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In 2002 Wayzata and Burnsville are conducting pilot programs of organics collection. Chrlstmas Tree5: Ramsey County is the only county in the metro area that does not organize a campaign on Christmas tree disposal. Other counties either run drop off sites or work with a contractor to publicize and/or run a drop off site(s). Some offer free drop off, others require a fee. In Roseville six garbage haulers say tbey will take Christmas trees, two left that section of their license application blank. Five of the haulers charge a fee, one offers to take the first tree for free. Roseville residents may also take trees to private disposal facilities such as Treecycle in St. Paul and pay to dispose of them there. Options Considered: All options include: continuing education campaigns about proper yard waste disposal including, but not limited to, information about Ramsey County yard waste sites, information on mulching, composting, phosphorus in lawn fertilizer ban and low mainte- nance lawn care. These campaigns should be coordinated with relevant State and County agen- cies and divisions and enlist the aid of community groups when possible. 1) Continue requiring garbage haulers to offer yard waste and brush pick up service. Add as a requirement for licensing that haulers annually give customers, and file with the City, a clear delineation of rates and services. 2) Begin again a Citywide cleanup day that includes yard waste and brush drop off service in which residents would pay to drop them off. The items would be collected by a private contractor and taken to a proper disposal facility. 3) Begin a brush drop offprogram where residents could bring brush to a designated drop off site run by City crews and pay to drop it off. The brush would be chipped and made available for residents to take with them or pick up. 4) Begin a curbside brush collection program where residents could pay a fee to have City crews collect their brush, chip it and make it available for pickup. 5) Urge Ramsey County to coordinate a Holiday tree disposal information campaign. In- crease the City's educational efforts about Holiday tree disposal. 6) Initiate a City-run Holiday tree drop offprogram. 7) Encourage Roseville's Parks and Recreation Department to offer educational classes in yard and garden maintenance in cooperation with the University of Minnesota Extension Service's Master Gardener program (from the 1991 report). 8) Construct demonstration plots with information stands in several City parks on backyard composting, lawn maintenance techniques, mulching, etc (from the 1991 report). 9) Expand Roseville's curbside recycling program to include collection of organics. 10) Roseville study more organics collection programs and decide within the neXt few years if the City should include organics collection. 11) Following major storms or other events that generate a significant amount of downed trees and limbs Roseville have curbside collection of tree debris. 12) Speed up implementation of the State's phosphorus in lawn fertilizer ban by enacting a ban in Roseville beginning January 1, 2003. 13) Expand the State's phosphorus in lawn fertilizer ban by including professional lawn services among those banned for using phosphorus in lawn fertilizers. :