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Home My WebLink About1995 05-24 CCP Special Session with Crystal City Council COUNCIL AGENDA May 24, 1995 Pursuant to due call and notice given in the manner prescribed by Section 3.01 of the City Charter, the Special Council Meeting of the Crystal City Council was held on April 27, 1995, 7 :00 p.m., at 4141 Douglas Drive, Crystal, Minnesota. Councilmembers Present Staff Anderson, Crystal Dulgar, Crystal Grimes, Crystal George, Crystal Herbes, Crystal Norris, Crystal. Joselyn, Crystal Corcoran, HRG Krueger, Crystal Donahue, New Hope Langsdorf, Crystal Jerry Splinter, Brooklyn Center Meintsma, Crystal Enck, New Hope Norby, New Hope Wehling, New Hope Erickson, New Hope Otten, New Hope Kragness, Brooklyn Center Carmody, Brooklyn Center Hilstrom, Brooklyn Center Kalligher, Brooklyn Center Mann, Brooklyn Center 1. It being 7 :00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, Mayor Meintsma declared this was the date and time as advertised for a public hearing at which time the city councils of Brooklyn Center, Crystal and New Hope will jointly consider organized solid waste collection. Crystal Mayor Meintsma presided over the public hearing and asked those present to voice their opinions or to ask questions concerning this matter. Those present and heard were: Council Agenda May 24, 1995 2 • Crystal Mayor Meintsma closed the Public Hearing. Moved by Councilmember and seconded by Councilmember to adjourn the meeting. Motion Carried Meeting adjourned at p.m. /e') RESOLUTION NO. 95- . RESOLUTION RELATING TO SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL DECLARING AN INTENT TO ESTABLISH A SYSTEM OF ORGANIZED COLLECTION OF REFUSE, RECYCLABLES, YARD WASTE AND OTHER SOLID WASTE WITHIN THE CITY OF CRYSTAL BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CRYSTAL, MINNESOTA (CITY) AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City is authorized by Minnesota Statutes, Section 115A.94 (Act) to establish a system of organized collection of solid waste. "Organized collection: under the Act means a system for collecting solid waste in which a specified collector, or a member of an organization of collectors, is authorized to collect from a defined geographic service area or areas some or all of the solid waste that is released by generators of the waste for collection. "Solid Waste" under the Act includes "mixed municipal solid waste: which means garbage, refuse and other solid waste from residential, commercial, industrial and community activities. • Section 2. The City intends to undertake a system of organized collection. A public hearing on the resolution was held on May 24, 1995, after publication and mailed notice as required by the Act. At the public hearing, all intended parties were given an opportunity to be heard. Section 3. The City staff is authorized and directed to develop alone or with other plans and proposals for organized collection in the City. Persons now licensed for solid waste collection in the City are invited to participate in this planning process. Section 4. Not later than 90 days from the date of this resolution, the City staff is to submit to this council a detailed plan and program for organized collection of solid waste. Section 5. Not later than 180 days after the date of this resolution, the City, in accordance with the Act, will (a) agree on an organized collection arrangement with a majority of the licensed collectors who have expressed an interest or (b) establish a system of organized collection as a municipal service by ordinance, franchise, or license, negotiated or biddable contracts, using one or more collectors or an organization of collectors after having made the specific findings required by the Act. Adopted by the Crystal City Council this 24th day of May, 1995. Peter E. Meintsma, Mayor ATTEST: Darlene George, City Clerk May 24, 1995 PUBLIC HEARING RE REFUSE COLLECTION As I am unable to attend the public hearing, I wish to state my support for the present arrangement of "open- customized collection." This system gives the customers the greatest opportunity to select the hauler of their choice, and for haulers to be competitive. If the present system is not possible, then I would hope we could have a "group of haulers /consortium. Janice R. Scofield 3656 Colorado Ave N Crystal MN 55422 BROOKLYN CENTER - CRYSTAL - NEW HOPE "HRG" HC4NEPIN RECYCLING GROUP ORGANIZED COLLECTION PUBLIC IWARING FORMAT Wednesday May 24, 1995 7:00 PM - 9 :00 PM CRYSTAL COMMUNrrY CENTER The hearing is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. and conclude at 9:00 p.m_ All discussion, comments and questions will be recorded by Cable TV and by a recording clerk. PLEASE * Pill out er f entrance r if you wish to comment. a farm found at the ante doe o Y Only those who have filled out that form and turned it in will be called to the microphone. They will be called in order received. * When your name is called, please come forward to the microphone so your comments can be recorded and heard by all present and you can be viewed by the camera. Begin by stating your name and the City you reside in or company or agency you are representing. Keep your comments and questions to this issue only and limit your comment time to five minutes to allow everyone an opportunity to be heard. At the descretion of the chair, and if time'allows, there may be additional comment time at the end of the hearing. * Do not repeat comments made by another person. If your point has been made, please defer your time to the next registered presenter. Public Hearing record will remain open and written comments will be accepted up to 4:30 p.m- Friday, June 2 at your City Hall, attention City Clerk. s • FORMATION HANDOUT PUBLIC