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Item 5.5. <br /> <br />City <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />Stephen Rohlf, Building and Zoning Administrator <br /> <br />January 22, 2002 <br /> <br />Request for Funding by the Boys and Girls Club <br /> <br />The Boys and Girls Club is requesting $36,500 from the City's landfill abatement fund to <br />finance their Recycling/Environmentalist program. To help promote recycling, landfill <br />abatement funds where used to buy products made of recycled materials for the Boys and <br />Girls Club when it was built. The Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance <br />interpreted this as an appropriate use of landfill abatement monies. A stipulation attached to <br />this ai~ was that the Boys and Girls Club was required to do recycling education. The <br />Recycling/Environmentalist position being discussed is a result of that stipulation. <br /> <br />The city funded the Recycling/Environmentalist position in 2001, on a year-by-year basis. <br />Staff feels that this program is a good use of landfill abatement funds and is recommending <br />that the city grant the current request. In the chance that these funds are needed for a <br />more critical issue in the future, staff further recommends this approval is again only a <br />one year commitment. " <br /> <br />Staff is not requesting that the Recycling/Environmentalist position designate 10 hours per <br />week to aid the city, as in 2001. However, as a stipulation of the city providing this funding, <br />staff may request the assistance of whoever holds this position for special projects <br />periodically. <br /> <br /> <br />