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MEMORANDUM
Environmental Services
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PO Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
970.221.6600
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Date: April 15, 2022
To: Mayor Arndt and City Councilmembers
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Thru: Kelly DiMartino, Interim City Manager, A Ds
Kyle Stannert, Deputy City Manager rk-i-
Jacqueline Kozak Thiel, Chief Sustainability Officer Fie
'Lindsay Ex, Environmental Services Director
From: Caroline Mitchell, Program Manager, Waste Reduction and Recycling
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Re: April 12, 2022 Work Session Summary: Contracting for Garbage (Trash), Recycling
and Compost
Attendees: All Councilmembers were present. Caroline Mitchell and Lindsay Ex provided the
presentation. The meeting was conducted via the zoom platform.
Purpose: Staff presented an overview of the work to date to explore Council's adopted priority ("Explore
a Districted System for Garbage, Recycling and Compost"), including peer community research, and the
results of community engagement to date.
Discussion Summary:
• Councilmembers supported efforts to continue pursuing contracting, including the following
points:
o Councilmembers noted specific goals they were seeking to achieve with contracting (see
below) while also noting openness to pursuing other options that might achieve the same
goals and benefits
o Support was expressed to continue exploring districting as one of the options under
consideration
o Councilmembers discussed why this is a priority now, including connections to achieving
the community's zero waste and climate goals and how the hauler landscape has
changed
• Councilmembers identified the following goals to consider in further development:
o Improved air quality
o Fewer trucks in our neighborhoods and less wear and tear on roads and the associated
savings
o Efficiency of services, particularly as composting comes online and the opportunity to
bundle yard trimmings
o Achieving the Road to Zero Waste goal as a community and the facilities needed to
support that infrastructure and associated policies
o Sustainable practices of the hauler(s) selected
o Ensuring competition in the initial processes, as well as the ongoing processes, and what
control mechanisms can be put into place to limit price increases
o Ensuring equity and understanding how different community members are differently
impacted, particularly in pricing and customer service
• Additional Discussion
a Recognition of feedback from community members wanting choice on their trash hauler
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o Discussed the opt -out fee and that the price point would be set later in the process
o Discussion around what would happen to hauler(s) not awarded a contract (haulers not
awarded a contract would lose market share for single family customers; haulers would
continue to have their existing HOA, commercial, multi -family and construction site
customers as well as 12-18 months to plan before contract was implemented)
o Discussion of flow control (designating the place of trash disposal); flow control decision
would be made later in the process
Follow Up Items:
• Explore Pueblo and continue to look at other communities as possible peer examples, as well as
nationwide statistics on the different systems
• Better understand the state's legislation around contracting only for single family and small multi-
family complexes and whether there are opportunities to influence that going forward
• Understand how much of the city contracted trash and recycling service would impact, particularly
the percentage of single-family homes and multi -family dwellings with fewer than seven units
• Provide more information about the competitive purchasing process
Next Steps:
• Staff will conduct community and hauler engagement about the details of a contracted system
o Future surveys will include advantages and tradeoffs of a contracted system
• July 12th Work Session, which will include more specific scenarios and tradeoffs for
consideration, as well as the follow-up items noted above unless they are able to be provided
sooner
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