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FUNDING OPTION 3 • Structure more closely matches differing service eligibility • Fees more closely match true cost allocation of eligible services 10 Key Factors • No expansion of rural curbside recycling is assumed with this option. If the rural roadside service area was expanded at some point in the future, those properties added to the curbside program would be moved from the Rural Solid Waste Program Fee (i.e., outside of current rural roadside service area) to the Rural Solid Waste Program Fee (i.e., located within current roadside service area). • This option is the most challenging to administer, manage, and explain. It is the most complicated fee structure and includes six fee categories. • This option is inflexible. Within the six fee categories, solid waste staff does not have operational flexibility in providing services without being constrained by rigid categories. o Example: If a business is located on a residential route (urban or rural) and generates recyclables in quantities similar to a residence, there is no appropriate fee category in which to place them. • Staff has identified at least four possible additional service situations that do not fit appropriately into one of the six currently suggested fee categories for Option 3. Due to the flexibility provided by the old (i.e., tiered) fee structure, all these additional service situations would have been charged a 3 -R Basic fee under the old fee structure in addition to a combination of other recycling or convenience center fees as described below. 1. Multi - Family SW Program Fee 2 - $110: This fee would include apartment complexes and mobile home parks in the urban area that are classified as multi - family, but each unit has its own urban roll cart for recycling. Under the old fee system, each unit would be charged an urban recycling fee and a multi - family convenience center fee as their garbage is collected in dumpsters. This fee combination would not exist under the currently proposed Option 3, requiring this type of property to be allocated to either the multifamily or municipal solid waste program fee category. There are approximately 830 parcels charged in this manner under the old fee structure. 2. Multi - Family SW Program Fee 3 - $86: This fee would apply to a mobile home park in the urban area that has recycling service collected as a multifamily property in corrals. Under the old fee structure, each unit would be charged a multi - family recycling fee. However, each unit does have an individual garbage cart and would be charged as a single - family residential unit for convenience center services. This fee combination does not exist under the currently proposed Option 3, requiring this type of property to be allocated to either the multifamily or municipal