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City Council - 3 - October 29, 1998 Staff met with Mike Cameron from Oro Loma Sanitary District regarding refuse service. Oro Loma may be interested in taking over the City's refuse. However, Oro Loma currently has a contract with Waste Management for refuse and recycling services. At this time, there appears to be no strategic advantage for the City to have Oro Loma take over the City's refuse as opposed to the City's negotiating directly with Waste Management. S. The City will explore refuse privatization alternatives if the Oro Loma service option is not feasible. Staff met with Dave MacDonald from Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. to discuss refuse and recycling service. Dave requested that information regarding the size of the City's refuse operations be forwarded to him, which has been done. (This information has also been provided to San Leandro Recycling.) He will have his staff review the information to determine the feasibility of providing the same level of service at the same rates as in Oro Loma. Dave also advised me that it is best that the City not consider procuring the residential curbside refuse carts used with automated loaders until a specific vendor is selected. Other recommendations to reduce costs Several other Refuse Enterprise Fund cost saving measures have been identified. They are as follows: (1) To provide the current front loader box refuse collection service, the City must have two staff members available for these routes to push the containers out to the street as part for collection. Staff has surveyed the other jurisdictions and finds that San Leandro is currently the only jurisdiction in the Bay Area providing such service. Staff recommends that customers who have front loader boxes be notified that they will be required to push their container to an accessible location for collection effective early January 1999 as a cost savings measure for the Refuse Enterprise Fund. Commercial account customers will be notified via mail about this change in service delivery. This change will result in the reduction of one full-time staff position; this will be discussed with the City Council in closed session at a future date. (2) Currently the City repairs privately owned front loader and drop boxes for customers free of charge. Staff recommends that this service be eliminated effective early January 1999 and when a privately owned container becomes irreparable, it be replaced by a City -provided container and appropriate demurrage charge be added to the customer's monthly fee. Commercial account customers will be notified of this change via mail. A draft of the letter to commercial refuse customers informing them of these changes is attached (Attachment 2). For those commercial refuse customers who prefer to have their refuse container(s) be collected on the customer's property, the City's standard Hold Harmless Agreement (Attachment 3) will be required.