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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I estimate ~s that it would cost approximately $11,000,000. I would!~ha~lenge firms like Waste Managment to come up with anoth~ w~y of doing business with solid waste than putting it in the::gr~und. I am firmly committed and believe that we have a County Board getting behind it to do anything with that waste but put itin the ground where we can't see it and can't control it. We have formed an abatement team. We are looking at almost every:Way,possible and that does not mean that you and I are going ~o get our dollars back by turning it into energy. I have r~aChed the point where I am willing to look at my neighbor and mYSelf and say that it is going to cost $30-$40 a ton to burn it and!~sc~ub the air; we can watch it there but we can't watch it once we get it into the ground. I appreciate the fact that you want ~o put $15,000,000 on paper and Mr. Goodrich has gone from beauty parlors to landfills tonight, and some of my best friend~ are attorneys, but when it's on paper and we have the worldr as:'~ull of attorneys as we do you're not going to get $15,0~,000 in your hand by snapping your fingers when you have a problem; you and I are going to be in court again trying to clean~ Up khe mess. Arniei~Coxi- This just doesn't affect residences around the land~ill;i I have a business in the area and am acquainted with the problems associated with the landfill. Some good has come out oflthls. After much problems in the area years ago, Waste Mana~e~en~ has taken ~n~tzatzve wzth the cooperation of the City.i iSO~ething many of you may not realize is that when the roads Wer~ bad on Sunfish Lake Blvd., we insisted, and they did pay ~o% t~e right of way for $28,000. They also did not create the °r~gi~al boundaries and perimeter of that landfill. A lot of the~pr~blems that were created are not their own, however, they ~v~ been made to live within reasonable rules in regard to it. Mr. Otter from Waste Management told me that he wanted to be pa~t of this community; 64 acres was donated along the Rum Ri~e= and we are in the process of developing a park there and t ~ca~led on Mr. Otter and he donated $40,000 worth of time and equipment preparing a park for us not on the landfill site. TheY ~av~ improved the landfill operation and if you had to do business i with people in the landfill business, and we have to wheth~ ~e want to or not here in Ramsey, Waste Management does comeithrdugh on some of their promises. In 1967, when the AttOrney!General ruled that a non-incorporated municipality has n~ jqrisdiction to stop a landfill, we have had some real probl~s.~since then and nobody has fought any harder for the contrOls!on that landfill than I have. There are about 11,000 peop~e l~ving in Ramsey and that present site, as it exists today,~ c~uld financially bankrupt the community. Eighty-four perC~t qf our tax revenue base is from the residential popU!~ti~n. Analyze that and you live in one d~mn poor community, whethmr ~ou like it or not. When you have a community with 16% ¢~o~nm~rcial tax base versus 84% residential tax base, you have a re~! p~oblem. The problems that could generate, as it stands today ~h~ther they expand or not, could financially bankrupt this ~omunity. As far as contracts with Anoka, they don't mean a dam~ / thing and you ought to realize that by now. ~e had a cont~act~with~ Anoka that in the Fall of 1981 the landfill would be t~e~ over to the City of Ramsey and we would have some ~ Council/P & Z ~ ~ Publi~ Hearing ~ ~:,,~ Page 21 of 23