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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, 2025 - March 31, 2025.
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SECTION 1
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul has a Residential Coordinated Trash Collection program; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul (“the City”) entered into a Residential Solid Waste, Yard Waste, and Bulky Waste Collection Agreement (“the Agreement”) with the St. Paul Hauler’s (“the Consortium”) for the collection of residential trash; and
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WHEREAS, pursuant to the Agreement, the City Council adopted rates for base level garbage service that were effective beginning on October 1, 2018; and
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WHEREAS, Section (3) of the Agreement provides that the rates for Trash Collection Costs and Disposal Costs shall be adjusted annually; the Agreement requires the City Council to approve any required price adjustments; and
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WHEREAS, the most recent annual rate adjustment was approved by the Council on October 25, 2023 for rates effective January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024; and
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WHEREAS, the City and Consortium entered in to an extension of this contract for the period of October 1 2023-March 31, 2025; and
WHEREAS, this extension eliminated Section 3.1.1 and 3.1.3 of the Agreement outlining that only an increase in disposal cost would be allowed for Quarter 1 2025; and
WHEREAS, Section 3.1.5 of the Agreement provides that the Disposal Cost shall be adjusted annually based on the changes to the hauler’s net contracted rate for disposal costs at the trash disposal facility and the actual average tonnages collected in the prior 12 months, which is a required price adjustment; and
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WHEREAS, the ‘net contracted rate’ for disposal costs at the trash disposal facility was increased to $130 per ton and the actual average tonnage collected in the prior 12 months was 58,343 tons; and
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WHEREAS, the Agreement does not contain any other required price adjustments that affect the 2025 base level garbage service rates...
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