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74 of this reported license application data compared to actual rates. Table 2 shows the difference between the weighted -average reported fees vs. average proposed fees (trash + recycling) is 2% lower (($18.45 - $18.00)/$18.445). 5. Limited data from six Saint Anthony Village invoices, all within Hennepin County, indicated a range of total monthly rates for trash/recycling services from $24.50 to $29.22 per household per month with a simple average of $26.69 (after taxes). This is a very limited sample size, however, and it can be expected that additional invoices would reveal total monthly rates that are both lower and higher than this range. 6. To calculate an estimated savings, the collectors compared current market rates as paid by their residential customers within the current open hauling system to the proposed prices for the City contract (Table 1). These rates paid by residents vs, proposed contract prices are not directly comparable. The City will have some additional costs that also will need to be added into the rates to be charged to residents under the proposed system. 7. The City's total ongoing administrative costs could be up to about $50,000 per year under one scenario (e.g., at an additional 0.5 FTE). This is the equivalent of about $1.74 per household served per month. 8. The proposed price schedule (Table 1) has the same rate of $12.35 per household per month for the small cart, every other week (EOW) trash service level as the small trash cart collected weekly. EOW trash service means 26 collections per year instead of the normal weekly service which is 52 collections per year. The proposed EOW trash price should reflect this savings in cost of operations. Other cities have seen a 23% to 39% contract price discount for EOW trash service compared to the same size trash cart collected weekly. 9. The following tentative conclusions can be developed by comparing the collector - proposed prices for Saint Anthony Village vs. other cities' contract prices (Table 4): The collector -proposed trash (only) prices are an average of 38% higher than the other contract cities analyzed. The proposed total (trash + recycling) prices are an average of 33% higher than the other cities' contract prices. (These comparisons are all from prices before taxes. The differences will be greater when taxes are included.) ♦ These results are similar to data from other studies that have compared open hauling vs. contract prices for trash/recycling services. ♦ The City may be able to obtain lower contract prices through an alternative method of organized collection, especially if a competitive procurement process is used.