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IV. SUMMARY FORMS This section of the workbook provides a brief d'escription of the summary forms and how the c'tty can use these forms to identify the cost of each solid waste program and develop the appropriate customer charges and tipping fees. A. Program Cost Summary (Form A) The Program Cost Summary Form will allow the city to determine the cost of each solid waste program offered by the city. The beginning point for most cities will be Column A, where they will enter the municipality's solid waste budget. Columns B-F will be used to determine the cost associated with each of the city's solid waste programs. The specific program costs can be determined either from the citys own financial records or by using Forms 1-11. Those cities that provide solid waste services, but do not have a formal solid waste budget, can use Forms 1-11 to determine the cost of each solid waste program. The city can then total the program costs to arrive at the city's solid Waste budget. This situation may occur when a municipality's solid waste se►vices are included in the general fund and the solid waste expendftures are not summarized in a solid waste budget. Finally, this workbook is being made available to cities in an attempt to help them ident'rfy all of their solid waste costs. If during the completion of the worldbook a city discovers that their solid waste budget does not reflect all of the solid waste costs actually incurred by the city, the workbook can be used to assist in revising the ciry's solid waste budget to reflect the full cost of providing these services. B. Rate Calculation Summary (Form B) The Rate Calculation Summary Form will be used to determine the appropriate customer charges and tipping fees that will allow the city to recover the cost of providing solid waste services to fts customers. Lines 1-3 will be used to calculate rates for each solid waste program offered by the c'rty, provided that program has only one class of customers. If the city has more than one customer class for a particular solid waste program, then lines 4-6 will be used to calculate the rates. Proqram Rates (lines 1-3) If the city has only one customer class and a standard billing unit for all customers of a particular solid waste program, then lines 1-3 of Form B can be used to calculate the appropriate rate. The program cost data compiled in the Program Cost Summary (Form A, line 22) will be divided by the appropriate number of billing units to arrive at the cost per household or container. Customer Class Rates (lines 4-6) If the city prov'tdes a solid waste program which has more than one customer class, then the rates must be determined using lines 4-6 of Form B. An example of such a service would be 'rf the city offered residential collection service (using standard 30, 60 and 90 gallon containers) and commercial collection service (using 4, 8 and 12 cubic yard containers). In this case the city wlll use the program cost data compiled In the Customer Class Cost Summary (Form C, line 22) and divided by the appropriate billing units to arrive at the rates for residential and commercial customers. w 000203