Elected Official Comments
February 26, 2015, ABC Newspapers
Schulte compared Coon Rapids’ situation to Blaine, which has operated with consolidated hauling since the 1970s.
He said Coon Rapids had a lower road-costs-per-mile than Blaine, so the premise that open hauling was causing undue damage to the streets didn’t hold up for him.
“It didn’t make sense that a single-hauler system is easier on our roads,”
- Anoka County Commissioner Scott Schulte
(Former Coon Rapids City Councilmember)
October 2014, North Metro Cable Interview
"I served on the citizens committee for whether or not the city was going to make a decision concerning (organized) solid waste. I was against it, and I still am against it. It turned out, the people say that the garbage trucks destroy the roads. I looked at how old the roads were and every single road in Lexington, all of those roads were lasting 30 years. And that was with all the garbage trucks driving on it. That was with deferred maintenance. So overall our roads are lasting as long as they need to...
- Lexington Mayor Mark Kurth
February 26, 2015, ABC Newspapers
Schulte compared Coon Rapids’ situation to Blaine, which has operated with consolidated hauling since the 1970s.
He said Coon Rapids had a lower road-costs-per-mile than Blaine, so the premise that open hauling was causing undue damage to the streets didn’t hold up for him.
“It didn’t make sense that a single-hauler system is easier on our roads,”
- Anoka County Commissioner Scott Schulte
(Former Coon Rapids City Councilmember)
October 2014, North Metro Cable Interview
"I served on the citizens committee for whether or not the city was going to make a decision concerning (organized) solid waste. I was against it, and I still am against it. It turned out, the people say that the garbage trucks destroy the roads. I looked at how old the roads were and every single road in Lexington, all of those roads were lasting 30 years. And that was with all the garbage trucks driving on it. That was with deferred maintenance. So overall our roads are lasting as long as they need to...
- Lexington Mayor Mark Kurth
