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City Council Meeting Minutes October 28, 1992 page four Mary Ayde of Lake Sanitation was present at the meeting to request that the City of Centerville co-sponsor Lake Sanitation in a grant proposal to the Metropolitan Council to establish data about the amount of waste picked up each week from the residents. Ms. Ayde made the following comments: - If the grant were awarded, the residents in Centerville would not notice any difference in cost or service at this time. - Lake Sanitation would provide 50% of the monies to match the grant monies provided by the Metropolitan Council. There would be no expense to the City of Centerville with regard to the grant project. - The grant is needed so that Lake Sanitation can develop a data base. - The data base would be evaluated and Lake Sanitation may propose an amendment in the payment structure at that time, but it would be way down the road. - Lake Sanitation would send a letter to residents explaining the program. - The purpose of the grant is to provide a communication mechanism. - Lake Sanitation chose Centerville for this project because it is unique. It is a good test City because it only has one waste hauler, thus a compact environment. An open collection system may not be as feasible to study. - Centerville will probably get national recognition for it's participation in this project. Mayor Buckbee (Solid Waste Liaison) advised that he has spoken to Carolyn Smith of Anoka County and Victoria Reinhardt of the Metropolitan Council. He noted that the grant proposes two sponsors, the City of Centerville and Anoka County. Anoka County is not able at this time to co-sponsor the project. He noted that it has been suggested that a third party agreement be prepared by the City Attorney, at the expense of Lake Sanitation, giving the City the option to drop out of the project at any time. Even though the data base would be accumulated if the grant were awarded, Mayor Buckbee wanted it to be clear that the current contractual agreement with Lake Sanitation is based upon "volume" billing and he would like it to continue as agreed upon. Motion by Buckbee, second by Pelton that the City of Centerville does agree to sponsor and support a grant request to the Metropolitan Council by Lake Sanitation to develop a weight based data base;