provides a portion of its SCORE funds to municipalities for SCORE related activities, and uses some of its SCORE funds for the operation of the County's yard waste sites; and Whereas, the Ramsey County Solid Waste Management Plan states that "Ramsey County will operate a system of yard -waste sites that are convenient, provided at no charge to site users, and only for residents of Ramsey County," and Whereas, a portion of the City of Saint Anthony is within Ramsey County, and City residents within that area inay use the County's yard waste sites, but those City residents not in Ramsey County are not allowed to use the County's yard waste sites; and Whereas, the City would like to provide additional yard waste management opportunities to all of its residents, whether they reside in Ramsey County or Hennepin County, and Whereas, Ramsey County is willing to make yard waste services available to the City of Saint Anthony for a reasonable cost, and provide an exception to the policy identified above to address the practical difficulties of providing yard waste services for residents of the City because this City has significant population in the two counties; and. Whereas, the City would forgo using SCORE funds for any purpose other than making the Ramsey County yard waste sites available to all of its residents, Now, therefore, it is agreed: COUNTY OBLIGATIONS a. The County shall allow all residents of the City, regardless of county of residence, to use County yard waste sites at the same level of service that the sites are available to County residents. b. The County will provide the City with information about site services, hours and dates of operation, and site rules, for use by the City in promoting the sites. c. The County will apply SCORE funds previously available to the City for other eligible uses directly to the yard waste program for the use of the sites by residents as described in 1.a. d. The County will work with the City to cooperatively promote waste management programs. 2. CITY OBLIGATIONS a. The City will forgo its annual allocation of Ramsey County SCORE funds in order to assure services for those City residents that do not reside in the County. b. Pursuant to the Ramsey County Solid Waste Management Master Plan, the City has a number of obligations related to SCORE related activities, that it shall perform, as outlined below: i. The City is obligated to provide for recycling weekly or every other week to people at their place of residence including but not limited to curbside, multi -unit housing and manufactured home parks for the materials required in the Ramsey County Solid Waste Master Plan.