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2021 Anoka County Municipal Waste Abatement Grant Funding Application <br />Applications are due September 30, 2020 <br />The City of Ramsey is requesting the following funding for their 2021 Anoka County municipal waste abatement program <br />efforts. <br />General Instructions <br />Please review and complete each section of this grant application carefully and in its entirety. How completely you fill out this form <br />will affect our ability to process your request and the amount of funding that is awarded. <br /> <br /> If the County does not receive a completely filled out funding application from your municipality by the September 30, 2020, <br />deadline, you will not receive funding. If there is nothing filled out in a section for how you plan to spend the funds, and you only list a <br />dollar amount, that will be considered an incomplete section, and the application will be returned to the applicant. <br /> All funding is reimbursement funding. Reimbursements are processed twice per year. No funds are processed until proof of <br />expenditures are submitted to the county semi-annually in July and January as specified in the municipal contract. <br /> The County reserves the right to reduce the funding provided in the event the municipality does not complete the additional grant <br />projects referenced in this application. The County also reserves the ability to reallocate unused SCORE (Select Committee On Recycling <br />and the Environment) and LRDG (Local Recycling Development Grant) funds mid-year if any participating municipality demonstrates the <br />need for additional funds and if funding is available. <br /> Any calculations based on the number of households or population of each community are established by using the latest Met Council <br />data available when the contract documents were prepared. <br />Eligible Expenses <br />The following items are examples of eligible expenses allowed for reimbursement. <br />Collection Expenses: If residents are charged recycling fees for curbside or recycling events, waste abatement funds will reimburse the <br />difference between the fees collected and the cost of recycling or composting the materials. <br />Equipment: The cost to purchase, maintain and repair equipment that is used exclusively to operate the recycling or composting <br />program. <br />Containers: The cost for recycling or organics containers. <br />Promotion: The entire cost of a publication if totally dedicated to waste reduction, recycling or composting information or a percentage <br />of the cost for the portion of a municipal publication dedicated to waste management information. <br />Staffing: Salary and benefits to cover a portion of full-time or part-time recycling program staff who are directly working on the planning, <br />implementation and promotion of waste reduction, recycling and composting programs can be covered with base funding. <br />Page 1 of 7 <br /> <br />