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-56- Councilmember Hendriksen stated that staff needs to break down a timeline for spending the $635,500. Case #3: Receive and Review Telephone System Quotes; Select Telephone System Proposal Item was tabled. Case #4: Accept Refuse/Recycling Hauler; Award Quote for Municipal Site Service Assistant City Administrator Moore-Sykes stated that in 1999, the Council directed staff to begin an annual process to request solid waste removal and recycling quotes for municipal site service from area haulers. On June 13, 2001, requests for service quotes were again sent to the area garbage haulers inviting them to participate in the bidding process for solid waste removal and recycling. By the advertised deadline of July 16, 2001, staff received a quote from ACE Solid Waste, Inc. Staff received a quote from Waste Management on July 18th, two days after the deadline. The lowest quote received was from ACE Solid Waste. Motion by Mayor Gamec, seconded by Councilmember Zimmerman, to recommend that the City Council accept the solid waste removal and recycling service quote from ACE Solid Waste and recommend approval of the quote for a one-year contract for refuse and recycling service for municipal sites, beginning August 1, 2001. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Ga{nec, Councilmembers Zimmerman, Anderson, Hendriksen, and Kurak. Voting No: None. Case #5: Approve Management Training for City of Ramsey Supervisory Personnel Item was tabled. Case #6: Tax Increment Inter-Fund Loans Finance Officer Lund stated that as part of the 2002 tax bill, effective August 1, 2001, all cities will need to follow certain guidelines pertaining to inter-fund loans on tax increment projects. For example, if the City pays for the cost of a project with its funds-on-hand to be reimbursed at a later date by tax increment, the City needs topass a resolution with the amount if plans to loan to the project before the money is transferred, advanced, or spent. In the past, the City's resolutions have stated the total cost of the project and its funding source as tax increment. The State is mandating that if cities pay for any projects with funds on hand that it can loan to a project with the expectation to be reimbursed with tax increment dollars, it needs to report this specifically in the resolution. For any projects that were completed prior to July 31, 2001, cities are allowed to pass a resolution to bring them into compliance with this new law. The resolution will be used to document all costs that the City has "loaned" to TIF projects during the years, and reimbursed itself at a later date with tax increment dollars. Finance Committee/July 24, 2001 Page 6 of 7 I I I I I I I I I I I I' I I I I I