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Page 2 of 3 administer this additional event. Note the City of Lino Lakes has a regular, monthly program established utilizing this vendor that has been successful and highly utilized. Freimuth Enterprises, LLC will operate the cleanup event at a location in Arden Hills and residents can drop off accepted items for an established fee. As with the Recycle Technologies event, Freimuth Enterprises is willing to accept coupons for free items. The details of how many free items will be accepted per resident are still being explored. After the coupons, Residents will pay the fee on the pricing list. Please see Attachment A for Freimuth’s rate schedule as well as Attachment B for Recycling Technologies’ rate schedule, for comparison. Freimuth Enterprises, LLC bring their own staff and rolloff containers and they remove everything the same day. The base cost for this service to be onsite is $650.00, plus $2,000.00 for labor and would be covered by SCORE incentive dollars. One Public Works Employee would be needed onsite for the event, to ensure all collected items are removed the same day and to street-sweep the parking lot, if necessary. Staff has verified that SCORE incentive dollars can be used to cover our PW staff time during the event. Assuming an eight-hour day would be $538.00 (Note: For calculating staff time, a full eight-hour day was factored, but actual work time could be less based on event duration and time needed for contractor clean up, etc.). In addition to dropping off unwanted items, the City has the option to include paper shredding at the event, as well. The vendor that Freimuth has worked with at their other events is 1st Choice Document Destruction, Inc. and staff recommends securing this company to provide paper shredding services. Please note that SCORE incentive dollars could also be used to cover the expense related to the paper shredding service, which is $675 ($225 per hour x three hours) and residents could securely shred their personal documents, at no charge to the resident. Estimate costs of additional cleanup event: Freimuth Enterprises, LLC $ 2,650.00 1st Choice Documentation Destruction, Inc. $ 675.00 One City Employee $ 538.00_ Total (max cost of event) $ 3,863.00 We are proposing this as a one-time event as Ramsey County cannot guarantee that the same level of SCORE grant incentive funds will be available next year. If it is determined that incentive funding will continue to be granted at the higher amount, bi-annual or quarterly events could be explored for next year. Staff continues to work with Ramsey County to explore other types of eligible incentives in the event the additional cleanup day in August is not desired or if there are funds left over. Some ideas include reusable bags that could be distributed to residents, the purchase of rain barrels that could be offered to residents at a reduced price or compostable lawn bags for residents’ use. Staff would plan to provide an update to the Council after the August clean up event on options for these additional recycling efforts. For this agenda item, we are seeking Council feedback on hosting an August cleanup event as described above. I will mention that with securing the site and vendors, staff has been tentatively trying to work towards hosting this event on Saturday, August 16th.