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waste and a 96-gallon cart for mixed recycling and organics which is picked up once a week. Unlike the residential cart service, the commercial and multi-family cart service is not bundled so these customers may customize their service based on their specific needs. In response to these conditions and with the concurrence of PGS, HF&H has created proposed rates for solid waste, mixed recycling, and organics service shown in the tables below. It is recommended that the added frequency and rates be operated as a pilot program to assess the effectiveness of this option, as well as to ensure the rate is covering the cost of providing the service. Any modification to the pilot program, or a recommendation to discontinue the program, would occur as part of the rate setting process for 2020. If the program is successful the rate structure would become permanent July 1, 2021. These proposed rates have been reviewed and approved by PGS. The current rate structure was adopted by the City Council on July 3, 2018, as part of the new franchise agreement. This rate structure employed a different methodology that applied a rate reduction of 13.3% based on the scenario selected by the City Council. The rate scenario selected was the "Balanced Approach" with "Alternative 1". The "Balanced Approach" scenario reduced the residential 35-gallon cart rate and commercial one-and two-times per week collection bin rates (all sizes) to less than comparable agencies' corresponding rates, and evenly applies any remaining balance to all other commercial rates. Alternative 1 raised the 35-gallon cart rate to match the City of Dublin's rate as of July 1, 2018, at $26.06. Because the rate reduction was not applied to every rate, the base rate for a service does not increase by multiples of the frequency of service 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 times per week; that is the rate relationship may be different for each level of frequency. Table 1 shows the current solid waste rates for commercial and multi-family bin service. The last column shows the rate relationship by frequency of pick-ups per week. Table 1. COMMERCIAL/MULTI-FAMILY Cubic Frequency Monthly Increase in RESIDENTIAL RATES Yards of weekly Rate base rate by SOLID WASTE pick up frequency Bin Service (Loose) 1 1 $120.34 BASE RATE 1 2 $245.49 2.04 times 1 3 $382.02 3.17 times 1 4 $500.05 4.16 times 1 5 $618.06 5.14 times Page 3 of 5