01-27-1992 Public Hearing MinutesSTATE OF MINNESOTA A Public Hearing on the establish-
COUNTY OF WRIGHT ment of an Organized Garbage
CITY OF OTSEGO Collection System in the City of
Otsego was held this 27TH day of
January, 1992 at 6:30PM. Norman F Freske, Mayor, Doug
Lindenfelser, Floyd Roden, Larry Fournier and Ron Black,
Council Members, Jerome Perrault, Clerk, Elaine Beatty,
Deputy Clerk/Zoning Adm, Judy Hudson, Secretary, and Stan
Ellison Attorney were present.
Haulers present were G. D. LaPlant Sanitation, Corrow
Sanitation, Greg Knoll (East Tonka Sanitation), Peterson
Bros. and Aagard West.
The Hearing was called to order by Mayor Norman F
Freske. He explained to those in attendance that the City of
Otsego was interested in establishing an organized garbage
collection in the City whereby the haulers would be assigned
individual districts within the City, instead of all the
haulers running on the same streets in the City.
Attorney Stan Ellison explained that this Public Hearing
is the first step in establishing an organized garbage
collection system. This would be followed by the Council
adopting a Resolution of Intent to establish an organized
garbage collection system. During the ninety day period
following the adoption of the Resolution of Intent,..,the
Council would work in cooperation with the haulers to
implement the organized system because of anti-trust laws,
the City Council would be required to organize and control
the system. An Ordinance would be needed to adopt the
organized collection system.
The Council asked the haulers how many customers each of
them had in Otsego. LaPlant said he had 314, Peterson said
he had 279, Corrow over 700, Greg Knoll over 200 and Aagard
West 10 customers.
Mr Corrow said one problem with organized collection is
that people might not like to be told who to have for a
hauler and also he has worked hard for several years to build
up his customer count to over 700 and then have to turn it
over to the City to administer, Aagard West said it does
limit the free enterprise system wherein customer service is
an important part of your business. Gregg Knoll commented
that it is importantfor the haulers to know if the City will
do the billing or the haulers. Peterson said he prefers the
organized collection system and also recycling participation
increases under this system. Aagard West said he prefers the
free enterprise system instead of organized collection.
Stan Ellison commented that a new State law makes it
mandatory for a City of over 5000 population to provide
garbage service. The City of Otsego is already in compliance
with this law by having 5 haulers licensed to operate within
the City.
Stan Ellison said the City could assign districts to
each hauler and the hauler would do his own billing and
manage his own distract. Garbage collection could also be
CITY OF OTSEGO SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING OF 1-27-92 AT 6:3OPM
- PAGE 2 -
made mandatory, but does not have to be.
Ron Black commented that he would like to have seen
better attendance and more participation by the residents at
the Public Hearing.
Motion by Ron Black to continue the Public Hearing on
Organized Garbage Collection on February 24, 1992 at 6:3OPM.
The motion was seconded by Larry Fournier.
Norman F Freske asked the haulers to think about whether
they would continue to recycle if an organized collection
system was not established and be ready to reply when the
Hearing convened again.
Aagard West asked if the organized system was for
residential or also commercial customers? The Council
replied just for residential.
Corrow said he was concerned about loosing customers
just before the organized system was put in place. The
Council replied that this would not be the case, that the
customer count would be based on the last 12 months.
All Council Members voted in favor of the motion. The
Hear g was recessed (continued) until February 24,-.1992 at
6M3
tbRMAN F FRESKE, MAYOR
OUG LINDENFELSER, COUNCIL
LOYD RODEN, COUNCIL
LARRY FOURNIER, COUNCIL
RONALD G BLACK, COUNCIL
ATTEST:
JP/eb
JEROME PERRAULT, CLERK