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Attachment C <br /> <br />August 1, 2014 <br /> <br />Mark Casey <br />City Manager <br />St. Anthony Village <br />3301 Silver Lake Road <br />St. Anthony Village, MN 55418 <br /> <br />Dear Mark, <br /> <br />We are excited to present our revised proposal for your consideration. We are confident that after <br />further research and discussions subsequent to the feedback from the City Council Meeting on July 8 we <br />have developed a proposal that meets the needs of both the Residents and City of St. Anthony Village. <br />At a high level the feedback from the City can be summarized in three lines: <br />1.The City is concerned about the length of term of the agreement. We have addressed this by <br />proposing options and provided information on consortium agreements in nearby communities. <br />2., and <br />that we needed to get closer to comparable cities. We have put together a spreadsheet <br /> <br />3.The <br />same attached spreadsheet described above in #2 should help show actual contracted market <br />data. In addition, we have provided excerpts from the actual relevant contracts that outline <br />pricing for the comparable Cities. <br /> <br />We believe our revised proposal addresses all of these issues and more. In addition to the points <br />offered in our initial proposal, we would like to submit the following: <br />1.As a form of significant cost reduction for the City, the Haulers will take on all of the billing, <br />rd <br />customer service and administrative burden. A 3 party industry expert presented the City with <br />an estimated cost of $1.74 for the City to manage these functions, a cost that would be passed <br />on to residents. We believe this estimate is too high and should be closer to $1.00. We propose <br />to take on these functions with no additional cost to the City or residents, effectively reducing <br />the price to be charged to residents from our original proposal. This will also benefit the City by <br />allowing the City to focus on its core strengths and the Haulers to focus on theirs (thus <br /> <br />Optimizing Administrative Efficiency and Allocating Adequate Staff Resources). We now satisfy <br />all Priorities. The City will stay involved as contract owner and ultimate arbitrator for any <br />