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Apple Valley ordinance (just amended to create hauling zones /days): Each licensee shall submit a monthly report to the city that identifies separately the weight, in tons, of refuse recyclables yard waste and special pick -up materials that were collected by the licensee from Apple Valley sources. The report must be provided on or before the fifteenth day of the month following the month being reported, and shall be on a form provided by the city. The report shall also identify the weight of each type of collected recyclable derived via actual weighing of each individual material or through the application of recyclable waste stream percentages acceptable to Dakota County. The report shall include a summary, including receipts, of all revenues derived by the collector for each targeted recyclable material market during the month. The report shall distinguish residential collection tonnage from commercial/ industrial tonnage and shall also include a brief description of the methodology used in computing the reported weights. The city reserves the right to request additional relevant information from the licensee as deemed necessary in order to plan for and evaluate its waste disposal system; A license fee as specified in the appendix to Chapter 35, based on the number of vehicles to be used by the applicant in applicant's operations under the license, shall accompany the application and, upon granting of the license, the fee shall be deposited in the general fund. Notes from Rosemount: 1. Until this year Rosemount did not limit the number of residential licenses we would issue. Anyone who had a truck, insurance, and $320 could get a license. At the end of last year the City Council updated our waste hauling ordinance to put a cap on the number of residential licenses we issue. 2. That cap is the current number of licenses, eight. This is for residential haulers only. We do not now and do not intend to limit commercial licenses. When the economy turns around we will have a lot of construction going on and many firms license just to handle construction and remodeling debris. So we do not expect to limit these haulers. 3. According to the Met Council, there were 7,104 households in Rosemount in 2007, the last year for which information is available. 4. Yes, when the Ordinance was revised, the following language was included: Limitations On Licensing: The city council, in the interest of maintaining healthful and sanitary conditions in the city, hereby reserves the right to specify and assign certain areas to all licensees, and to limit the number of licenses issued. The council finds that by reducing the number of collection vehicle trips through a neighborhood, the neighborhood will be more safe for children and pedestrians, the amount of wear on the street surface will be reduced, and the total amount of emissions produced by the collection vehicles will decrease. Only haulers licensed as of the effective date hereof will be allowed to renew their license. When a hauler leaves the industry or merges with another hauler, the total number of residential hauling licenses available in Rosemount will automatically be reduced. 5. As you can see, there is no set numerical limit to the number of licenses we issue. Anyone who currently has a license will be allowed to continue getting a license. But we did introduce a method to reduce the number we issue over time as firms merge or leave the business. 6. Like I said, anyone who currently has a license will be allowed to re- license. 7. So far, no one has challenged us but this ordinance was revised after the 2009 hauling licenses were issued. So the fall of 2009 when we re- license for 2010 would be the first time anyone might challenge this. We don't expect any since we have been pretty liberal in the past most anyone that wanted to work in our city is already here.