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Regular City Council Minutes - 9/15/03 Page 19 and community's passion for this issue. Ms. Hubbard, in her context of managing a "hot line" for Ramsey County, and recognized numerous calls from Roseville residents concerning this issue in their attempt to research additional information. Ms. Hubbard opined that the City had negotiated a good contract with Waste Management in their current contract and that they were a good provider of recycling services; and recommended, as a seventeen (1 7) year provider of recycling services in the City of St. Paul, that the City take advantage of the current contract language to pursue a pilot program to test overall city-wide interest in single- sort collection. Ms. Hubbard opined that Waste Management already had available the carts to perform the test program without purchasing new carts for the quantity needed in a pilot program. Ms. Hubbard volunteered her company's expertise and assistance to the City and its residents as appropriate; advising that their firm had no interest in , and was not in a position to, offer competition to Waste Management. Councilmember Klausing reiterated his position that he wanted to pursue the pilot program under the current contract. Steve Mathison, Waste Management Mr. Mathison expressed confusion at the action under consideration at tonight's meeting; opining that he thought a motion to accept the single-stream sort system had been approved at the August 18, 2003 meeting, and tonight's action was simply to negotiate the contract. Mr. Mathison stated that, at the time the current contract was drafted, Waste Management was willing to pursue the pilot program, but following the implementation of single-sort collections for over 100,000 residences, a pilot program was no longer warranted. Councilmember Klausing clarified, with City Attorney Squires concurring that Waste Management was