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General Government <br />2-K Statewide Funding Sources for Local Issues with Regional Impact <br />Many issues including, but not limited to, the implementation of a metropolitan area <br />groundwater monitoring network, emerald ash borer management and the cleanup <br />of storm -water retention ponds, come with significant local costs, and have impacts that <br />reach beyond municipal boundaries. <br />Metro Cities supports the availability of statewide funding sources to address local <br />issues that have regional or statewide significance or are caused by state or regional <br />actions. Metro Cities opposes the requirement of enacting ordinances more <br />restrictive than state law in exchange for access to these funds. <br />2-L Dangerous Substance Regulation <br />In metropolitan regions where most cities share boundary lines with other cities, local <br />bans of dangerous products and substances do not eliminate access to these products <br />unless all cities take the same regulatory action. <br />In circumstances where there is broad local support for a ban and any regulatory issues <br />under consideration are regional or statewide in nature, as evidenced by recent synthetic <br />marijuana and analog drug situations, Metro Cities supports statewide regulation and <br />prohibition of products or substances found to present a danger to anyone who uses <br />them. <br />2-M Private Well Drilling Restriction Authority <br />Cities are authorized to enact ordinances that disallow the placement of private wells <br />within city limits to ensure both water safety and availability for residents and businesses. <br />Municipal water systems are financially dependent upon users to operate and maintain <br />the system. A loss of significant rate payers as a result of unregulated private well drilling <br />would economically destabilize water systems and could lead to contamination of the <br />water supply. <br />Metro Cities supports current law authorizing cities to regulate and prohibit the <br />placement of private wells within municipal utility service boundaries and opposes <br />any attempt to remove or alter that authority. Metro Cities supports funding that <br />can be used to cap private wells. <br />2-N Organized Waste Collection <br />Cities over 1,000 in population are required by law to ensure all residents have solid <br />waste collection available to them. A city can meet the statutory requirement by licensing <br />haulers to operate in an open collection system, authorize city employees to collect waste, <br />or implement organized collection through one or multiple haulers to increase efficiency, <br />reduce truck traffic and control costs to residents. <br />2016 Legislative Policies 15 <br />