Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. The CONTRACTOR shall prepare and submit to the McHenry County Solid Waste Manager, reports detailing refuse/solid waste disposal, recycling and landscape waste collection activities for each month, including without limitation, recycling participation rate, the amount of refuse/solid waste, recyclables, or landscape waste collected. Reports shall be submitted quarterly no later than thirty (30) days following the end of the quarter. 2. The starting time for pick‐up service described herein shall not commence earlier that 7:00 a.m. and end no later than 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Noncollection, due to the agreed upon holidays or acts of God, shall be the following day. 3. Holidays to be observed by the CONTRACTOR are as follows: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. No collection services will be rendered on such holidays. When a holiday occurs, the schedule for the remainder of the affected week will shift back one day and may require pick up service on a Saturday. 4. CONTRACTOR, at its expense, shall be required to develop, print, and distribute, to all residential customers and all new customers, a brochure establishing regular service throughout the CONTRACT period, a brochure approved by the McHenry County Solid Waste Manager, explaining the refuse/solid waste and recycling programs covered under this Request for Proposals. The brochure shall be updated and distributed yearly to each residence or whenever there is a change in the service or programs provided.
