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Council tables 310 NE Main garbage nuisance action; city explores attaching sanitation bills to utility billing
Summary
Council tabled enforcement of a garbage nuisance at 310 NE Main Street pending follow-up and directed staff to check status; administration reported exploring a utility-billing model to collect sanitation fees similar to another city’s approach.
The Mahnomen City Council tabled formal enforcement of a second-notice garbage complaint for 310 NE Main Street, citing ongoing progress and weather-related removal challenges. The packet includes a second notice letter from City Administrator Taylor Guenther citing a violation of §50.04 (container placement) and setting a prior compliance deadline; the minutes show council elected to check the status of the property on the next Monday and to revisit the matter at the subsequent council meeting.
Separately, Administrator Guenther told the council she is researching a billing approach to attach WE Sanitation charges to city utility bills, citing the city of Callaway’s system where residents are billed by can size and nonpayment can lead to service cutoff after two months. Guenther said further research would be done; no policy change or pilot program was approved at the meeting.
The minutes record that council members who reviewed the kiosk proposal for needle exchange deemed large kiosks counterproductive to the city’s image and did not approve the request, though members McArthur and Phillips sought alternative locations. The packet materials and minutes emphasize that nuisance abatement remains the property owner’s responsibility if removal is not completed.
