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MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />Rebecca Haug, Environmental Assistant <br /> <br />DATE: April 19, 2004 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Request for Landfill Abatement Funlds by the Boys and Girls <br />Club <br /> <br />~ taft annc~pates the Boys and Girls Club recluesdng landEdl abatement funds from the ciq~ <br />for 2004. As tU:e council is aware, there are z"ales concernSJgg hox~- landzSIi surcharge money <br />may be spent. ~e ciqes au~tors do sconce ex?en~¢s from d4s ~nd and a report of <br />expen~es is filed ~th ~e M~nesota Stgte Aa~tor annuaHv. <br /> <br />Land~ abatement ~nds are to be spent to encourage newJ !andf~ abatement pro.-ams or <br />mcrease ~e rate of r~c~g. They are not to be spent on k~bsi~mg e~s~:g pro~z~s. <br />TNs is the reason ~e city does not use ~is ~nd as a generkt subsidy for our own curbside <br />recyc~g pro.am. <br /> <br />In 200I the city proxdded the Boys and Girls Club $_8,4~0 ' ~ ~ <br /> 0:tandriI1 abatement mordes. It <br />was meant to be a one-raThe expenditure to encourage a new pro.am. Staff felt this origmal <br />request met the statutory requirement for tlxe.expenditure df tand£~ abatement funds, tt <br />went toward bu/lding displays promod_ng d:e use of recycle~ products duat were <br />mcorporated toro the construction of Club and to buze an E~nvirom~nental Coordinator, <br />whose tim4 was p.~tially spent on recycI&ng education. An ~verage of 10 hours per x, eek of <br />the Envirom~ental Coordinator's thne was to be direcdy dei:oted to the ciq~ to aid with <br />recycUng education in schools, etc. j <br /> <br />In 2002 and 2003 the city provided the Club $36,500 of Land£il abatement money each year. <br />Staff h.~s concerns regarding the use of this money that the Council should be ma~e aware <br />of, prior to allocatmg additional money. <br /> <br />Attached is a letter I sent to Duane Noward of the Boys anc~ Girls Club, dared March 15, <br />2004, concernmg r_heir documentation on l~ow d~e tandfil abatement funds were used <br />(xx;Nch d~e cigr needs for its audi0. Tiae documentation proqdded list item. s such as an "Early <br />B~rd Walk". Clearly, bird watcFang is an inappropriate bndfS1 abatenxenr expenditure. SrafP~ <br />asked for additional documentation on expenditures prior rd our audit but ro dare none has <br />been provided. <br /> <br /> <br />