City Staff is proposing to enhance residential bulk waste services provided by Community Waste Disposal (CWD).  The proposal stems from the facts that:

• Residents forget to call in to CWD to schedule monthly bulk waste collections;
• Residents often place out for collection more than the limit of five (5) items for bulk collection, thus leaving materials that are not collected to be dealt with.

Both the Community Services and Community Enhancement Departments worked with CWD to explore opportunities for bulk waste program enhancement.  Staff concluded that CWD should:

• Convert the program from a limit of five (5) qualifying bulk items to a volume of six (6) cubic yards of qualifying items. This is a volume of three (3) feet by three (3) feet by eighteen (18) feet; or about six (6) typical washing machines placed side by side. 
• Stop requiring residents to call in to CWD to schedule their monthly bulk waste collections. In the proposal, CWD will drive all the streets and alleys on the specified Saturday bulk collection week and collect qualifying set out bulk materials up to the six cubic yard volume. 

CWD's proposal to accommodate these changes was an increase in residential monthly waste services fee paid by the City to CWD of $0.66.  This increase will take Allen's monthly residential fee paid to CWD from $7.92 to $8.58 per month. 

Due to the financial health of the Waste Services Enterprise Fund, this additional cost of approximately $237,600 in FY22 can be completely absorbed by the fund without necessitating a residential waste services cost increase.  A monthly fee of $15.59 has been the residential waste services rate since June of 2010.  
 
The North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) Solid Waste member cities include Allen, Plano, Richardson, McKinney and Frisco. Every member city offers slightly different residential waste services, so comparing charges to customers is not a direct comparison.  However, the average cost for typical residential services among the five (5) member cities is now $17.33 per month. The costs vary from $15.59 to $19.40 per month. Allen's monthly residential cost of $15.59 is very competitive with the residential charges of other NTMWD Solid Waste System Member Cities.

The City's payments to CWD for residential waste services are adjusted annually by the Department of Labor Consumer Price Index.  Staff establishes the payment rates in the Waste Services Rate Resolution.  The current Rate Resolution, No. 3851-5-21(R), took effect on June 1, 2021.  At that time, the payment rate to CWD for residential services was set at $7.92 per home per month.  The attached rate resolution is identical to the June 1, 2021 Resolution; with the one exception that it sets $8.58 as CWD's new monthly payment for residential services. This increase reflects the CWD cost of $0.66 per home per month to provide enhanced bulk waste services.  The rate resolution does not change residential payments to the City.  It also does not change any of the commercial services rates that are in the Resolution.

Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a Resolution establishing rates and fees for commercial and residential solid waste, recycling, and household hazardous waste services.

I make a motion to adopt Resolution No. ________________ establishing rates and fees for commercial and residential solid waste, recycling, and household hazardous waste services.