Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Resolution Establishing Integrated Waste Collection Ceiling Rates and Service Fees for Alameda County Industries, Inc. for Rate Period 19 (July 2020 to June 2021). (Public Works 0274)
All right. And I see. Or I saw a car. There you are. Hello. Hello. Good evening. I'm here in memory of this evening. I am with the Court of Public Works Coordinator. To be very brief of items. Counsel to hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution to set integrated waste rates for the coming fiscal year or related period. These actions are part of the planning process, as set forth in the city's franchise agreement with Alameda County Industries, or FBI and the Alameda Municipal Code. We're joined tonight here by Margaret. She and I see her there on the screen in a brief one point presentation and explained the writing process and the results of this rate application. Following that, Marva, myself and Kenny and Chris obviously with HPI will be available for any questions that you may have. Great. Well, then very succinct. Okay. And we love a short presentations. Okay. Mishan, is this you? Is a can you hear me? I can indeed. Yes. Okay. Well, thank you, Liz. And good evening, Mayor and council again, Margaret Sheehan with HFT consultants. And I've been working with the city for the last six years on a rate setting. You have all the details, reports. Liz just briefly went through it. I will briefly talk about the process. This is an index based here. So it should have been and should be fairly simple, which it was. We had a few areas that we had to address and that was that we had to use the balancing account and rate stabilization fund last year to help mitigate the rate. And so we had to address that. And then also we looked at revenue projections for year 19, 1920 and it's kind of look at the chart here. Back at that, you can kind of see the tail end of the last recession, the blue line, which was the rate increase, but the line below was the revenue that was generated and it was upside down. Basically, we fixed that in 2013. Life was good, but if you notice, 2019, the blue line is once again went above the red line and that's the result of the COVID 19 and what's happened with the commercial businesses within the city. So that's something that we're going to need to be looking at. So as a result of changing those projections, we don't know what the future's going to be, but be something that would be addressed next year. Staff is recommending that we use the balancing account and the rate stabilization fund again so that we end up with the 5% increase for rates effective July 1st, 2020. And if you look at the chart, it's a dollar 66 for the 20 gallon and 32 gallon rates. We give those because that's what most of the residents in the city have. And for the 20 gallon, that's about $20 a year. And for the 32 gallons, it's about $25 a year. So again, we're looking for the sailing rates for the city and I'm here for any questions. Thank you both. Nice presentations. I am certainly thankful that we had that, um, balancing account balance. When we did these last two fiscal years. So council and madam quick, do we have any public figures on this item? We do not have any public comment. Okay. Um. Counsel. Questions. Comments. Motion. Councilor, everybody. Thinks by the mayor. I think it is tough for this short presentation. And I do want to remind folks that our city manager, I think one of his first things, he was faced with this and his very creative solution, and he helped keep rates down last year. So kudos to him for that. And I'm of approval of that item. Thank you. I'd second. Vice mayor. Not quite so. Okay. And did you want to also say something? No. And he also revealed. I saw your hand go up. Just a second. Okay. Any discussion? CNN. May we have a roll call vote, please? Councilmember de SAG. I not. Quite. With appreciation to staff. I0di vella I may. Or as the Ashcraft. I and also nice work staff and I also appreciate our partners at HCI. So thank you very much. This has been a challenging time for businesses and as fewer are open, they are just not using the service. And so I think this is a really masterful way of handling it. So thank you so much and good night. We are moving on to the next and good to see you. Bye bye. Okay, so we are moving on to item six E Madam Quick. I'm giving away on mute. Sorry. Recommendation to provide an update on two step procurement process for Almeida's integrated waste franchise. Authorize the city manager to execute an amendment to the franchise agreement between the City of Alameda and Alameda County Industries, providing to the city a maximum 18 month extension as needed, and authorize the city manager to execute