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COUNTY OF ANOKA Page 2 of5 January 11, 2006 Page 2 Anoka County annually enters into an Agreement for Residential Recycling Program with each municipality. The agreement requires the municipality to develop and implement a residential solid waste recycling program adequate to meet the municipality's annual recycling goal. The agreement requires the municipality to establish a recycling program that includes the following components: Each household (including multi-unit households) in the municipality must have the opportunity to recycle at least four broad types of materials, such as paper, glass, plastic, metal and textiles. The recycling program must be operated in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, rules and regulations. The municipality must implement a public information program that contains at least the following components: One promotion is to be mailed to each household focused exclusively on the municipality's recycling program; One promotion advertising recycling opportunities available for residents is to be included in the municipality's newsletter or local newspaper; and Two community presentations are to be given on recycling. The public information components listed above must promote the focused recyclable material of the year as specified by the county. The county will provide the municipality with background material on the focused recyclable material of the year. The municipality, on an ongoing basis, must identifY new residents and provide detailed information on the recycling opportunities available to these new residents. QUESTION 2 If Anoka County sets the criteria, what happens to the unused portion of the dollars not spent? Do they revert to the county general fund? If this is correct, how much money last year went back to the general fund unused by the 21 communities within Anoka County. ANSWER Unused SCORE funds do not revert to the county's general fund. Minn. Stat. ~ 1 15A.557 specifies the purposes for which these funds may be spent. Therefore, the county separately accounts for these funds. After consultation with the municipalities at the January 2005 Solid Waste Abatement Advisory Task Force meeting, the county has expended unused 2004 SCORE funds on the following: The county hired an intern to assist municipalities with multi-unit recycling. The county provided public information and recycling containers for multi-unit buildings. The county produced public information pieces, including Recycling Hurdles Overcome and Recycling Myths Unmasked. Both were produced in collaboration with the municipalities that had not met their goals in 2004. Each municipality was offered the opportunity to order these brochures at no cost. Postcards to promote paper, glass, metal and plastic recycling were printed and will be mailed to residents in the https://webmail.co.anoka.mn.us/servlet/webacc/eu2ill Yf2004eg3JialGW AP/AREFIl ?action=Attachment... 1/19/06