84-6891R25
RESOLUTION N0. 6$91
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING
INDEPENDENT MANAGEMENT STUDY OF
METROPOLITAN WASTE CONTROL COMMISSION
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
Citizens Commission to review the MWCC, and
WHEREAS, such commission conducted an extensive investigation of
the operations of the MWCC 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 MWCC, 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
[dHEREAS, 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
than a study done under the supervision and control of the MWCC,
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 legislative
action at this time, and
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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 riWCC,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOL'
by the City Council of the City of
as follows:
1. This council strongly endorses and urges the conduct of
an independent management stiudy of the MWCC as recommended by the
Governor's Citizens Commiss~,on to review the MWCC.
2. This council believes that such study will have maximum
value only if it is an indep~,endent study formulated and conducted
through the use of an advi~ory committee broadly representative
of the municipalities in thel metropolitan area.
3. This council urges the Governor of the State of
Minnesota and other appro~l~priate 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 by the City Council of the City of Richfield this 14th day of
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ATTEST:
is K. Berg Cit ler
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