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TO:
FROM:
DATE:
ITEM 5.5. AND 5.6.
MEMORANDUM
Mayor and City Council
Kendra Lindahl, Zoning Assistant
December 4, 1995
SUBJECT: Ordinance Amendment and Refuse
Hauler Contract Amendment for the
Addition of Corrugated Cardboard
to the Curbside Recycling Program
In order to meet the needs of our residents, city staff is proposing to add
corrugated cardboard to the curbside recycling program. If the amendment is
approved, corrugated cardboard would be recyclable at the curb. At this time
only clean, dry corrugated will be accepted. No pizza boxes, cereal boxes, gift
boxes, milk cartons, or paperboard containers will be accepted.
• City staff and the refuse haulers agreed that there will be no rate increase
for the addition of cardboard. However, because the recycling vehicles will
need to be modified to handle the addition of cardboard, city staff has agreed
to reimburse the haulers for the cost of their truck modifications up to
$1,600. The City has received $7,000 in SCORE funds to administer a
curbside recycling program and part of it will be used to help with the cost of
vehicle modifications.
In order to add cardboard to the curbside recycling program, an ordinance
amendment and a refuse hauler contract amendment will be necessary. The
ordinance amendment will be a minor addition to Section 602.02 "General
Regulations" adding that only corrugated cardboard will be accepted and it
must be clean and dry and bundled with rope or twine. The refuse hauler
contract will simply be amended to add corrugated cardboard to the list of
recyclables. If the corrugated cardboard recycling program is approved, the
City would start the week of December 4, 1995. Every resident will be
mailed the yearly recycling flyer with the addition of corrugated cardboard
and I will advertise the addition of cardboard in the city's newsletter "The
Current" and the local newspaper.
0 Attached is a copy of the proposed ordinance amendment.
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13065 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 490 • Elk River, MN 55330 • (612) 441 -7420 • Fax: (612) 441 -7425
. ORDINANCE 95-
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 602, "REFUSE AND GARBAGE"
PERTAINING TO CORRUGATED CARDBOARD
The City Council of the City of Elk River does ordain as follows.
Section 1. That Section 602.02 of the City of Elk River Code of
Ordinances titled "General Regulations" be amended to add:
3. Recyclables
F. Corrugated cardboard recyclables shall be bundled and tied
with twine or rope, and shall be maintained in as dry a
condition as practicable, free of any other substance and shall
not be placed in plastic bags.
Section 2. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force
from the day and after the date of its publication.
Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Elk River this 4th day
of December, 1995.
ATTEST:
Sandra A. Thackeray, City Clerk
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Henry A. Duitsman, Mayor
• Requested Action
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The City Council is asked to approve the contract amendment and the
attached ordinance, amending Section 602 "Refuse and Garbage" pertaining
to corrugated carboard.
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