customers, visitors and residents would be on the associated roadways. Commercial customers would be required to pay $15.00 per item (maximum two items per collection), place their items curbside after 9:00pm and abide by all other preparation requirements currently set out in the program. Since there are far fewer commercial establishments than residential ones, it is anticipated that current resources within the Environmental Department are sufficient to service, with a net zero impact to the current operating budget. Administration further recommends that this expansion, if approved, include only commercial properties and not Institutional or Industrial properties. Many industrial and institutional properties are well secured and experience little illegal dumping.

Multi-residential Bulk Collection

It has been suggested that bulk collection be expanded to include multi-residential buildings, with the 2 item limit being applied to the building as a whole, and not to each unit. Therefore each multi-residential building could be entitled to pay the associated fee and place a maximum of 2 items per collection day.

Administration foresees many issues with this approach:

• 1. Service Requests are entered using property address. For multiple units in a building with a single property address, there is no simple way for 311 to determine if or when the 2 item limit has been reached for a particular collection day at the time of the call.
• 2. This approach could lead to frustration among residents if they are not able to get timely collection due to another unit using the item limit.
• 3. A collection point for each multi-residential building would need to be determined. A safe, unobstructed location for placing the item may be challenging. Despite this, current resources are insufficient to visit every property and determine an appropriate location. Simply placing items in the same location as regular garbage is collected would not be a solution as many of these locations are extremely limited in space.
• 4. Illegal dumping is likely to increase. If not all residents in the building are aware of the requirements of the program, and items are legitimately placed out for collections, uninformed residents may simply think it is a free service and place additional items out.

For all these reasons Administration recommends the program not be expanded to include multi-residential buildings. Residents in these dwellings continue to have the option to bring the items to the public drop off, donate them, sell them or make arrangements with the building owner/association.

Collection at Council Direction

Council also requested Administration to examine the option of availing any unused collection stops to Council members for the purpose of dealing with illegal dumping in their respective wards. As previously reported, there is a limit of 85 collection stops per collection day. This limit has been established to ensure the contractor has sufficient time to collect scheduled stops on the specified collection day.