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171 and asked that staff coordinate with them and try to pick a date for a joint 172 tour by the PWETC and City Council in the near future; and a future tour of 173 the BRT station in Minneapolis when built. 174 175 5. Recap of Joint Meeting with City Council 176 Chair Stenlund thanked those members of the PWETC who'd attended the joint 177 meeting with the City Council; expressing his pride in the group. 178 179 Of the items discussed with the City Council, Chair Stenlund noted that organized 180 trash collection remained silent, with no direct char o the PWETC to pursue it 181 further at this time. 182 183 From his notes of the joint meeting, Chair Stenlund reviewed the directives and 184 comments provided by individual City Councilmembers, and his recommendation 185 for those items the PWETC should include in their work plan for ultimate 186 recommendation to the City Council as applicable. 187 • Involve and/or increase participation in curbside recycling collection by multi- 188 family apartments, businesses and churches to continue increasing 189 participation and a larger percentage of recovered material. 190 191 • Green Cities Program: determine where that process is at, and next steps. 192 193 On a related noted, Chair Stenlund advised that he had recently attended a 194 water quality workshop in St. Louis Park for commission members, which he 195 found quite interesting and offered to share information with others if 196 interested. 197 198 Mr. Schwartz reported that Environmental Specialist Ryan Johnson had 199recently taken a look at the project performed by Mankato State students, and 200 met with Metro/CERTS in mid-April to discuss the process and next steps to 201 reach a Level 2 minimum Green Step. Mr. Schwartz further reported that this 202 morning, Mr. Johnson had tentatively scheduled a meeting with the City 203 Council at their J* 14, 2014 meeting for formally establish the City of 204 Roseville as a Green Step City via resolution, after which the MPCA would 205 get the City started on their website for additional data entry; and the City of 206 Roseville would be recognized at the next League of Minnesota Cities annual 207 conference in June of 2015. Therefore, Mr. Schwartz advised that the 208 program should be up and running before too long. 209 210 Chair Stenlund asked staff to include an update from staff for the benefit 211 of new commissioners on a future PWETC agenda. 212 213 • Status report on single-sort recycling program to-date after its initial roll-out 214 in February of 2014; and as part of that a reminder about the requested Eureka 215 tour. 216 Page 5 of 18