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e - . Jeff Alexander September 20, 2004 Page 2 At your request, we have hereby reduced to writing our proposed plan for future handling of solid waste collection in the City of Falcon Heights by stating your goals and those activities which are currently occurring by the haulers in the City of Falcon Heights and those which we feel would be valuable as we go forward. We suggest that if the provisions of this plan are acceptable to the Commission and the City Council, they be incorporated into a Memorandum of Understanding or similar document which also contains a mechanism by which the signatory parties can ensure that the commitments are met. This Memorandum of Understanding would form the basis upon which waste hauling in the City of Falcon Heights would occur into the future and would obviate the need for any further discussion or implementation of organized collection. The following are the "Goals of Solid Waste Collection in Falcon Heights" adopted by the Commission and the NSWMA member haulers' suggestions with respect to those goals. More Efficient 1. Refuse collection shall be on one day of the week for all residences in single- family residential zones. It appears that this goal has already been attained since refuse is currently collected in the City of Falcon Heights only on Fridays. NSWMA member haulers are comfortable with this arrangement since it is already occurring and no further changes in practice are needed to meet this goal. 2. Waste collection base plan shall include refuse, recycling and yard waste, with options provided for appliances and other large objects. NSWMA member haulers who are currently hauling in the City of Falcon Heights collect refuse, recycling and yard waste. They also currently provide options to their customers for appliances and other large objects. Some collect them as a matter of course and others make arrangements with their customers to provide the collection service for these objects either directly or through other available service providers. As a result, the current practices of the NSWMA member haulers in Falcon Heights meets this goal. 3. There shaJ/ be an efficient quarterly billing procedure with clear, itemized charges for each resident. Each of the NSWMA member haulers in Falcon Heights currently bills its customers either on a quarterly or more frequent basis providing itemized charges for each resident it serves. The current billing practices of all of the NSWMA member haulers currently meet this goal.