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The Counties carefully considered organizing collection for both residential and commercial solid wastes. They decided against organizing but implemented their "County Environmental Charge" to be collected by waste haulers on their customer bills. The waste haulers also signed waste delivery agreements to deliver MSW to the processing facility in Newport. Beginning in 2007, Washington County (as well as Ramsey County) changed their contractual arrangement for waste processing with RRT (formally NRG) to what is now referred to as a "merchant approach." RRT is now responsible for waste delivery contracting. Their contract tipping fee rates escalate over time until they are contractually set at $72.00 per ton in 2012, the last year of the current processing contract. Washington and Ramsey Counties payments for processing to RRT trend downward as the hauler tipping fee rates increase. The approach is meant to establish RRT Resource Recovery's Newport facility as a "merchant facility," able to stand on it's own without a county processing contract after 2012. RRT has two types of contracts for waste delivery — "All Waste" and "Contracted Waste". Not all haulers serving Woodbury are contracted to deliver all the waste they collect to the processing facility. Those with "All Waste" contracts serving Woodbury include: Highland Sanitation, Maroney's Sanitation, Tennis Sanitation, Troje's Trash Service and Waste Management. Haulers with "Contracted Waste" contracts include Allied Waste Services and Veolia. The Washington County Environmental Charge on the hauler bills is currently set at 28%. The funds are used for solid waste related purposes with the majority used to make the processing payments to RRT. St. Paul The city of St. Paul has a long history of considering organized collection as noted in Section 4.8. St. Paul is an urban, core City. There are residents who are strong advocates for maintaining their choice for their waste hauler. There are also strong District Councils within the City that have been active in solid waste and recycling issues. Eureka Recycling provides both single family curbside and multi -family (above four-plexes) residence recycling collection and processing service for the City. Eureka Recycling provides a strong voice for recycling, zero waste and is working on plans for residential organic waste collection in the City. As noted in the Woodbury section above, Ramsey County is involved in the same activities as Washington County including the contract with RRT, the public collection study, the County Environmental Charge and the merchant facility approach. The County Environmental Charge for Ramsey County is 28% for residential and 53% for commercial customers. 4.4.2 Organized System Cities Blaine As noted, the city of Blaine hauler for residential collection was Waste Management when this study began, but changed to Veolia as the result of a competitive bidding process completed in October. Waste Management was reported to be providing excellent service. Nevertheless, the City issued an RFP for competitive proposals and received proposals from four hauling companies. According to the City's analysis of the bids, over the seven year term of the contract, the bid submitted by Veolia was projected to save the City over $1.2 million compared to Waste 86 •Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc June 2009