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HomeMy WebLinkAboutJ-1 - Orange County Cities Hazardous Waster CommitteeCITY OF NEWPORT BEACH OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER August 12, 1985 TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: Executive Assistant SUBJECT: ORANGE COUNTY CITIES HAZARDOUS WASTE COMMITTEE Council Agenda Item No. J-1 BY THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH AUG 121985 (/4 j ACTION: If desired, approve attached Memorandum of Agreement, authorize Mayor and City Clerk to execute the Agreement, and appoint Council Member to represent the City on the Committee. BACKGROUND: By action of July 8, 1985, the City Council agreed in concept to joining other cities in the county in selecting and funding a representative to the Board of the Hazardous Materials Joint Power Authority. This Board consists of representatives from eight counties, the League of Cities in each of the eight counties, a representative from the City of Los Angeles and the City of San Diego, and a representative from Orange County cities;. Eleven Orange County cities have tentatively agreed to support an additional representative on the Board. These cities are: Brea, Garden Grove, San Juan Capistrano, Orange, Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Fountain Valley, Irvine, Fullerton and Newport Beach. In effect, by participating in this Committee, the City of Newport Beach will have one -eleventh of one nineteenth of a vote on the regional authority. The eleven cities would share the $10,000 annual cost which computes to $909.10 for the City of Newport Beach. This amount is included as a budget amendment in another portion of this agenda. TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL - Page 2 The primary purpose of the regional board is to support the establishment of hazardous waste treat- ment facilities. Explanatory correspondence and the Memorandum of Agreement are attached. KJD:ets Attachments KENNETH DELINO August 9, 1985 Mayor/City Council City of Newport Beach 3300 Newport Blvd. Newport Beach, California Dear Mayor/City Council: THE H( SABLE CITY COUNCIL DON R. ROTH, Mayor E. LLEWELLYN OVERHOLT, JR., Mayor Pro Tem MIRIAM KAYWOOD, Councilwoman BEN BAY, Councilman IRV PICKLER, Councilman CITY OF ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA 92803 G CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. 8 AUG 141985 f ECEIVED 92662 L CITY i'�.. ak \ COUNCIL ACENDA NO._ - � Cc) BY THE My %u—UI4CII, CITY OF NEWPORT BEACh AUG 2 6 198.5 2 L 4." /c'c j This is to inform you of the results of the meeting on August 8, 1985 concerning the Hazardous Waste Management JPA. Councilwoman Ruth Finley distributed the enclosed memo concerning the results of attending the Southern California Hazardous Waste Management Authority meeting on July 25, 1985. The city representatives attending decided to continue the effort of being recognized by the Hazardous Waste Management Authority. The representatives elected me as the chairman for 1985 and decided to establish a committee which consists of Brea Councilwoman Norma Hicks, San Juan Capistrano Councilman Phil Schwartze, Huntington Beach City Manager Charles Thompson, Orange City Manager Bill Little and myself. This committee will discuss the alternatives available to us in receiving recognition from the Hazardous Waste Management Authority. We also intend to prepare the rationale and reasons for allowing our consortium to be a part of the Hazardous Waste Management Authority. Once we have developed our strategy, we will report back to the city representatives and receive the approval of that body before requesting Supervisor Wieder to add our request to the agenda of the Hazardous Waste Management Authority. If you have any questions concerning this matter please feel free to contact me at 999-5166. R s e ly, Iry Pi r Councilman cc:City of Newport Beach, City Manager City Manager/City Council 7 200 South Anaheim Boulevard, P. O. Box 3222, (714) 999-5166 CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH [��Lj INTER -DEPARTMENT COMMUNIC TION HuNnKCMN awc„ -, To Charles W. Thompson, From ichard Barnard, City Administrator Assistant to City Administrator Subject SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAZARDOUS Date July 29, 1985 WASTE 'MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY MEETING Ruth Finley and I attended the Southern California Hazardous Waste Management Authority meeting that was held on July 25, 1985, at the Southern California Association of Government's office in Los Angeles. At the meeting, Orange County Supervisor, Harriett Wieder, brought up the topic of expanding the Southern California Hazardous