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odds Mayor, Anoka County at 'bill for t990 is $589,044. Both ..... . utilities, at the request of the by Don Heinzman ' pin county's solid we~te to the counties are contesting the tax. I I I I I I EditOr .... · -- The City 0f Elk River is so upset with the Anoke Co .unty Board of Commissioners it has asked its staff to see if stricter conditions can be added to the license for Northern States Power (NSP) Company's RDF plant and the United Power Association (UPA) burners... An irate Mayor Jim Tralle wants to see if the licenses and permits for the two major utili- ties, up for renewal in October, can include provisions requir. ing all rejects from the RDF plant to go to the Elk River Landfill. Because of a surcharge reduc- tion Anoka renegotiated with Henn'epin, the Elk River Landfill lost 160. tons of Henne- waste management landfill in' Ramsey. · At last week's meeting, the El_k River City Council reluctantly cut its surcharge to the landfill in half to make it more competi- tive with other landfills, after being told the landfill would have to go out of business if it didn't have the business from Hennepin County. Bofore the vote, Tralle said he's getting 'fed up" with Anoka County. He said, they won't return his phone calls on the talks that have bogged down on amount of taxes Anoka, Henne- pin, Sherburne, Benton and Stearns counties should pay Elk River on the BDF plant this year. · .... (NSP and UPA own the EDF Last May 23, Anoka County Deputy Administrator Elwyn Tinklenberg said a four-mem- ber RDF operations committee is committed to living up to the promise of new taxes that local governments have been count- ing on.) The latest problem with Anoka County arose when Anoka agreed to give back to Hennepin County taxes on its portion of solid waste dumpedin the Anoka County landfill. That lowered the tipping fee for Hennepin officials who in four hours time switohed the county's business ofhauling 160 tons of garbage a day from the Elk l~iver Land, Il to a landfill in Anoka County. ~moka, continued to page 3 I I I I I I I I I I Anoka had no guarantee Continued from page 1 - As aresult, Chris_Kr.ege. r oflhe~ Elk River Landfill las~. wee pleaded for a 50 percent reduc- tion in city and Sherburne County taxes on the landfill The city cut its tax from $3.20 to $1.65 a ton, while Sherburne County cut its tax to the landfill from $4.45 to $2~20 per ton. Mayor Tralle didn't hide his concern over the agreement Anoka County sign_~ed w~ Hennepin Count. ~'~'ne receives $240,000 m taxes trom 'I'm getting tired of Anoka Co _mty going around our back ond play- ing games.' -Jim Trolle the Elk River LandfilL) ~l'm really getting -tired of ening to keep t~lring it in the chops ~rom -~noka C.oan~'.' L Anoka County .~oin~, ~o.un~ Tim '~antos, ,~nok* uounF, behind our back. and P. ta~Y~oof Deputy Adminis~T. ato. r, ssaa g~mes now that they go: na o Anok= has been st~m-mg sur- the the I~DF p~t in their charge money with me:ropoli- cou=ty," s~id Tra~le. =Now Anoks County is tryin~ ts= count.~es for years. to tM~e the funds out of Sher- He s~id there is no change in hume County and Elk River. ~f the basic sgreement. He did say it comes to the point of refusing that Anoka sz~d ~en=epin to cooperate, the conditions on the burning plan (RDF) will get stxSeter every time they play their silly games.' Council member Dmme I~ro- puenske said, ~V~'e have the same problem .with the RDF plant and now we're having a problem when Anoka County cuts a deal with Itennepin Comn~Y.. It's gettingkind of sick- agTeed tn increase the amount Iiermepin coun~ shares so it is half of the surcharge. At the time, Yantos said, "There was no guarantee what- soever that Anoka wouldreceive more rejects.' The agreement doesn't stipu- late that the waste has tn come to a landfill in Ano'rm CountT, Yantos said.