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City Solid Waste Ordinance and Licensing <br />Best Management Practice Options <br />Good Ordinance/License Practices <br />➢ <br />See the Good License Template for legal language that would be adopted by ordinance and included <br />in the license -- see Services Agreement Template -- a city issues to solid waste/recycling hauler(s). <br />Cities in 2015 that have adopted at least portions of these practices include: Cottage Grove, <br />Newport, Carver and Chaska. <br />MEL <br />❑ <br />Hauler ordinance/license and enforcement <br />License all garbage and recycling haulers and provide an administrative fine system for violations <br />of the ordinance. Administrative fines been preferred by many cities instead of a misdemeanor -type <br />enforcement system. <br />❑ <br />Background checks for haulers in the City <br />Authorize city police to require hauler and State of MN information. This is similar to requirements <br />for "Peddlers" that most cities have on their books. Solid waste and recycling drivers know where <br />vulnerable adults live, who is on vacation for an extended period of time, and what houses are being <br />built or remodeled. This information about residents could be used for unlawful purposes. <br />❑ <br />Daily hauling districts <br />Keep residential trash and recycling trucks on a particular street only on a specified day each week, <br />instead of allowing trucks anywhere in the City on any day. This is a benefit to public safety, road <br />wear and tear, reduction in noise and neighborhood aesthetics. Garbage carts serviced at the curb <br />would only be put out and in public sight one day each week. <br />❑ <br />Multi -material collection <br />Require all trash haulers to provide recycling services to all trash customers, and allow those <br />haulers to also offer Bulky Waste, SSO (Source -Separated Organics) and Yard Waste services to <br />customers. This does not require that all haulers offer Bulky Waste, SSO and Yard Waste services, <br />but it sets your City up for these services as you progress in your solid waste programs. If your City <br />already has organized recycling collection, the license language in the Good template must be <br />modified. <br />❑ <br />Volume -based pricing <br />Require a Pay as You Throw (PAYT) trash program. This ordinance/license language defines three <br />cart sizes, and requires that the different costs charged by haulers for each cart size — this differential <br />being a state law - be sufficient to encourage recycling and waste reduction: at least a 25% <br />difference between the prices of the cart sizes. <br />❑ <br />Hauler fee transparency <br />Require collectors to annually or quarterly inform the City of the rates and fees haulers will charge <br />residents, so that the City can post these on its website and be informed of the differential costs <br />between the cart sizes, of changes (in fees for hauling and disposal, and in county/state taxes), and <br />can provide information to residents if they have questions about special fees (fuel surcharges, cart <br />rental, environmental/landfill, etc.) and discounts. Rates and fees should be posted on the city's web <br />site as an at -least annual update for residents. <br />Ordinance/License BMPs (Oct. 2015) <br />Page 1 <br />25 <br />