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<br />5 ß,f <br /> <br />Solid Waste Collections Rate Increase <br />February 22, 1999 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />1997 <br /> <br />1998 <br /> <br />1999 <br /> <br />1997 Actual Deficit <br />1998 Actual Deficit <br />1999 Required rate increase <br />Subtotal: 1999 Total Shortfall <br />Balancing Account Repayment <br />Total: 1999 Recommended Increase <br /> <br />4.8% <br /> <br />4.8% <br />3.4% <br /> <br />4.8% <br />3.4% <br />1.3% <br />9.5% <br />6.5% <br />16.0% <br /> <br />Fiscal Impact <br />. The requested increase translates to a $1.88 increase for the average residential <br />customer using one 40-gallon container for solid waste collection bringing the total <br />container rate to $13.62 from $11.74.0 Approximately 58% of residential customers <br />in Redwood City subscribe to this level of service. Redwood City's rates (expressed <br />in terms of cost per gallon of waste collected) will be the third lowest of the members <br />in the Joint Powers Authority (JPA) and seventh of the nineteen cities surveyed. <br />Exhibit A presents the results of this survey. <br /> <br />Please note that this increase is not the result of the recent approval for BFI to <br />purchase yard waste carts for all Redwood City residents. This potential increase <br />would have occurred without the purchase of the carts. <br /> <br />. The following pullout charges (per container per pull) are recommended: <br /> <br />5-1 0 feet <br />11-20 feet <br />21-30 feet <br />31-40 feet <br />41-50 feet <br />51-60 feet <br /> <br />$2.00 <br />4.00 <br />6.00 <br />8.00 <br />10.00 <br />12.00 <br /> <br />Pullout charges are recommended for those customers where it is necessary for the <br />driver to get out of the truck to move the container so the truck can mechanically <br />empty the container into the garbage truck. The pullout charges are being <br />recommended to help offset revenues lost for the lifeline rates and to charge large <br />volume customers a more accurate cost of their service. <br /> <br />. Establish a lifeline rate for a 20-gallon can at $5.87 per month with no rate increase. <br /> <br />(lj\}o.A~) 1'1 R.ø~~ <br />Chris H. Rogers <br />Billing & Collections Manager <br /> <br />!!I&¡ <br /> <br />Director of Finance and <br />Financial Planning <br /> <br />Ed(!{W <br /> <br /> <br />City Manager <br /> <br />Exhibits <br />A. Collection Rates throughout the Bay Area <br /> <br />o. '~"-'-"~"o'r .. <br />