4.4. SR 11-08-1999 - Laserfiche WebLink

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. GARBAGE COLLECTION PROGRAM This budget includes expenditures for service contracts with haulers for the collection of the city garbage and recycling material, payments for disposal of waste at the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) plant, and for the overall administration of the program, including coordination with the Elk River Municipal Utilities for customer billing. 2000 BUDGET COMPARED WITH 1999 BUDGET . The 2000 garbage collection program budget is proposed in the amount of $777,600. This is a $28,850 or approximately 3.9 percent increase over the adopted 1999 budget. This increase is due to more customers receiving garbage and recycling services as the number of single family homes in the city increase. Over the past few years the city has added approximately 150 single-family homes each year and this results in higher hauler contract fees and solid waste disposal expenses. The expenditures for the garbage collection program are shown on the adjacent page. It should be noted that these two line items, the garbage hauler payments and the waste disposal fees, amount to approximately 96 percent of the total budget. This figure is consistent with previous years. The city and garbage hauler contract expires in October 2004. All revenues for the garbage collection program are also shown on the adjacent page. In previous years all revenues, on one form or another, came from customer charges. In 2000, a county payment to the city is scheduled as an incentive for the city to continue its organized garbage collection and recycling programs. By the city having an organized system, it allows for more and more convenient recycling to take place and ensures that the city disposes of all of it residential waste at the RDF Plant. Another revenue source being used in 2000 is reserves. The reserves are mainly customer charges from previous years that are above what is needed to fund the program. The 2000 budget plans to use $31,300 in reserves. . The city started its organized residential garbage collection and recycling program in November 1990. The Elk River Municipal Utilities collects the garbage fees and remits the money to the city on a monthly basis. The city then makes payments to the garbage collection firms and the RDF plant. The garbage collection program deals only with residential properties of four units or less. Currently the city has approximately 4,400 customers. The breakdown of the program shows the collection of approximately 3,310 ninety-gallon containers, 880 thirty-two gallon containers, both of which are picked up weekly, and 310 thirty-two gallon containers that are picked up bi- weekly. In 2000 the city will add a new option of a 60-gallon container that will be picked up weekly and recycling material will be picked up weekly rather than bi-weekly.