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of businesses that are exempt. She explained staff liked that St. Louis Park has been easing their businesses in and likedthat they did the educational piece with a vendor fair. She explained that would be her recommendation. She indicated St. Louis Park does have a solid waste staff that manages it, but this could fall under Public Works for complaint-based enforcement. Mr. Johnson agreed with Ms. Bakken. Ms. Bakkenrecommended to keep the recommendation in that materials with lids have the same type of material throughout so it is easier for the consumer to know what to do. She noted St. Louis Park and Edina does that as well. Chair Ficek stated that at the top of the list, affected businesses, he noticed a couple of differences from St. Louis Park that they included food trucks and gas stations. He wondered if there was any reason to include or not include them. Ms. Bakken thought gas stations could probably fall under, if the City wanted to include, some of the exemptions like foods prepackaged by the manufacturer. There will probably not be a lot of freshly prepared take away foods from gas stations besides hot dogs. The city does have a handful of food trucks that station in various parts around the city and would be something that would come up occasionally. A lot of food trucks, because they are mobile and working among some of the different cities, have probably encountered this in Minneapolis, St. Paul,and St. Louis Park already so a lot of the food trucks are probably already using materials that are pretty compliant. She would not see any issues with that personally. Member Hodder thought some of the food trucks may need to have some education because a few he has encountered still use the Styrofoam containers. Mr. Culver thought it was important to keep in mind that staff all agree and the Commission understands, just based on Member Hodder’s last comment, whatever is recommended for an ordinance is going to be a really slow roll on the actual enforcement of it. It might be a year or more and he was not sure what the Council would want to do. Chair Ficek asked when they talk about phased, does that mean it is a long time until full implementation with a lot of education with a set date where everything goes into effect or do they start with one thing being in effect and other things are added along the way until there is a full implementation. Ms. Bakken explained her thought on that is because the City is not sure about the timing of Ramsey County’s curbside pickup, roll out is going to be and could be as late as mid-year to late next year forRoseville. She indicated if she was going to implement this she would start with 2023 as being an educational period and, at the very earliest, start 2024 as starting to ban materials and starting to try to enforce it. Page 3 of 7