HEARING ORGANIZED COLLECTION WEDNESDAY MAY 24, 1995 7 :00 TO 9:00 IP.M. CRYSTAL. COMMUNITY CENTER WHAT IS "ORGANIM COUXMON"? Organized Collection is a system for collecting solid waste, where a County or Municipality by ordinance, franchise, license or negotiated or bidded contract, may use one or more coll companies to provide collection within their jurisdiction. ector By law, organizing collection service CO only be done after a public hearing has been held with the citizens of at th jurisdiction, and the haulers that are presently serving that jurisdiction. Then, if the jurisdiction wants to continue to organize, meetings must be held with the haulers that would be affected in effort to reach a mutual agreement on the organized system to he implemented. This can take up to 180 days, if necessary. In an organized system, the resident/household is assigned a hauler aca)rding to selected organized system. Every household in that block, area, or possibly city would have the same hauler. There could be service volume choices, and 0 typically the charge for service becomes a part of the utility bill. The resident can not change haulers at will and every ehold is included in the collection system. WHAT IS "OPEN COLLEMON "? Open collection is a system where any hauler may apply for a license to provide service within a community and may solicit customers from anywhere within that city. The City is involved only in the licensing process and can, through that license make certain requirements such as volume based fees, but does not get involved in the routes, rates or collection, or resident choice. In some cities garbage and recycling s , each haulers is rewired to provide both service to their customers. WHAT IS OPEN -CUSTOMiZI3>D► COLLEMON? The system that. is in place in the cities of Brooklyn Center, Now Hope and Crystal is defined as an "open - customized system". All haulers must be licensed by each of the cities, but each resident has the choice of any one of those licensed haulers. The "HRG" cities did organize to the extent that the cities divided into day-zones, and all collection must take place within that zone on the same day. Cities also require that all haulers provide at least two levels of service that residents may select, based on the volume of waste they generate. It is this zoned and volume of service system that makes it a "customized" system. Residents still contract directly with the hauler of choice, and pay their hauler for that service and the resident can change haulers at will, as long as that hauler is licensed. Recycling is collected same day as garbage by a separate contract hauler. I31WORY: Organized Collection was studied by the HRG cities back in 1988. The HRG cities started the process of totally organizing collection but it was stopped by a legal challenge. The recycling single contract, but garbage collection remained an open system. In 1992 RG conducted a residen t lep survey seeking public input on a variety of waste management related issues. At that time, 67% of the residents polled did not Support a change in the present system. This Issue is again raised because of concerns and resident comments for street wear and tear. safety; cost of service etc. • CONIMNSMUFS - OPEN /OPEN GUSTOMTLBD: * Track Taft - Street Wow and Tear. With several licensed haulers Collecting, even if contained within a Specific zone, there may be many trucks traveling each residential street, collecting from their customer each collection day. With six licensed haulers, there could potentially be 6 garbage, 6 yard waste and one recycling truck or, or 13 trucks on collection day. " Public Safety. Increased risk to residents and neighborhoods due to the high number of truck trips. Envimnm Negatives: Unnecessary use of fuel; truck emissions; increased chance spills, litter, noise. * Cost - Open: An open system allows competition between haulers for customers which can result in lower costs and creative service options. Cost - Customized: The customized system still allows open competition between haulers and does not dramatically affect the cost of service, but it does concentrate collection routes and set Perimeters for service. Cost - Organized: An organized system, if the routes were more controlled and concentrated, with a contract either bid or negotiated that set cost of service and service level could result in a lower and consistant service fee that would be uniform for all residents. It could also include �rec c " recycling ' Y g service In the overall cont could also impact the Possibl savings factor . t ct which s 1 p pa . MUNICIPAL E1CAIVIP LES OF URGANILED SYSTEMS: City of Minneapolis 1/2 Group of Haulers /consortium -1/2 Municipal Cra Blaine sgl.Gontract BFI Robbiusdale sel. contract Wst. mgt. Columbia Heights Sgt. Contract BFI Champlin Group of Haulers/Consortium Elk River Group of Haulers/consortium St. Louis Park Sgi. Contract BPI Hopkins Municipal Crows/Residential In all examples, cost for garbage and recycling service is included on the utility bill.. There is volume service available. MUNICIPAL BYAMpIM OF OPEN CUSTOMIZED SYSTEMS: Brooklyn Center d licensed haulers -zoned- Volume service New Hope 6 1i0w"d hauiera- zoned - volume service crystal 9 Ikeutsed haulers -zoned volume service Brooklyn Park 11 hoonsed haulers - zones{- volume service Plymouth Licensed- zoned - volume service Minnetonka Licensed- zoned- volume service Golden Valley licensed - zoned- volume service Roseville Licensed- zoned- volume service In all examples, cost for garbage service is billed directly to customer by hauler of choice. Rbeyeling collection service coat is billed to each household by their city and included on the utility bill. 1 :1Of�_ MA [NnRECYCLZWPFKU%HRGIOCINFO.SHT 0 I