Waste Joint Powers Authority (JPA) to include one additional representative from Orange County. She indicated that eleven Orange County cities had expressed an interest in coming together to select a representative to the Southern California Hazardous Waste JPA because of the importance of the hazardous waste issue. Supervisor Wieder introduced Huntington Beach Councilwoman, Ruth Finley, who was presented as the interim representative for the eleven Orange County cities. The points made by Supervisor Wieder, were first Orange County has the second largest population base of the member JPA, with Los Angeles County having the largest, second that a substantial amount of hazardous waste is generated by Orange County, and third the issue of Hazardous Waste is very important to officials at the local level and the constituency they represent. For these reasons, Supervisor Wieder requests that other members of the JPA put aside their regional and parochial differences and allow the Orange County representative to be seated. Discussion was held between the members of the JPA and some concern was expressed by JPA members that the issue was coming to them as an off agenda item, and that sufficient time was not given for them to study and consider this request. For this reason a motion was made and passed to take Supervisor Wieder's request under submission and to agendize this item at the next JPA meeting scheduled for August 29, 1985. The JPA requested that a report be prepared that identifies the rationale and reasons pros -and -cons, for including one additional Orar1ge County representative. It is important to keep in mind that a unanimous vote is required by JPA members tc seat the Cr nrrn Count- City's representative Later in the meeting, Dave Morrell, representing the Environmental Protection Agency spoke, and while not directly referring to Supervisor Wieder's request, did state that the EPA believes that the process should be open to all those who have an interest and desire to get involved in the issue of hazardous waste. Mr. Morrell's comments were frank and to the point, which seemed to upset some of the newer members of the JPA (particular representatives of San Diego County) who were not familiar with Mr. Morrell. Mr. Morrell was mildly optimistic about the effectiveness of the JPA and stressed the importance of identification of actual site locations for the disposal of hazardous waste. I got the clear distinction that site location is of primary condern to the EPA. The next JPA meeting is scheduled 600 Commonwealth in Los Angeles._ be decided. RB:pal ac: City Council for August 29,. 1985, at i:30 p.m. in the SCAG offices located at At this meeting issues of an additional JPA representative will August 9, 1985 ff.— THE FI( IRABLE CITY COUNCIL I t i H 1, Mayor e!'vEt t_'(N UVERHOLT, JR., Mayor Pro Tern urIAI\•i K.\YVVOOD, Councilwoman N fsAY, ourn :Itn.,n kV PICKI_!-fi �..ounciiman t... i5. -SIJ IF. �. I� .1i;. Supervisor Harriett Wieder 6 Orange County Board of Supervisor 10 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, Ca 92701 Dear Harriett: 1 1_ I f�U G 1119$5 a;�' 4 Wwj This is to inform you of the results of the meeting of the representatives for the cities interested in forming a consortium and having their representative recognized by the Hazardous Waste Management Authority. Councilwoman Ruth Finley informed us of the results of attending the first JPA meeting of July 25, 1985. The representatives selected me as their chairman for 1985 to represent the consortium at the JPA. A committee was formed to determine the approach that should be taken to have the Hazardous Waste Management Authority recognize our consortium. The committee consists of Brea Councilwoman Norma Hicks, San Juan Capistrano Councilman Phil Schwartze, Huntington Beach City Manager Charles Thompson, Orange City Manager Bill Little and myself. Please do not include the issue of allowing the consortium to be part of the JPA on the agenda for the meeting of August 29, 1985. We appreciate your efforts and look forward to working with you to resolve this matter. R ec 1 Iry Pickler n Councilman � KCk�:E'G, f lay°�T TO: �cc: Brea City Counci1 ` �r Fountain Valley City Council `. :'`I'�Clixrfeii Fullerton City Council Garden Grove City Council [71 Huntington Beach City Council LAG.'11"SoOl V Dir. Irvine City Council C: u 8t Ei Dir. Newport Beach City Council V - pjjn,,;nq Dir. Orange City Council r3 ei=eE C; July 24, 1985 City of Huntington Beach P. O. BOX 190 • 2000 MAIN STREET Mr. Robert Wynn, City Manager City of Newport Beach 3300 Newport Boulevard Newport Beach, California 92662 Dear Bob: CALIFORNIA 92648 MAYOR Ruth S. Bailey MAYOR PRO TEMPORE Robert P. Mandic