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In addition to these required steps, the City utilized a number of additional means to gather public and hauler input into the City's decision -making process, including (but not limited to): Research on the organized collection statute and relevant case studies by City staff and legal counsel (Willard Converse, of Jensen, Bell, Converse, & Erickson, P.A.). Surveys by City staff as to the residents' satisfaction with the current system and willingness to change to an organized collection system alternative. Multiple meetings of the City's Solid Waste Commission over a period of almost two years 1989 — 1990 (held approximately every month), including participation by the local haulers. Meetings and contract negotiations between City staff and individual haulers. Meetings and contract negotiation between City staff and the consortium of haulers. Through the organized collection planning process, the City and the affected haulers that were currently serving Vadnais Heights residents at that time continued to discuss the option of a City contract with a consortium. This option continued to gain favor by both the City and the haulers as a preferred alternative to the original scenario for one contract with one hauling company. In the end, the City decided to organize under a "zoned" system under one contract to the VHG consortium of haulers. The proposed contract (as of August 1990) displayed the total number of residential accounts (i.e., stops) for each hauler as of January 1, 1990 (before the organized collection process officially began) and then proposed under the new City — VHG contract in each zone: Hauler Total No. of Accounts Total No. of Accounts as of 1/1/90 in Each Zone (Proposed) Bellaire Sanitation 1,579 1,525 Wood Lake Sanitation 886 845 Twin City Sanitation 250 350 Wynne's Rubbish Removal 300 258 Wildwood Sanitation 66 70 Red Arrow Sanitation 22 50 Haul -a -Way 22 43 Lake Sanitation 192 200 In the end, VHG as the hauler consortium became its own corporate entity and served as a single point of contact and contracting for the City. VHG was in control of its membership such that acquisitions and other transfers of interest were handled internally by the consortium. It was stated in one of the public hearings that the consortium would be able to accept requests by other haulers to join (such that the above list was not necessarily the final split of accounts within VHG). The new organized collection system went into effect January 1, 1991. The City and R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC • 25 June 2009