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CONSENT ITEM MEMORANDUM DATE: November 25, 2013 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members Patrick Klaers, City Administrator FROM: Ryan Streff, City Planner SUBJECT: 2014Curbside Recycling Fee Background The Arden Hills recycling program includes the weekly curbside recycling program and the annual (spring and fall) community cleanup events. The curbside recycling services are provided by Eureka Recycling. The community cleanup events are operated in conjunction with the City of Shoreview. The recycling budget is an enterprise fund that receives revenues from the annual household fee that is applied to the property taxes and from the SCORE grant provided by Ramsey County. The majorityof the expenses are forthe services provided by Eureka. Since there are no other dedicated funding sources, the revenue must be balanced with the expenses. For 2014, theper household fee charged by Eureka Recycling for curbside recycling services is expected to increase by 3percent based on the anticipated change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve for the Upper Midwest. In part because of the increase in the base fee for curbside recycling per household, the annual fee to single family households in the City is proposed to increase from $42.60 to $46.00.The majority ofthe fee increase is related to revenue sharefrom Eureka, which has decreasedsignificantly over the past year. In 2013, the budget reflected an amount of $20,000that would be collected from the revenue share and as of November of this year it is estimated that less than 50% of this amount will actually be collected.The proposed 2014 budget reflects this decrease in revenueand budgets$10,000 for revenue share from Eureka. Staff is not proposing an increase to theannual feefor each housing unit that is not part of the curbside recycling program, which includes Cottage Villas, Hunter’s Park Condos,