St. Paul public works staff on June 1 will present a report and recommendation to the City Council on organized trash collection. The presentation, to be made at 5:30 p.m., will be followed by a public hearing on the recommended goals.
The city now has an open system of trash collection, in which residents contract with their own hauler, and many haulers serve each neighborhood across the city. Under an organized system, haulers are authorized to collect trash from a specific service area.
On Feb. 24, the City Council directed the Public Works Department to get residents' opinions to develop objectives for organized trash collection. The report summarizes that feedback and offers draft objectives should the council decide to move forward. The report will be available online on Wednesday. For more information, visit www.stpaul.gov/organized-trash-collection.
James Walsh
ST. LOUIS PARK
Legislators to hold post-session town hall
Residents of state Senate District 46 — including Hopkins, St. Louis Park, Medicine Lake and parts of Golden Valley and Plymouth — are invited to a town-hall meeting with their legislators to discuss the 2016 session and future priorities.
The meeting will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the council chambers at St. Louis Park City Hall, 5005 Minnetonka Blvd. Sen. Ron Latz and Reps. Peggy Flanagan and Cheryl Youakim, all DFLers, will be available to answer questions from community members.
JOHN REINAN
Oakdale
Historic schoolhouse will open for tours
Historic Eder School at the Oakdale Nature Preserve, 4444 Hadley Av. N., will be open for 10 Sundays this summer starting June 5. The school will not be open for the July 4th weekend.
The schoolhouse, built in 1888, was rural District No. 12 in Washington County. It served a couple generations of area students until the district was consolidated into another in 1920. It was moved and donated to the Oakdale Nature Center in 2004.
