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I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />! <br />I <br />! <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />CASE # 5 <br /> <br />SOLID WASTE AND CURBSIDE RECYCLING PROGRAMS <br /> By: James D. Gromberg, Project Manager <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />The City of Ramsey is required by State Statute to provide that each resident has refuse service. <br />The City currently fulfills these requirements by requiring each resident by ordinance to have <br />refuse service. Staff recently interviewed the seven (7) licensed haulers as to the number of <br />residential customers they serve in the City. A total of 3,933 households are currently receiving <br />service from licensed haulers. This accounts for 94 percent (3,933 + 4,195') of the households in <br />the City. This leaves 6 percent that do not currently have refuse service or are unoccupied <br />dwellings in the City. <br /> <br />*Estimate based upon building permits issued through September 1993. <br /> <br />Table I <br /> <br />Acco~ Percent <br /> <br />ACE Solid Waste <br />Beckers Sanitation <br />Corrow Trucking and Sanitation <br />Larry's Quality Sanitation <br />Peterson Brother Sanitation <br />T & R Sanitation <br />Pretzel's Sanitation <br /> <br />2.133 74 % <br />288 7 % <br />428 11 % <br />26~ 7 % <br />630 16 % <br />191 ~ % <br />O 0 <br /> <br />TOTAI_3 3.933 100 % <br /> <br />The City is also required to meet certain landfill abatement goals each year to receive SCORE <br />funding from Anoka County. The funds received for these goals are currently being used to fund <br />approximately 61% of the cost of the curbside recycling program. These funds (currently <br />$32,000) are further supplemented by the restricted portion of the landfill tipping fee. With the <br />landfill's closure at the end of 1993, and the expected increase in the recycling goal for the City, <br />the City needs to reevaluate the way it provides curbside recycling and refuse service. <br /> <br />Therefore, there appear to be two issues at hand: <br /> <br />I) Should Ramsey change the manner in which refuse service is delivered to the <br /> community? <br /> <br />2) Should Ramsey change the manner in which recycling service is delivered to the <br /> community? <br /> <br />To gauge current residential haulers reaction to the above queStions, and as directed by the City <br />Council on June 22, 1993, the City conducted an informational meeting with the refuse haulers on <br />July 21, 1993. At this meeting the following refuse hauling recommendations were made by the <br />licensed haulers in attendance: <br /> <br /> <br />