Wait, do we have a printout or something?

No, dear.

I thought I saw something in the sound.

Are we ready?

We get a printout of something.

We're working on it.

Okay.

Would you like us to proceed to begin?

Yes, we're going to do that.

Thank you, sir.

My apologies.

That's my fault.

I thought I had the whole thing printed out in the last couple of slides, did not print for whatever reason.

So we're trying to remedy that.

All right, we'd like to call this meeting to order.

Got a roll call.

Mr.

Marciano.

Here.

Ms.

Dreyer.

Here.

Mr.

Hilton.

Here.

It's demands filled here.

Here.

Public notice.

The January 13th City Council Works session was publicly noticed on January 9th, 2026 on the City of O'Call's website.

Our topic of discussion today is the sanitation rate study.

Presentation by Darren Parks.

Good afternoon, Darren Park, Public Works Director.

If you recall, we met in November 12th of last year to discuss our rate study recommendations from our consultant, RAF Tellus.

Council gave staff a directive to consider what that rate increase would look like if we did away with the curb size single stream recycling and to figure out the Trinity Villa situation, how and if we can bring them up to the current rate that we would be providing to every other multifamily complex.

And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Ralph Tellis, our consultant, Terry Bovy, to go over the presentation.

Please feel free to ask any questions as we go through it.

We'll go slow.

And if we go too fast, let us know and we'll go over thoroughly with you.

Thank you, Darren.

Uh for the record, uh, my name is Terry Bovary with Reptalis.

And um here with me today, thank you, is um uh our lead analyst on the project, Maurizio uh Honorado.

And um we have um a short presentation.

What we had hoped to do for everyone today, because it had been some time since we originally presented the rate study, was to provide you a uh uh a a quick recap of what was presented before the direction that we got back from you know you all commission about uh how you would like us to see some uh changes and some reevaluations.

There were three specific things.

We're gonna go over each one of those, delaying the rate implementation to March.

You know, we evaluated what the effects were to that, and you know, short answer is not much, um, but we'll we'll present that.

Uh Trinity Villas, we had a different rate for them historically, and so we were asked to look at what if we were to bring them to the multifamily rate.

And then lastly, what would the rate increases look like if we were to eliminate the curbside collection program and that contract?

So we spent some time evaluating that.

I think where there was some discussion at the last council meeting back in uh mid-November.

And then finally from there, we're gonna be looking back to you all to get a little seeking more direction about how you'd like us to move forward uh related to the rate study recommendations.

Um quick recap.

This is uh a slide from that presentation back in mid-November that gave you a forecast of the the bars representing each year of the forecast of the expenditure requirements, revenue requirements of the solid waste system.

You can see mostly it's operating in maintenance costs.

We have a transfer to the general fund for overhead and in in direct cost allocations, and then we have uh the yellow bar representing capital.

We have some other things that we fund like some deposits or reserves to maintain minimum working capital, things like that, but generally the the expenditures of the solid waste system are uh predominantly the operating costs, some capital, some overhead costs, and this gives you an overview.

Because we were um the green line representing our revenues today, you can see that we basically didn't have enough money in that first year in 25.

Then it was a forecast, now it's historical, but uh we didn't have enough money to fund the capital needs of the system.

We only had enough to fully fund our operations, and we explained that that was due to a variety of different things, mainly inflation to the operation.

And I think one of the points that I made during the last presentation in November is that most folks don't realize that inflation to solid waste operations has exceeded inflation to the typical consumer.