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such agreements, change, expire or are re-negotiated, current copies of all agreements shall be provided to the City." Waste Management feels that our agreements with our vendors for sale of recyclable materials are confidential and vital to our recycling business. We negotiate agreements for all material received not just the City of Roseville's so our pricing is based on those quantities. We also do not feel that the Marketing Agreements are even necessary information to the City of Roseville. Thc RFP goes onto state that revenue sharing shonld be based on published indexes rather than actual sale amount. Marketing agreements are not applicable to this contract. Revenue Sharing Page 29 Section 8.04. Revenue sharing requires use of published indexed versus actual sale price. Waste Management patiicipates in what is called hedging to guarantee both a stable price and a stable market. We do not always get the published rate, but we are guaranteed a market for our materials. We do not feel that published indexes are valid to revenue sharing. Revenue sharing should be based on what the facility actually gets for the material not a published rate. Processing Facilities Page 25 Section 7.01. The section on materials processing specifies that "The Contractor shall dispose of no more than 5% of material (by weight) as process residnals as part of recyclable materials processing operations." Waste Management's processing facility processes approximately 14,000 tons of recyclable materials each month. The recycling comes from programs that at'e source separated, dual stream, and single stream, multi- family programs, commercial businesses, and source separated commercial fibers. We have done extensive studies of our facility and have determined that we currently operate at approximately a 6 percent residual for the whole plant. This is the satl1e plant that has been processing Roseville's recycling since 2001. Curbside Dual Stream Collection Scenario Page 44 Seetion 10.06. If Contractors propose under dual stream scenario, they should assume materials would be both collected and processed in a dual streatl1mode....It is not acceptable to propose to collect materials in a dual stream mode and then process them in a single stream mode. The City's current program is a dual stream program. Paper products are sorted across Waste Management's Single SortSM line and rigids are sOlied on our rigid only line. The draft RFP as it stands states that this method is unacceptable to the city. This indicates that our current progratTI has been unacceptable to the City of Roseville. That is not the feedback that we have received previously from the City Council. Waste Management is currently providing recycle service to 71 contracts in the Twin Cities area. All of the material that Waste Management collects is processed through our recycling facility. These communities are satisfied with the efficient, safe recycle program that Waste Management provides. We have invested over $10 million in