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- Minutes of Regular Public Safety/Works Committee Meeting . Page 2 HOUSE NUMBERS Deputy Herbst and Fire Chief Winkel reiterated the urgent need for proper identification of homes. Police were unable to respond to a recent medical emergency (an infant who had stopped breathing); the home had no identification, nor did the homes surrounding it. (To find the home, they parked in the middle of the block and operated their sirens). Arden Hills does not currently have an Ordinance requiring this, but subscribes to the Uniform Building Code, which requires clearly visible numbers on all homes. Committee discussed recommending Council consider an ordinance requiring clearly visible numbers, and attaching penalties for non-compliance. (Shoreview is considering an ordinance requiring fluorescent house numbers) Winkel and Herbst will supply copies of such ordinances from neighboring communities for Committee's consideration at its next meeting.. Committee suggested education of residents through the Town Crier and Cable; would hope residents would comply without the need for additional ordinance. Malone noted that in a village he had lived in, the realtors, as a public service, offered free numbers to the residents. Another suggestion was having Boy Scouts paint house numbers on the curbs as a public service. Hansen also suggested each member of this committee taking a two block area within their neighborhood, and encouraging proper identification. . RecyclinR ProRrams - OrRanized GarbaRe Collection Dave Locey, Arden Hills' resident and president of MSD Recycle, discussed these subjects. OrRanized GarbaRe Collection - The average cost, to homeowner, for garbage collection is about $120 per year. Of this, $100 is transportation cost, $20 is landfill cost. Landfill cost is expected to increase to $35 per year in the next year. Studies show that each household generates about 1 ton of waste per year. Minneapolis has an organized garbage collection system for half of the city. The haulers are paid transportation costs; Minneapolis pays the "tipping" or landfill costs separately. Locey maintains that organized collection, by increasing efficiency of the haulers, can reduce transportation costs by 20%. In a scenario where garbage collection is a part of the tax bill, recycling collection service is provided (reducing tipping fee by 16 to 20%), and organized hauling is used, costs to the homeowner could conceivably be reduced. Hauling can be organized in two ways; by dividing the city among those haulers currently licensed, or putting the entire contract up for bids. Locey contends that in organized hauling, where the city is divided among bidders, the haulers agree among themselves as to who will take which area, and police themselves as to price and quality of service. He feels haulers are receptive to this; their profits increase when they collect an entire block rather than . from homes scattered throughout the city. Organized hauling would also result in less wear on City streets.