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<br />City of Arden Hills <br />City Council Meeting for November 13, 2017 <br /> <br />Page 1 of 2 <br /> CONSENT ITEM – 6D <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />DATE: November 13, 2017 <br /> <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members <br /> William S. Joynes, Sr., City Administrator <br /> <br />FROM: Matthew Bachler, Senior Planner <br /> <br />SUBJECT: 2018 Curbside & Non-Curbside Recycling Fees <br /> <br /> <br />Requested Action <br /> <br />Motion to Approve Resolution 2017-043 setting the 2018 Curbside and Non-Curbside Recycling <br />Fees. <br /> <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />The Arden Hills recycling program includes weekly curbside recycling collection and the annual <br />(spring and fall) community cleanup day events. Curbside collection is provided by Republic <br />Services. The community cleanup day events are operated jointly with the City of Shoreview. <br />The recycling budget is an enterprise fund that receives revenues from the annual household fee <br />that is applied to the property taxes and from the SCORE grant provided by Ramsey County. The <br />majority of the expenses are for the collection services provided by Republic Services. Since <br />there are no other dedicated funding sources, the revenue must be balanced with the expenses. <br /> <br />The per unit fee charged by Republic Services for curbside collection is expected to increase in <br />May 2018 based on changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the Federal Reserve for the <br />Upper Midwest. Based on the anticipated cost of the collection services and the expected <br />revenue from the SCORE grant funds and revenue share, the annual fee for residents receiving <br />curbside collection is proposed to decrease from $50.00 to $49.00. This fee includes the cost of <br />the community cleanup day events as well. <br /> <br />Staff is proposing a decrease in the annual fee for each housing unit that is not part of the <br />curbside recycling program from $2.75 to $2.50. This fee would be applied to Cottage Villas, <br />Hunters Park Condos, Parkshore Apartments, Arden Manor, E Street Flats, Arden Flats, and <br />Johanna Shores. Although these properties contract separately for recycling services, they <br />participate in the cleanup day events and the fee covers their portion of these events.