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Member introduced the following resolution and
moved its adoption:
CITY OF MEDINA
RESOLUTION NO. 85- /"?_''
A RESOLUTION REGARDING LANDFILL
ABATEMENT AND OTHER MEASURES TO BE
FINANCED BY THE CITY OF MEDINA
WHEREAS, pursuant to the federal Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act of 1976, states are under a mandate to examine and
plan for a reduction in municipal solid waste; and
WHEREAS, in 1980 the Minnesota legislature adopted the Waste
Management Act (the Act) which conveyed responsibility for
regulating hazardous and municipal solid waste to the Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency, the Minnesota Waste Management Board,
the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission and the Metropolitan
Council; and
WHEREAS, the Act prohibits the use of landfills within the
Twin Cities area for disposing of unprocessed solid waste after
1990; and
WHEREAS, the Act gives primary responsibility for planning
and coordinating efforts to reduce municipal solid waste within
the Twin Cities area to the Metropolitan Council; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council estimates that if present
practices continued unchanged, by the year 2000 the Twin Cities
area will need to dispose of about 24 million tons of solid waste
above the capacity of existing landfills, resulting in the need
for approximately 10 new landfills; and
WHEREAS, in March of 1985 the Metropolitan Council adopted
its Solid Waste Management Development Guide/Policy Plan (the
Plan) for regulation of solid waste within the Twin Cities area;
and
WHEREAS, the Plan establishes the following goals for the
Twin Cities for eliminating the use of landfills for unprocessed
solid waste by 1990:
4 percent reduction in total volume;
16 percent reduction through source separation; and
80 percent reduction through central processing; and
WHEREAS, the Plan requires metropolitan counties to identify
and plan for additional landfill sites, to prepare comprehensive
plans consistent with those of the Metropolitan Council and to
acquire and construct solid waste management facilities; and
WHEREAS, the Plan requires metropolitan municipalities to
consider ordinance amendments and modifications to their compre-
hensive plans to accommodate landfill abatement efforts and
encourages municipalities to implement or participate in landfill
abatement programs and activities; and
WHEREAS, the City of Medina regulates the operation of the
Woodlake sanitary landfill located within the city by a condi-
tional use permit granted on February 7, 1984; and
WHEREAS, the CUP allows the City to collect a fee for road
maintenance equal to $.02 per cubic yard of solid waste and a fee
for other city expenses for monitoring and regulating the land-
fill of up to $.10 per cubic yard of solid waste; and
WHEREAS, in 1984 the Minnesota legislature authorized the
state department of revenue and counties and municipalities in
which landfills are located to charge fees of $.50, $.25 and $.15
per cubic yard of solid waste, respectively, for the purpose of
funding landfill abatement measures; and
WHEREAS, Medina is especially conscious of those costs
associated with landfills which are not directly borne by the
users of landfills and wishes to participate in efforts to lessen
dependence within the Twin Cities area on the landfilling of
solid wastes; and
WHEREAS, the City intends to avail itself of all resources
designed to abate the use of landfills and to mitigate and
compensate its residents for the presence of a landfill within
the City;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Medina, Minnesota as follows:
1. That a Landfill Task Force is hereby created for the purpose
of recommending to the City Council landfill abatement
activities which the City should implement or participate
in, including those towards which the City should contribute
financially.
2. The names of persons to serve on said Task Force shall be
recommended by the Planning Commission and approved by the
City Council.
3. Staff is hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with
the Task Force and provide any assistance it may require in
performing its responsibilities.
4. The Task Force shall prepare a report of its findings and
recommendations as quickly as is reasonably practicable and
shall present same to the City Council no later than July 1,
1986.
DATED: %)
ATTEST:
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, 1985.
Donna Roehl, Clerk/Treasurer
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly
seconded by member ..Scl t.re.A.- and upon vote being taken
thereon, the following/voted in favor the{reof:
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Whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.