Client |
The City currently provides residential and commercial waste collection services for approximately 12,900 and 500 customers, respectively. Residential curbside collection of municipal solid waste is provided using automated and semi-automated collection trucks and individual 96 gallon wheeled containers. The report details analysis, findings and recommendations concerning operations and refuse collection rates by the City of Dunedin. A rate model was developed, which enabled our team to make projections of financial performance of refuse collection for the upcoming planning period (2005-2015) and model various user rate structures to help plan for future solid waste fleet replacements. The study included an operations assessment of the pilot recycling program, cost saving opportunities, and revenue enhancement opportunities.
At the outset of the work effort, SCS developed a Microsoft Excel™ spreadsheet-based, rate model to assist in the evaluation of several feasible residential rate structures.
The model includes the following facets:
- An analysis of operational funds (personnel, services and supplies, landfill disposal charges, internal service charges)
- Analysis of fleet replacement and financing program (vehicle replacement by year)
- Funds analysis (reserve requirements, transfers to general fund, beginning and ending fund balances)
- Revenue sufficiency analysis (annual revenue projections and rate plan to provide sufficient revenues)
RECOGNITION AND AWARDS
As a result of the efforts on this project, SCS was awarded Solid Waste Consultant of the Year, 2006 by the Florida West Coast Branch of the American Public Works Association. Further, an article on the project was co-published, “Developing a Road Map of Your Cost of Solid Waste Services” with Mr. Donald Ross, Sanitation Director, City of Dunedin in the March issue of Public Works. |
