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Ms. Bakken thought the panels were producing as much as the City was expecting. <br />She continued with the presentation updating the Commission on the Partners in <br />Energy program. <br />Member Fergus indicated it was mentioned a few times in the presentation about <br />the curbside organics and he was excited this is coming. He asked if there was any <br />word on how this program is going where it has been implemented. <br />Ms. Bakken explained it is fully rolled out in North St. Paul and Maplewood and <br />she believed one more city in Washington County and it sounds like it is going well, <br />and City staff is excited for it. <br />Vice Chair Mueller explained she is very passionate and excited about this whole <br />initiative and appreciated that staff is being really conscientious about business <br />owners and what it would take for them to fulfill these obligations. She thought it <br />is great to get Styrofoam out of circulation but thinking to some of the restaurants <br />and if they are going to be having readily compostable materials, is the City going <br />to also add in some sort of requirement for the business to be offering recycling or <br />compost onsite because all of this is abig push if there is not acollection mechanism <br />in place and she did not want to push something and have that burden if there is not <br />a long-term solution for what is going to happen to the materials after that initial <br />action. <br />Ms. Bakken explained that is one thing the City has in the draft ordinance, there <br />will be a requirement that if the business has any kind of dine in service there will <br />have to be trash, recycling and compost available and most commercial hauling <br />services do offer a composting option. <br />Member Rudolph wondered how the City does compared to Eureka on recycling. <br />Mr. Johnson discussed with the Commission the actions Roseville has taken with <br />recycling and noted that Roseville has one of the best recycling programs in the <br />State. <br />Chair Ficek indicated he really liked the idea of the City Energy Resource Fair. He <br />also saw a reference to Complete Streets that he was in favor of, but he also heard <br />somewhat of a move to a complete network. <br />Ms. Bakken thought that is very connected to the bike plan/active transportation <br />plan staff has been working on. <br />Member Luongo knew that the PWETC is the Green Team and that made sense, <br />but she wondered if there is another commission that should be included in this. <br />One commission that came to her mind is the Planning Commission because of the <br />land use role. <br />Ms. Bakken explained staff has been working with Community Development a lot <br />on this. One thing that was proposed last year and did not go through Council was <br />Page 3 of 5 <br />