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Setting the recycling service fee for 2015, and authorizing Public Works to request $590,554 in SCORE grant funds from Ramsey County to support the curbside recycling program under contract with Eureka Recycling. (Public hearing held November 5)
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WHEREAS, the request of the SCORE grant funds from Ramsey County and setting the recycling service fees for 2015 will allow the City to continue the curbside collection of recyclables program currently under contract with Eureka Recycling through 2015; and
WHEREAS, in order to continue service in 2015 for weekly curbside collection of recyclables, single sort recycling, and support expanded plastic collection, the City Recycling Service Fee in 2015 shall be set at $53.52 per unit in residential buildings with one to three units including condominiums, and $33.28 per unit in residential buildings with four or more units, for support of the citywide curbside and multi-family / city buildings recycling collection programs conducted under contract with Eureka Recycling; and
WHEREAS, this represents a 2.4% increase in the 2015 City Recycling Fee rates; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the proper city officials are hereby authorized and directed to request SCORE state recycling grant funds from Ramsey County in the amount of $590,554 in 2015 for support of the citywide curbside and multi-family recycling collection programs conducted under contract with Eureka Recycling; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Saint Paul does hereby adopt the 2015 City Recycling Service Fees as referenced above.