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Arden Hills locals to pay for recycling SFIELBY NICOLAUS-DUNSKI With the absence of financial hetp from Ramsey County, Arden Hills residents will be paying $25 annually for their recycling pickup start- ing this year. The Arden Hills City Council approved a recycling fee ordinance last week which puts the charge on residents' property tax bills. Tfie fee is necessary since the county stopped reimbursing the city for its recycling hauling chatges last year, said Arden Hills City Accountant Terrance Post. The council also approved an ordinance prohibiGng the scavenging of recyclables. The ordinance claims recyclables as the city's property and dces not allow people to rummage through recyclables at curbsides to collect for personal profiC "Volume, apparenUy, is something.you want to generate," said City Attorney Jerome Filla. "The more recyclables you provide for the col- lector, the better the rate you get." City leaders had no problem with scavengers prior to the ordinance but put it in as a"housekeeping measure" to fill a gap, Post said. "It's in the city's and the generai pUblic's best interest to mandate that these recyclables are the property of the city," he said. ArdenlHills to clarify charitable gambling rules SHELBY NICOLAUS-DUNSKI inconsistency" in how gross prof- its are calculated, said Mayor Finding the numbers aren't Tom Sather. coming up right, Arden Hills Allowing organizations to sub- leaders ptan to clarify a pation of tract taxes from their gross profits , the city's charitable gambling decreases the amount of money ordinance. given to the city from their City .Accountant Terrance Post receipts. told the City Councii last week "I think we're missing a rev- the ordinance does not clearly enue possibility," Sather said. define ,gross profit for charitable The city, not the state; is enti- gambling license-holders. tled to a higher amount because it Mainly, city officials want to ultimately has to pay for staff and focus on ihe disparity of whether enforcement time to regulate the ticense-holders can subtract taxes organizadons, Sather said. paid to other jurisdictions from "The greatest deal of enforce- their gross profit before allocadng ment is at the local level, not the a required 10 percent their of state level. God only knows profits to the city. The state's for- where chazitable gambling rev- mula for calculating gross profit enue is going at the state level," includes taking taxes out, Post ; he said. said• • The council will discuss the Some charitable-gambling issue at a June 15 work session. license-holders are subtracting the "Something's out of sync here I taxes while others are not, Post and my whole position is to get said. this thing resolved," Post said. "There has been a great deal of I i ~/o~~~