Jr. COUNCILMEMBERS Ruth Finley Peter Green Jack Kelly Don MacAllister John Thomas City Manager J City of Nev:; oft The minutes of our committee meeting of the consortium cities on hazardous waste management, held on July 18th in Santa Ana, are attached. We have also redrafted an agreement form to formally establish the arrangements by which we can name our representative to the J.P.A. and function as an active member of that authority. This assumes, of course, that the signatories to the J.P.A. will agree to seat a city repre- sentative from Orange County. As you will recall, one of the decisions at the July 18th meeting was to have city coun- cil designated representatives attend the Orange County League meeting prior to its regular meeting time on August 8th. At that time (5:30 PM), a permanent representative will be selected and such other business conducted to get the committee operating on some standard basis. As your interim chairman, I would like to suggest that each city be prepared to vote at such meeting for a permanent chairman, as well as a represent- ative to the J.P.A. and, if possible, to have obtained their city council's authority to sign the joint agreement. If there are modifications to make in the redraft agreement, such changes can be discussed at the August 8th meeting. If you have any questions, please call me or Charles Thompson, our City Administrator, and we will be happy to help in any way possible. Sincerely, Ruth E. Finley, Councilwo an Interim Chairman REF/CWT:pj Attachments 3 TELEPHONE (714) 536-5553 MINUTES HAZARDOUS WASTE COMMITTEE JULY 18, 1985 On July 18th at 11:45 ASM at the Saddleback Inn in Santa Ana, a general meeting was held of the interested cities who had responded to a letter inviting all cities to attend such meeting. Cities in attendance were: Fullerton, Orange, Fountain Valley, Irvine, Santa Ana, Garden Grove, San Juan Capistrano, Brea, Anaheim, Newport Beach, and Huntington Beach. Charles Thompson, City Administrator 'of Huntington Beach, gave an explanation of the background of the proposed joint powers agreement for hazardous waste management as developed by the Southern California Hazardous Waste Management Project covering the SCAG region. It was indicated that three major areas of consideration were before the general committee for decision. First, a preliminary organization should be developed to bring the committee together in order to conduct its business, and it was proposed that a temporary chairman could be named for the committee for this purpose. Secondly, it was necessary for the committee to develop a permanent organization with a permanent chair- man and to select a representative of the group to act as their representative on the JPA. Thirdly, the committee should decide the general parameters of their bylaws indicating the voting strength of each city and the arrangement for payment of the $10,000 required for initial membership. It was decided that Ruth Finley, Councilwoman from Huntington Beach, would be named the temporary chair and would also act as the interim representative to JPA to attend the initial meeting at the SCAG offices on Commonwealth Avenue in Los Angeles on July 25th. The next decision was that at the August League meeting, scheduled for August 8th, that each of the member cities should send their representatives prepared to select a permanent representative to the JPA. It was also decided that the committee would need staff support, and that this staff support would come from the city from which the representative to the JPA was named. It was also requested that additional information be provided as to' on-going funding and how each member should make its proportionate payments, as well as to whom such .payments should. be paid. The general mechanics for handling these administrative items could be covered in the bylaws. It was also requested that a checklist of information required for the July 25th meeting be prepared and forwarded to representative Ruth Finley. In a general discussion relative to the format for the organization of the committee, it was decided that the simplest form of organization required would be the best, and that a joint powers agreement for such purpose did not appear necessary. There was a general decision that each city on the committee would have one vote, and that the costs would be equally shared among the member cities. Another decision was made that new cities or additional cities would be allowed to join the committee by a majority vote of the existing cities. A draft agreement accomplishing the above decisions was requested to be prepared by Charles Thompson and submitted to the member cities prior to the August 8th meeting.