HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-39 - Recycling Service Fee• RESOLUTION NO. 2000- 39
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NEWPORT BEACH MODIFYING A RECYCLING SERVICE FEE
AND RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 99 -39.
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 40,500 tons of solid waste
will be generated during Fiscal Year 2000 -01, that the cost of collecting, hauling, recycling, and
disposing of that amount of solid waste would be $4,441,437, that the fees to be paid to CRT Inc.
pursuant to the Recycling Agreement will be $1,543,050 and that the additional cost attributable
solely to recycling is $742,864; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the residential solid waste stream
collected by City personnel is generated by, at most, 27,330 households. Accordingly, the additional
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costs incurred by the City in conjunction with the recycling program can be recovered by imposing a
recycling service fee of $2.26 per month or 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.
WHEREAS, the new recycling coordinator position is necessary to achieve the State
recycling mandate by managing all aspects of the City's recycling program.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of City of Newport Beach resolves as follows:
Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 2.30 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code, a
recycling service fee of $2.26 per month is hereby imposed, effective July 1, 2000.
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. 99 -39 is hereby rescinded.
ADOPTED this 23`d day of May, 2000.
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
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. 2000 -39 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
23rd day of May, 2000, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Thomson, Adams, Ridgeway, O'Neil, Mayor Noyes
Noes: None
Absent: Glover, Debay
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
• official seal of said City this 24th day of May, 2000.
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California