PREPARED BY: KARINEH SAMKIAN DATE OF MEETING: 03/18/19
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UPDATE TO THE CITY COUNCIL ON RECYCLEMORE'S PROGRESS ON THE JOINT EXERCISE OF POWERS AGREEMENT AMENDMENT
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CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION
...RECOMMENDATION
Provide information and direct staff.
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COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS
The RecycleMore Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement is an adopted policy item under Major Policy Goal: Enhance Community Resilience - 203 Assess Environmental Impacts over the Long-term in the FY 2019-21 Council Priority Workplan, effective March 1, 2019.
CEQA Compliance Statement
This update is not a project and is for informational purpose only; therefore, it does not require CEQA clearance.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of RecycleMore and the JEPA
In 1991, the City of San Pablo along with the cities of El Cerrito, Hercules, Pinole and Richmond created the West Contra Costa Integrated Waste Management Authority, a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) more recently referred to as RecycleMore. The unincorporated West Contra Costa County area is also served by RecycleMore and represented by a Contra Costa County Supervisor, who serves as an ex-officio member (non-voting).
The original purpose of the JPA was to comply with new state diversion mandates as well as site an Integrated Resource Recovery Facility (IRRF). The member agencies developed the Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JEPA) that authorized the construction and operation of the IRRF, pledged waste stream control to RecycleMore, and tasked RecycleMore with certain municipal solid waste activities. These activities include: compliance with state diversion mandates; overseeing the post-collection processing of solid waste, recycling, and compost; and providing household hazardous waste disposal programs.
Reasons to Amend JEPA
From 1994 through 2013, RecycleMore was party to an IRRF Agreement that funded and built the IRRF. All member agencies paid the debt service on the bonds that funded the IRRF over a twenty-ye...
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