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the SBWMA Board's meeting of October 26, 2006. 78 Page 3 Analysis Attachment A to this staff report contains copies of the slides that will be presented at the meeting. It summarizes the core and optional services (including estimated diversion impact and estimated rate impact), business terms, and selection process recommended by the SBWMA Board. The actual rate impact will be a function of the compensation requested by those companies which is based on certain operational and financial assumptions made by the companies and the competitiveness of the market at the time. Therefore, the actual impact may be different than that estimated. The collection system currently servicing the member agencies residential customers is relatively labor intensive. The recommended residential core programs will replace the current two-person refuse collection vehicles, collection of recyclables and yard waste every other week, refuse collection cans, recycling tubs, etc. Instead, with the SBWMA's recommended core programs, collection will occur weekly (for all materials) at the curb (with side/back-yard service for disabled customers and for others at an additional fee), with one-person automated collection vehicles that will collect materials from carts that customers can roll (rather than have to be lifted). This will include recycling carts into which customers can place an expanded list of recyclables without separating them first, resulting in an estimated 20% - 30% increase in recycling volume. Optional residential programs available to the City at an expected additional cost include: expanded on-call clean-ups of additional materials; community clean-up and e-waste events; curbside collection of used oil and filters as well as household batteries; residential food waste collection; and, alternative fuel vehicles. Council will not need to make a decision as to which, if any, options need to be selected until a contractor is recommended by the SBWMA and firm prices are known. We expect this to occur in late 2008. The current refuse collection from multi-family customers is less labor intensive and our challenge here has focused primarily, but not exclusively, on improving diversion from these customers in order to sustain our exceeding the state diversion mandates. Instead of waiting for multi-family and commercial customers to request recycling services, the SBWMA core programs will roll out more aggressive outreach and technical assistance to encourage recycling. For those customers with space constraints, shared recycling bins will be provided. On-call collection services of bulky waste as well as the increasing variety of special wastes (e-waste, universal waste2, etc.) will be offered to customers. As SBWMA rolls out optional programs, recycling assistance and containers will be provided to all multifamily complexes. Similarly, site visits to larger customers and telephone assistance for others will be available to commercial customers, and the collection of materials separated into wet and dry waste streams (that afford the opportunity to divert more material from landfill disposal) may be provided. Also, as an option, proposers will be requested to provide alternative fuel vehicles. The current contract terms are also recommended for revision. The recommended collection contract term of seven years may be extended to as much as 20 years based on the contractor's satisfactory performance, at the member City's sole discretion. The contractor's compensation will place greater risk on the contractor (limiting increases in costs by certain indices) while allowing for periodic reviews of detailed costs. Rates for collection services will continue to be set by each member City. Additional areas of service (e.g., customer service call center) will be subject to performance standards and liquidated 2 Universal waste is considered batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment, and lamps. 3