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Attachment C <br />this process. In addition and importantly, the City will not have to take a burdened cash flow <br />position based on agreed upon payment terms, saving the City money as well. <br />2.We will ensure that all alleys are serviced first on any route, providing a lighter truck and <br /> <br />3.In addition to a Hauler funded annual calendar/education mailing, we will work with the City on <br />education and communication, including annual school programs to educate and encourage <br />recycling. We will also provide content for final approval by the City for any City materials <br />needed, such as City newsletters and websites. <br />4.A minor issue brought up by the Council was around our pricing for 30 gallon every-other-week <br />service (EOW). For complete disclosure, we submitted the same price as every week service <br />simply because none of our respective companies (and none we know of) offer EOW service, <br />and only two cities in the metro have this as an option in City contracts Shakopee and <br />Maplewood, who both made this a requirement in their RFP specs. As Haulers, we recognize the <br />potential health concerns and smell of leaving trash sit in containers for two weeks. Republic <br />has the contract for Shakopee and residents are not signing up for the service. This was a <br />recommendation by Foth and a service not embraced by the Haulers or residents. That being <br />said, if this is a service the City truly believes is needed then we will readdress our pricing. <br />5.Our revised pricing structure is attached on three separate spreadsheets, one that details trash <br />disposal, trash collection and recycling collection, and the other two that summarize our <br />proposed options compared to similar other metro cities. We have offered two options for <br />consideration. One pricing structure is based on a term of 5 years and the other, lower priced <br />option is based on a term of 7 years. The cost of removing, cleaning and redistributing carts is an <br />expensive one-time hit for the Haulers and the longer we can amortize that expense the more <br />epared to <br />take. Given the size of the City, our efficiency gains will be very small by zoning the City. None <br />of us will take trucks off the street as a result of this Consortium and we have had a steady <br />cant marketing dollars spent to battle for <br />share in the City that will be saved as a result of the agreement. Virtually every penny taken off <br />of our current pricing is incremental profit that will be lost. That being said, we would like to <br />finalize the Consortium so we can each still maintain some modest profitability in the City. <br />Going out for RFP has proven to become an irrational end game for both the haulers and the <br />City in most cases. <br />6.A significant item to address is comparing true market pricing and terms for similarly sized and <br />dense cities as St. Anthony Village using the Consortium model. The same attached <br />spreadsheets, based on information pulled directly out of the current contracts shows what the <br />original pricing, along with current pricing and length of agreement is for each City under the <br />Consortium Agreements. Also attached are the relevant pages from the actual contracts for <br />these relevant Consortium cities like Champlin, Vadnais Heights and Little Canada. As you will <br />see in these cities, the prices we offer are comparable to current actual prices for a 5 year <br />agreement and lower or comparable for a 7 year agreement (when factoring in the cost of the <br />