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Potential Long Term Transportation Savings• <br />Transportation savings are estimated at $ 46,319. <br />Impacts to Operations: <br />• Required Everv Saturday Work by Staff versus Current Alternate Weekends• <br />- Center Operators would be required to work every Saturday however they would be off two consecutive <br />week days, Wednesday and Thursday, as well as every Sunday. This is in comparison to the present <br />alternate weekends (Saturday and Sunday) work and being off primarily either one or two non-consecutive <br />days. <br />- Employee morale may decrease temporarily due to the shift to working every Saturday versus the present <br />alternate weekends. However, no Sanitation employees are anticipated to work on Sundays. <br />- The difficulty to maintain a temporary work staff to facilitate vacation and/or medical leave would increase <br />since non-permanent (temporary) hours would be sporadic and significantly reduced. <br />Increased volumes during operational hours• <br />With any schedule change, user volumes <br />managing higher user volumes on the days <br />consistently. <br /> <br />Re-education of Users: <br />shift to other available times. Centers will be confronted with <br />they are open. Some Centers already experience high volumes <br />Since the transition to staffed solid waste convenience centers in 1993, only two revisions in operational <br />hours have occurred. The first being the increase of Saturday and Sunday hours by two (2) hours; closing at 5 <br />pm versus 3 pm. The most recent revision was September 2008 with the elimination of the lunch time closure <br />(12 noon to 1 pm). Both of these revisions resulted in improvement of services. The changing of multiple <br />days of operation would have a significant impact in regards to re-education. A minimum of $11,700 would <br />be recommended for re-education, including but not limited to newspaper advertisements, mailings, banners <br />and new operational hour signs. This would be a one time cost. <br /> <br />Ille ag 1 dumping <br />The risk of illegal dumping increases (usually temporarily) whenever hours are revised. <br />Impacts to Thursday and Sunday Users: <br />• Adaptation to new operational hours and the closure of the Bradshaw Qu Center <br />- On the average, 2,506 combined total users utilize the centers on Thursdays and Sundays. <br />- These 2,506 Thursday and Sunday users would have four (4) other days (Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and <br />Saturday), or a total of 43 hours to alternatively dispose of their waste. <br />2 <br />