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46 credited back to residents and the city meets all minimum program requirements. The additional ten percent (10%) may be used for municipal administrative and promotional expenses. 6. Reporting Requirements. a.) An annual recycling report must be submitted electronically to the County utilizing the Re-TRAC web -based reporting system by February 15 of each year. If a municipality is unable to access the Re= TRAC system, the County must be contacted by February 1 to make arrangements for alternative filing of the required report. b.) The municipality must calculate its participation rate in the curbside recycling program during the month of October. The participation rate will be reported in Re-TRAC. The methodology for measuring participation must be provided to the County upon request. c.) An annual planning document must be submitted to the County describing the programs or activities the applicant will implement to increase recycling and make progress toward County goals. Recycling Performance. On an annual basis, municipal recycling programs must demonstrate that a reasonable effort has been made to maintain and increase the average amount of recyclables collected from their residential recycling program to at least 725 pounds per household or a minimum recovery rate of 80%, by December 31, 2015. An alternative performance option for municipalities with organized waste collection is to validate that their municipality has at least a 35% recycling rate. To ensure the accuracy of data for these metrics municipalities will be required, upon request, to provide documentation on the methodology used to calculate performance. To the extent practicable, the results should rely on actual data rather than estimates. Failure by a municipality to demonstrate measureable progress towards one of these goals will result in the requirement that a Recycling Improvement Plan be submitted by the municipality within 90 days of being notified by the County. The Recycling Improvement Plan must be negotiated with the County and specify the efforts that will be undertaken by the municipality to improve its recycling program to yield the results necessary to achieve the 2015 goals. The plan should focus on the following areas: type of container, sort method, materials collected, frequency of collection, education and outreach, performance measurement, and incentives. Funding will be withheld until the municipality's Recycling Improvement Plan is approved by Hennepin County. In cooperation with the County, the municipality may be required to participate in waste and recycling sorts to identify recovery levels of various recyclables in their community. Based on the results of the study, the County and municipality will collaborate to increase the recovery of select recyclable materials being discarded in significant quantities.