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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, July 18, 2016 Page 18 Mr. Johnson further detailed options for park and/or trail pick-up and frequency, providing a variety of costs depending on the actual park, frequency of use, and locations of trails and their accessibility. In conclusion, and based on the presented information, Mr. Johnson concluded that Eureka Recycling was staff's recommendation with a five year contract in- cluding park collection, and vendor owned carts. Mr. Johnson asked for City Council feedback and authorization to initiate negotia- tions with their selected contractor, followed by future City Council approval of a contract in August ar September of 2016. Councilmember Etten asked staff to describe the scenarios listed for organics col- lection looking to the future, and what they thought may work better based on the submitted proposals from these four firms. Mr. Johnson noted all proposals, if applicable, considered organic collection as an opt-in program, with the city or contractor chosen to publicize that offering and direct contact with the resident to sign up with the vendor. Similar to the current waste stream option, Mr. Johnson advised that the intent would be to use smaller vehicles with fewer stops given the lighter load; with the option available should there be sufficient interest among Roseville residents to make it feasible. If there was enough interest, Mr. Johnson advised that staff would work with the chosen vendor to renegotiate prices if and when that interest became high enough. Mr. Johnson noted there was a large range of prices in that particular market right now depending on where those organic markets were found. At the request of Councilmember Etten, Mr. Johnson noted the various collection options also available depending on the contractor; but confirmed in the short- term organics collection would be a separate bill between the vendor and resident, with no involvement by the city other than the customer service realm, with a list provided to the city by the vendor of those homes participating. In the scoring area, Councilmember Etten noted the past performance low mark received by the current vendor, Eureka Recycling, and asked if that service issue would be addressed in the future if Eureka was the chosen vendor. Mr. Johnson advised that staff's rationale in the low rank on the performance sheet was based on a late annual mailing at the time he was performing reviews of the company, with that mailing two months behind schedule. Mr. Johnson ad- vised that, in all fairness to Eureka and other proposers, he did not seek out the reasons for that delay, but simply noted that as a performance issue without fur- ther explanation.