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Attachment A The MorrisLeatherman Company May 2018 Curbside Recycling: Seventy-five percent participate in the curbside recycling program by separating recyclable items from the rest of their garbage. The 25% who do not participate indicate they “rent,” “don’t have enough waste,” “consider it a hassle,” and “their association does that.” Most program participants, 84%, put their recyclables out for collection every two weeks; fourteen percent do so monthly. By a 49%-47%split, participants narrowly support a change to a weeklycollection schedule for recyclables. When changes or improvements are discussed only one suggestion is made by many current participants: fifteen percent would like “bigger containers.” By a 42%-39% margin, residents narrowly oppose a curbside collection program for compostable wastefor an additional fee. The main reasons for opposition are the “additional cost,”“smell,” and “not enough waste to be useful,”while the main reason for support is “general environmental benefits.” If a curbside collection program for compostable wastewere available, 31%, down 19% in two years,of the households surveyedwould be at least “somewhat likely” to participate; but, using standard market projection techniques, only 11% would participate in the new program. As an alternative to a curbside collection system for compostable waste, only 15% are either “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to use a central drop-off location; using standard market projection techniques, only five percent of Roseville households would be expected to use the central location. “Likely users” report they would expect to use the site about “once every other week.” Public Safety: In rating the seriousness of public safety concerns in the City of Roseville, 20% think “drugs” and 19% each feel “youth crimes and vandalism”or “traffic speeding”arethe greatest concern. Fifteen percent feel similarly about “business crimes, such as shoplifting and check fraud.” As in the earlier 2014and 2016 studies, no one category clearly dominates. But, only seven percent consider none of these as serious concerns, one-third of the level inthe survey taken two years ago. Eighty-one percent, down nine percent since the 2016 study,rate the amount of police patrolling in their neighborhood as “about the right amount,” while 15%, twice the 2016 level,think it is “not enough,” and fourpercent see “too much.” 5 24