RES 1984-56 - 00005422105
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT MANAGEMENT STUDY OF
METROPOLITAN WASTE CONTRCL 00MKISSION
BE IT RESCLVED by the City Council of the City of Fridley, Minnesota, as
' follows:
WHEREAS, many municipal officials, businessmen and other persons throughout
the metropolitan area have expressed grave concern about the operations of the
Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, and
WHEREAS, in recognition of such concerns, Governor Rudy Perpich commendably
appointed an able and representative Governor's Citizen's Commission to review
the NWCC, and
WHEREAS, such commission conducted an extensive investigation of the
operations of the MCC and of public perceptions of it, and
WHEREAS, such commission, on December 29, 1983, reported its findings and
recommendations to the Governor of the State of Minnesota, and
WHEREAS, such recommendations included a recommendation for the conduct of an
independent management study of M9CC, and
WHEREAS, the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities, the Association of
Metropolitan Area Managers, the Suburban Rate Authority, and others concurred
in the recommendation that such an independent management study be conducted,
and
WHEREAS, it appears that the state planning office has undertaken initial
steps towards obtaining such an independent study, and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid organizations have expressed their interest in
providing representation on a committee which would help to formulate the work
program for such study, to monitor its progress and to evaluate its
conclusions, and
WHEREAS, it is critical to the credibility and acceptability of any such
management study that it be an independent study, rather a study done under
the supervision and control of the MCC, and
WHEREAS, such commission recommended a number of measures requiring
legislative action, but it now appears that the Governor's office has chosen
not to support any such legislature action at this time, and
WHEREAS, the compromising or abandoning of the concept of an independent
management study, especially when coupled with a lack of legislative action,
would constitute a severely damaging blow to the hopes and expectations of
those who have been working in good faith to establish a higher level of
confidence in the MVCC,
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NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESCLVED by the City Council of the City of Fridley, as j
follows: it
1. This council strongly endorses and urges the conduct of an independent
management study of the MWCC as recommended by the Governor's Citizens
Commission to review the MCC,
2. This council believes that such study will have maximum value only if it
is an independent study formulated and conducted through the use of an
advisory committee broadly representative of the municipalities in the
metropolitan area.
3. This council urges the Governor of the State of Minnesota and other
appropriate officials to take whatever actions may be necessary to initiate
such an independent study at the earliest possible date.
4. Let a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the Governor of the State
of Minnesota, the chairman and members of the Metropolitan Waste Control
Commission, the chairman and members of the Metropolitan Council and the
members of the Minnesota State Legislature representing this City.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FRIDLEY THIS 7TH DAY OF
MAY, 1984.
ATTEST:
SIDNEY C. INMADI -CITY CLERIC
2/8/17/6
WILLIAM J. - MAYOR