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SANITARY LANDFILL Provides for the monitoring of the Elk River Landfill to ensure compliance with the city license and conditional use permit , requirements. Provides for the ongoing investigation and verification of the Elk River Landfill compliance to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) corrective action directive. 2000 BUDGET COMPARED WITH 1999 BUDGET Minnesota state law allows for a surcharge to be collected by municipalities where a sanitary landfill is located. The municipal charge is a maximum of $1.00 per cubic yard of garbage that is disposed within the landfill. . Of this money, the city must place $.25 per cubic yard into a landfill fund whereby expenditures can only take place for waste abatement activities. This $.25 . per cubic yard is the source of revenues that is used to finance this sanitary landfill budget. The landfill fund designated for waste abatement activities will have a 1999 year end balance in excess of $800,000, and surcharge revenues in 2000 are anticipated to exceed $100,000. The expenditures in this budget vary greatly from year to year. The city license and permit is renewed every four years and, in these years, the legal services and other consulting expenses can be higher than normal. Also there are occasional special projects that the city partially funds in conjunction with the landfill. For example, in 1998, the city helped finance the active gas extraction program and this was a one time expenditure. The actual landfill expenses in 1994 and 1995 were in the $77,000 range, while the actuals from 1990-92 were between $118,000 and $128,000. Fromthis data you can tell that the landfill expenses have decreased significantly in the last few years. The main reason for this decrease is that it takes less oversight by city consultants to monitor activities for compliance with city, county, and MPCA requirements. The personal services for this budget includes approximately 5 percent of the time of the building and zoning administrator to ensure compliance with the city's permit and license. The transfer expenditures for police services funds approximately 15 hours of police patrol time per week in order to monitor traffic going to and from the landfill and, in general, to provide adequate police services around the landfill. 68 ..-:. r~_ '" ~ ~ ,.";.;1 ,): . . .