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Council Meeting: July 9, 1991 Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: city staff
SUBJECT: Recommendation to Adopt Resolution Relating to
Frequency of Refuse and Recycling Service and
Collection
INTRODUCTION
This report requests City Council adopt the attached resolution
relating to frequency of Refuse and Recycling Service and
Collection. In order to comply with the impending mandates of
AB939, the resolution increases recycling service for all curbside
recycling program participants from once every other week to once
a week. To further meet AB939 source reduction requirements, the
resolution modifies the regular trash collection schedule for those
residential customers with individual refuse container service,
from twice a week to once a week.
DISCUSSION
In May 1989, the City council approved the conversion of refuse
collection in single family areas to an automated system. Over the
past two years, as City staff evaluated various automated
collection systems it became clear that a semi-automated rather
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than a fully automated system would work best for Santa Monica.
The difference between a fully automated and a semi-automated truck
design is that, with a semi-automated vehicle, the trash container
is emptied from the rear of the truck rather than from the side.
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This requires that the containers be rolled to the back of the
truck by the sanitation collectors in order to be emptied, but it
also means that problems with parked vehicles preventing direct
access to the containers in parkway are minimized.
Implementation of semi-automated collection for all single family
and some multi-family customers is scheduled to begin on July 22nd,
1991. This change to semi-automated collection is proposed to be
concurrent with an increase in recycling collection to once per
week. Therefore recycling and regular trash collection will occur
once per week (all on the same day of the week). Curbside
recycling collection currently occurs once every other week and
regular trash collection in single family zones currently occurs
twice per week.
The proposed change in collection frequency for recyclables and
regular trash will allow the City to meet important environmental
goals related to integrated solid waste management. Specifically,
the change in recycling collection frequency enables the City to
increase curbside recycling service by 100%, and the change to once
per week semi-automated trash collection lays the ground work for
future source reduction efforts. Each of these goals will be an
important component of the City'S AB939 Source Reduction and
Recycling Element.
In November 1989, the City adopted an ordinance dealing with Refuse
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Service and Collection. This ordinance sets forth that the
Director of General Services is authorized to establish refuse
collection routes and to collect refuse on such days of the week
and at such hours of the day as deemed necessary. The ordinance
states, however, that any change in the frequency of collection
must be changed by resolution of the City council.
In order to expand and enhance the city's solid waste source
reduction and recycling efforts, staff is recommending that the
frequency of curbside recycling collection be increased 100% to
once per week from the current once every other week. It is also
recolnIl'lended that regular trash collection for residential customers
who currently have individual container service (mostly single-
family households) be changed to once a week from the current twice
a week. This change in collection frequency will allow the City to
provide semi-automated trash collection to all of these residential
customers while at the same time expanding the frequency of their
curbside recycling collection. These changes in collection
frequency will keep Santa Monica in the forefront of innovative
solid waste reduction policies.
These schedule changes are proposed for implementation beginning
July 22, 1991. The Solid Waste Division has notified all affected
customers about these proposed schedule changes through various
direct outreach and public education efforts. The distribution of
the new semi-automated cOllection containers to customers will be
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completed by July 22, 1991.
BUDGET/FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal or budget impact associated with the adoption
of this resolution since the Adopted FY1991-92 Budget already
reflects all anticipated fiscal impacts from these schedule
changes.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the city Council:
1. Adopt the attached resolution modifying the frequency of
service for refuse and recycling collection.
Attachments: Exhibit A - Collection Frequency Resolution
prepared by: Stan Scholl, Director of General Services
Tom Dever; Solid Waste Management Supervisor
Joan L. Akins, Sr. Administrative Analyst
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RESOLUTION NUMBER 8256(CCS}
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ESTABLISHING A REFUSE
AND RECYCLING SERVICE COLLECTION SCHEDULE
FOR SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICTS
WHEREAS, the City council of the City of Santa Moncia
has enacted an ordinance enabling the Director of General Services
to establish refuse service and collection routes on such days of
the week and at such hours of the day as deemed necessary to serve
the best interests of the cityj and
WHEREAS, the city has determined that in order to meet
solid waste source reduction and diversion as mandated by the State
a new refuse and recycling program must be developed; and
WHEREAS, the city has developed a progresslve refuse
and recycling management program for single family dlstrlcts Which
includes the implementation of semi-automated collectionj and
WHEREAS, the revision of the current schedule for
regular refuse collection from twice a week to once a week and for
recycling collection from once every other week to once a week
service will enhance the so11d waste source reduction and diversion
goals for the City,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. City collection of regular refuse and City
collection of recyclables in single fam1ly districts shall occur
once a week.
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SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the
adoption of this Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the
same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT MYERS
city kttorney
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Adopted and approved this 9th day of July, 1991.
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fV Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 8256(CCS)
was duly adopted by the City Council of the city of Santa Monica
at a meeting thereof held on July 9th, 1991 by the following
council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Genser, Holbrook, Katz, Olsen,
Vazquez, Zane, Abdo
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: None
ATTEST:
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