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San Rafael City Council
January 19, 2021
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Overview
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
Tonight’s Presentation:
1.2021 Rate Review
2.Illegal Dumping Pilot Program
3.Refuse Vehicle Impact Fee Analysis
4.Public Hearing and Adopt two Resolutions
1.Refuse Vehicle Impact Fee
2.MSS Rates for 2021
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Overview
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
Background
•State allows cities to regulate refuse service
•We work with other Marin jurisdictions
•Annual rate setting is a contractual agreement with MSS
•Based on a specific methodology revised in 2018
•MSS operations = Resource Recovery
•State legislation and diversion goals
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2021 Rate Review
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
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2021 Rate Review
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
Annual Indexed Rate Adjustment Methodology
•New Methodology approved beginning in 2019
•Streamlined, simplified, and less costly
•~2/3 of rate (MSS’s collection compensation) set by nationwide
BLS index WST-CPI –2.91% for 2021
•Predictable and stable rates, addressing fluctuations in most
externalities
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2021 Rate Review
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
2021 Base Increase 3.64%
2021 Illegal Dumping Pilot Funding 0.30%
Refuse Impact Fee ($789,267 in 2021)1.55%
Total Rate Increase 5.49%
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2021 Rate Review
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
Potential Factors on horizon for 2022 rates
•Phasing out of prior true-ups and recycling losses
•COVID-19 impacts
•Longer-term illegal dumping program
•SB 1383 study costs and implementation
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2021 Rate Review
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
SB 1383 -State organic materials diversion mandate
•Ordinance updates, franchise agreement updates
•City requirements and fines
•Working with other MSS jurisdictions
•In place by January 2022
•Enforcement by January 2024
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Illegal Dumping Program
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
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Illegal Dumping Pilot
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
1.~300 complaints per year
2.~$250,000 cost to City / year
3.Almost 100% materials
landfilled
4.50% of residents don’t have
access to bulky waste item
collection
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Illegal Dumping Pilot
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
1.Together San Rafael Learning
Lab project
2.Free bulky waste disposal
events in Canal Neighborhood
3.Free voucher program for
tenants in apartments
4.Free dump coupons for
commercial victims of dumping
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Illegal Dumping Pilot
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
•Research
•Expansion of Team
•Enforcement
•Carrot and Stick approach
•Online “story map”
•New DPW tracking app
•Mattress Recycling Council $
•Big Goal
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Illegal Dumping Pilot: 2021
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
1.Coupons for residents in multi-family housing
2.Vouchers for commercial property owners who
get dumped on
3.Free collection events in 2 neighborhoods
4.Mini-grants for business prevention efforts
5.New forms of messaging and engagement
6.Data gathering through new DPW app, crowd-
sourcing
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Refuse Impact Fee
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
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Refuse Impact Fee
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
•San Rafael has charged MSS an annual Refuse Impact Fee (RIF)to pay for
the cost if impacts to City streets and roads since 2003
•Refuse vehicles are very heavy and have a much higher impact on street
conditions and maintenance needs than cars and smaller vehicles
•RIF updated regularly based on road conditions,costs of current needed
road maintenance,traffic data,and new calculation methodologies
•MSS’s rate revenues currently include payment of the now outdated
$443,600 RIF,which was calculated in 2012 and is overdue for an update
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Refuse Impact Fee
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
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Pavement Life Cycle –Source: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Refuse Impact Fee
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
•R3 and staff completed a study updating the RIF in 2020 which yielded a
new annual RIF value of $1,480,600
•The proposed RIF is increasing primarily due to the large amount of
unfunded street maintenance backlog,which prior studies did not address
•Staff and R3 recommend incremental adjustments (1/3 of the change in
value per year)to the RIF to smooth out resulting adjustments to rates
•Increasing the RIF by $345,667 per year adds 1.55%to the rate increase in
2021,and 1.33%or less in 2022 and 2023
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Summary & Public Hearing
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
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Summary & Public Hearing
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
2021 Base Increase 3.64%
2021 Illegal Dumping Pilot Funding 0.30%
Refuse Impact Fee 1.55%
Total Rate Increase 5.49%
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Summary & Public Hearing
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
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2021 Marin County Comparison Residential
Summary & Public Hearing
Marin Sanitary Service Rate Review
January 19, 2021
City Council Options
1. (Staff Recommendation) Adopt a resolution amending the Master Fee Schedule setting the Refuse Impact Fee at
$789,267 effective retroactively to January 1, 2021, and at $1,134,933 effective January 1, 2022, and at $1,480,600
effective January 1, 2023, and
Adopt a resolution establishing maximum rates collected by Marin Sanitary Service for Refuse and Recyclable Material
Collection and Disposal Services, to be effective retroactively to January 1, 2021 with the addition of an Illegal Dumping
Pilot Program for a total increase of 5.49% over 2020 rates.
2. Adopt a resolution amending the Master Fee Schedule setting the Refuse Impact Fee at $1,480,600, and
Adopt a resolution establishing maximum rates collected by Marin Sanitary Service for Refuse and Recyclable Material
Collection and Disposal Services, to be effective retroactively to January 1, 2021 with the addition of an Illegal Dumping
Pilot Program for a total increase of 8.61% over 2020 rates.
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