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<br />I <br />~. <br />I <br />I 'IO'iEER PRESS N ;So. <br />I NORTH METRO BUREAU <br /> METRO Bureau Chief Blake Morrison, 481-0287 <br /> 500 W. Highway 96, Suite 150 <br /> Shoreview, Minn. 55126 Ph. 481-9642 <br />I Maplewood seeking to reduce garbage haulers <br />I . 16 services now The Maplewood City Council Decision Resources Ltd. was <br /> allowed to pick up will hold a public hearing at 7:30 paid $12,000 to conduct the tele- <br /> p.m. March 11 on a plan to award phone poll of 400 randomly select- <br />I trash in the city the garbage colledion franchise in ed households. <br /> the city to one, or at most, three The margin of errOr was 5 per- <br /> JIM BROEDE STAFF WRITER or four haulers, each of them as- cent either way. <br /> signed to a zone. The meeting will Decision Resources president <br />. Garbage be at City Hall, 1830 E. County Bill Morris said he was surprised <br /> WHA T'S that so many Maplewood residents <br /> hauling may NEXT favored a tax increase over ser- <br /> be in for an ". guess we learned vice cuts. <br /> overhaul in The Maplewood from the opinion Another surprise was that only 6 <br />. Maplewood. City Council will percent of Maplewood residents <br /> Now, 16 hold a pUblic poll that the people listed crime as a big concern. <br /> different hearing at 7:30 who speak at . The poll also indicated that a <br /> haulers ply p.m. March 11 vast majority of residents are hap. <br />I their trade on a plan to council meetings py with their city's general direc- <br /> in the city of award the don't necessarily tion. <br /> I 33,000 resi- garbage Eighty-five percent said they <br /> dents. collection reflect majority felt the city was headed in the <br />I "We allow franchise. The opinion in the right diredion, 7 percent said it <br /> in virtually hearing will be at was going the wrong way and 9 <br /> any hauler City Hall, 1830 community as a percent were undecided. <br /> who wants E. County Road whole." City services also received high <br />I in" Citv 8, Maplewood_ ratings across the board. <br /> M'anager MIKE MCGUIRE That goes especially for the po- <br /> Mike McGuire said. "But some MAPLEWOOD CITY MANAGER lice department, which received a <br /> question whether that's the effi- rating of 94 percent positive and 4 <br />I cient way to operate." Road B, l'ifaplewood. percent negative. <br /> City officials have long advocat- Building inspection ranked the <br /> ed awarding a single hauling con- "I guess we learned from the lowest. Even so, the rating was 59 <br /> trad for the entire city. opinion poll," McGuire said, "that percent favorable. <br />I "But the people who turn out for the people who speak at council <br /> City Council meetings have been meetings don't necessarily reflect <br /> 2-to-l against those proposals," majority opinion in the community <br /> McGuire said. "So the council was as a whole." <br />I reluctant to change things." The poll also showed that resi- <br /> The council's mood may be .dents are 2-to-l in favor of a small <br /> changing, however, because a poll tax increase - if that's what it <br /> sanctioned by the city had a sur. takes to keep the present level of Binding and Laminating <br />I prising result: Residents actually city services. <br /> favor, by a 2-to-l plurality, aban- "They told us that they'd rather II' MAlL BOXES ETC' <br /> doning the present laissez fa ire . pay more in taxes than have us <br />~ approach to garbage collection. reduce services," McGuire said. <br /> I 2355 Fairview Ave. <br /> p"~.':H,;ll,..,. ____~ <br />I <br />
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