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the Minnesota Supreme Court as a potential model for others. They currently collect their service charge on both the hauler bills and part of the property tax statement. WLSSD has a transfer station available for MSW from their service area with the current disposal contract to the city of Superior, WI sanitary landfill. Tipping fees for MSW delivered to the transfer station are approximately $34.00 to $38.00 per ton. WLSSD also has a Materials Recovery Center, Household Hazardous Waste facility, and an Organics Composting Facility. In 2006, WLSSD adopted an ordinance requiring the recovery of organic waste by commercial establishments. Eagan The city of Eagan is not actively involved with MSW management services. They have looked at collection issues and have the City zoned. Dakota County has Hauler Financial Incentive Payment (HFIP) program which pays waste haulers $12.00 per ton to the haulers for waste processing. Rochester The city of Rochester is not actively involved with direct MSW management. Olmsted County is very active with their Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) system which includes their WTE facility, sanitary landfill, as well as facilities to handle recyclables, HHW, yard waste and problem materials. Olmsted County evaluated organizing collection countywide in 2006. The plan was to divide the County into five collection districts. Each district was to be comprised of roughly 20% of the total market and haulers could bid on the exclusive right to provide waste collection service within the County collection district. However, no single waste company could have more than two districts or 40% of the total market. The County decided against organizing when the haulers and customers organized their opposition. The haulers and customers attended the County board meeting (300+ in attendance). The haulers paid for and appeared in TV commercials, which ran before the board meeting complaining about the board's actions. The haulers were also quoted in the newspapers, ran their own newspaper advertisements, paid for radio spots and wrote letters to the editor. The County did not organize collection but limited the number of available licenses issued in the County and the haulers signed long-term (15 year) contracts for waste delivery to County facilities. The contracts kept the open competition system in place but provided waste assurance by directing waste to Olmsted's WTE facility with significant penalties for non-compliance. The contract tipping fee at the WTE facility is $83.00 per ton plus a hauler collected service charge of 5% of gross receipts. Starting May 1, 2009 the hauler collected service charge will increase to 17% of gross receipts. Woodbury The city of Woodbury has discussed organized collection to a limited extent. They are reported to require new subdivisions to organize collection when they are established as new subdivisions. Washington County contracted for waste processing along with Ramsey County in the mid- 1980's. MSW is delivered primarily to the Resource Recovery Technologies, Inc. (RRT) Resource Recovery facility in Newport. Washington County along with Ramsey County conducted a detailed evaluation of "public collection" from mid-2001 through the end of 2002. R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC • 85 June 2009