01-12-2026 - Agenda Packet City Council - Regular Meeting

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Grant Form 101 (Revised 9/2025) 4 including apartment buildings, condominiums, townhomes, and cooperative housing units where a property manager or association coordinates collection service. Multifamily households in cities with open recycling collection are defined as households in residential buildings larger than a fourplex. E. Cities of the first class Cities of the first class must comply with COUNTY’s measurable performance standards and report recycling rates and compliance rates to the COUNTY semi- annually beginning February 15, 2026, and every August 15 and February 15 thereafter during the term of this Agreement. Cities of the first class must also report semi-annually beginning February 15, 2026, and every August 15 and February 15 thereafter, on specific steps for implementation that address the COUNTY’s priorities identified Board Action 25-0296 R2. COUNTY will determine annually whether the cities have implemented and satisfied performance standards. If the COUNTY finds that the cities have not implemented or satisfied the performance standards, the city must submit a waste reduction and recycling improvement plan to COUNTY within 60 days of being notified by COUNTY. The improvement plan must specify the efforts the city will take to implement and satisfy the performance standards identified by the COUNTY. The improvement plan must be negotiated with COUNTY and approved by COUNTY. If COUNTY does not approve the improvement plan, then it will withhold SCORE funding. 4. PARTY RELATIONSHIP A. GRANTEE shall select the means, method, and manner of performing Grant Requirements. Nothing is intended nor should be construed as creating or establishing any relationship, besides that of grantor and grantee, between the parties. GRANTEE is not COUNTY’s vendor, contractor, agent, representative, or employee for any purpose. GRANTEE shall secure at its own expense all personnel and resources required in completing Grant Requirements under this Agreement. GRANTEE’s personnel and/or subcontractors engaged to perform any activities under this Agreement will have no contractual relationship with COUNTY and will not be considered employees of COUNTY. B. If GRANTEE enters into any agreement with any entity to provide goods or services related to GRANTEE’s performance of the Grant Requirements, GRANTEE shall memorialize that relationship with a written and duly executed agreement with said entity. That agreement will include, at minimum, the following provisions: (i) Neither GRANTEE nor the engaged entity is acting as agent(s) for the County of Hennepin, State of Minnesota; (ii) The parties expressly agree that the County of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, is not a party to their agreement; and 62