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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-38 - Recycling Service FeeRESOLUTION NO. 2005- 38 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH MODIFYING A RECYCLING SERVICE FEE AND RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 2004 -55. WHEREAS, the State of California has determined that the amount of solid waste generated in the State, coupled with the diminishing landfill space and the potential adverse environmental impacts of landfilling, create an urgent need for State and local agencies to enact and implement aggressive new integrated waste management programs; and WHEREAS, the Legislature has mandated each City and County to reduce the amount of solid waste disposed of in landfills by recycling at least 50% of the solid waste stream by the end of 2000; and WHEREAS, the Newport Beach City Council has enacted an ordinance which authorizes the imposition of a recycling service fee subject to certain limitations; and WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach has entered into a written contract with CRT Inc. pursuant to which the latter will accept the City's waste stream, recycle at least 25% of the contents, and transport the remaining waste to a disposal site approved by law. The City Council has determined that contracting with a private recycler represents the most economical way of satisfying recycling requirements, will ensure that more waste is recycled than pursuant to curbside programs which require resident's sorting of recyclables, and is much less costly than acquiring the equipment and hiring the personnel necessary to implement a curbside recycling program; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that approximately 42,000 tons of solid waste will be generated during Fiscal Year 2005 -06, that the cost of collecting, hauling, recycling, and disposing of that amount of solid waste would be $5,778,079, that the fees to be paid to CRT Inc. pursuant to the Recycling Agreement will be $1,777,440 and that the additional cost attributable solely to recycling is $877,328; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the residential solid waste stream collected by City personnel is generated by, at most, 27,700 households. Accordingly, the additional costs incurred by the City in conjunction with the recycling program can be recovered by imposing a recycling service fee of $2.93 per month on persons receiving trash services from the City. This fee represents the minimum amount the City could charge to recover the estimated reasonable cost to provide recycling services for the City. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of City of Newport Beach resolves as follows: 1. Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 2.30 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code, a recycling service fee of $2.93 per month is hereby imposed, effective July 1, 2005. 2. The recycling service fee shall be the obligation of the person or persons responsible for the payment of water service if water is supplied to the property by the City of Newport Beach and, if water is not supplied by the City of Newport Beach, the fee shall be the responsibility of the owner of the property; and 3. The recycling service fee shall not be paid by persons or businesses whose rubbish is collected by private haulers nor shall any portion of the fee collected be used to defray expenses that would be incurred by the City in collecting, hauling, and disposing of solid waste. 4. Resolution No. 2004 -55 is hereby rescinded. ADOPTED this 28" day of June, 2005. AYES, COUNCIL MEMBERS selich, Rosansky, Webb Ridgeway, Mayor Heffernan NOES, COUNCIL MEMBERS Daigle ABSENT, COUNCIL MEMBERS Nichols ATT 11 CITY CLERK rE=7 " i STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH } I, LaVonne M. Harkless, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 2005 -38 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 28th day of June 2005, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: Selich, Rosansky, Webb, Ridgeway, Mayor Heffernan Noes: Daigle Absent: Nichols Abstain: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 29th day of June 2005. (Seal) m City Clerk Newport Beach, California