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The City also hosts a spring clean-up event (first four Saturdays in May) for residents to bring electronics to the public works building. The costs associated with this event are included in the base rate. Residents may also place appliances for curbside collection at no additional charge during the entire month of May. Residents must contact the public works department to participate in the appliance collection. Some additional services are included in the contract at no additional charge to the City. The cost to the hauler for these services are actually likely covered in the base rate charged to residents for their collection service. In Mankato's contract, all the City buildings that have either 35 or 64 gallon containers are serviced for no additional charge. In addition, the hauler is required to provide information to residents about their service options and the day of collection. The hauler is also required to provide at least one recycling seminar per school year at the City schools. Minneapolis Residents may choose from two levels of service including a 22 gallon service or a 94 gallon service. Both levels of service include curbside collection of MSW, recyclable materials, bulky waste (up to two large burnable items each week and up to two metal items/appliances every other week) and seasonal collection of yard waste. Residents may also dispose of up to two additional boxed, bundled or bagged materials outside of their cart. In addition, residents are provided six vouchers per year to drop off additional materials at the Minneapolis Transfer Station and two vouchers per year to drop off tires. This City also has drop-off locations to bring yard waste during the off-season for a fee. Minneapolis charges residents a base fee of $23.00 per month for MSW, recyclable materials, bulky waste and yard waste collection. To distinguish between the two service levels, an additional fee of $4.00 per month is charged for the 94 gallon container and $2.00 per month is charged for the 22 gallon container. These fees cover the disposal costs. Residents who recycle are issued a $7.00 credit to their utility bill each month. Those who do not recycle do not benefit from this credit. In addition, there is a Hennepin County fee applied to each bill to cover costs for research, program development and other environmental services. The fee is a percentage (9%) of the amount the waste generator is billed by their hauler. The final charge included on the bill is Minnesota state tax (9.75%). As with the other organized cities, the rate paid to the hauler is less than the rate residents pay to the City. In the new contract with MRI, the city pays MRI $10.49 per household per month. For that fixed price per month, MRI collects MSW, recyclables, bulky wastes, yard waste, plus additional waste outside the cart. The City retains the total amount less the taxes ($18.00 for the 22 gallon service and $20.00 for the 94 gallon service — if residents recycle) from households that are serviced by City crews. The City funds all the carts, education, disposal tipping fees, HHW, administration, billing, pilot projects and even alley snow plowing and graffiti removal with the remaining funds. St. Cloud St. Cloud utilizes a volume based MSW system combined with recycling. Customers who subscribe to the bag service for MSW collection must purchase "City" bags. These 30 gallon 96 •Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc June 2009