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Amending section 220.05 of the Legislative Code, to set rates for base level garbage service to be effective January 1, 2021 and changing the rate calculation from a rate that includes taxes to a rate that excludes taxes.
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SECTION 1
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul has a Residential Coordinated Trash Collection program; and
WHEREAS, the program is governed by a contract between the City and St. Paul Haulers, LLC, a limited liability company, comprised of members who are residential solid waste collectors licensed to do business in the City; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the contract, the City Council adopted rates for base level garbage service that were effective beginning on October 1, 2018; and
WHEREAS, section three (3) of the contract provides that the rates for Trash Collection Costs and Disposal Costs shall be adjusted annually; the contract requires the City Council to approve any required price adjustments; and
WHEREAS, the most recent annual rate adjustment was approved by the Council on November 13, 2019 for rates effective January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020; and
WHEREAS, section 3.1.3 of the contract provides that the non-fuel portion of the Trash Collection Costs shall be subject to an increase equal to the increase of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the Midwest Region - All Items Less Energy (CPI-U) for the previous twelve-month period; this is a required price adjustment; and
WHEREAS, according to the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percent change in the CPI-U for the period of July 2019 to June 2020 was 1.5 percent; and
WHEREAS, section 3.1.5 of the contract provides that the Disposal Cost shall be adjusted annually based on the changes to the hauler ‘net contracted rate’ for disposal costs at the trash disposal facility and the actual average tonnages collected in the prior 12 months; this is a required price adjustment; and
WHEREAS, the ‘net contracted r...
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