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based on recommendations in the Vista 2000 report. Vista 2000 was set up by the City Council to bring together citizens, city officials, and business, education, and civic groups to create a vision for Roseville's future. The environmental goals adopted by the Council are: � Identify and solve local pollution problems through clean up, mitigation and prevention. � Continue the emphasis on waste reduction and the improvement of the community's recycling efforts. � Continue the emphasis on strong programs which develop environmental awareness in all of our citizenry. There has also been a developing difference in policy. The City has traditionally treated multi- family complexes such as apartment buildings as commercial buildings. Commercial buildings are not provided the same level of City service especially in recycling. Meanwhile Minnesota and Ramsey County have set garbage and recycling laws and policies that consider multi-family compleXes to be similar to single-family homes. In June 2001 the Roseville City Council established a Residential Solid Waste and Recycling Citizen Advisory Committee to investigate and update the City's policies on residential garbage and recycling. The Council solicited membership, reviewed the applications and appointed Committee mem- bers. The Committee began meeting in August 2001. Committee members were: Todd Ander- son, Rebecca Caulfield, Paul Severson, Jeff Travis, Judy Wood and Joe Wozniak. Assistant City Manager Christine Butterfield and Recycling Coordinator Tim Pratt served as staff support. The goal has been to design the best quality, most cost effective system of garbage and recycling services that meet the needs of residents and goals established by the City Council following the 1992 Vista 2000 report. Committee members learned about the solid waste and recycling policies and practices in a number of ways: � Heard presentations from State, Ramsey County and city officials on topics including recycling at multi-family complexes, landfills, cleanup days, State and County policies, the effects of garbage truck traffic on Roseville streets, Household Hazardous Waste collection, the 1991 report on garbage collection, St. Paul's groundbreaking recycling collection study, and organized collection of garbage. � Toured the Resource Recovery Facility in Newport, other cities' clean up day activities, and the Household Hazardous Waste collection site in St. Paul. � Read reports and background information from City, Ramsey County, State of Minnesota and na�ional sources. 16 Committee members touring the Resource Recovery Facility