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Santa Monica
City Council Meeting: December 4, 2007
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To: Mayor and City Council
From: Craig Perkins, Director -Environmental and Public Works Management
Subject: Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Council to Recognize the Los
Angeles County Department of Public Health as the Local Enforcement
Agency.
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached resolution designating the
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health as the Local Enforcement Agency
(LEA) responsible for enforcing all laws and regulations relating to the management of
solid waste in the City of Santa Monica.
Executive Summary
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services has served as the LEA for the
City of Santa Monica since 1977. The Los Angeles County Department of Health
Services has formed the Department of Public Health as the LEA for solid waste
management. The Public Resources Code Section 43203(a) provides that the Los
Angeles Board of Supervisors may designate an LEA to carry out provisions of the
California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 with the approval of the majority
of the cities within the County that contain a majority of the population in the
incorporated areas of the County. The Board of Supervisors has designated the Los
Angeles Department of Public Health as the designated LEA to carry out the provisions
of the Act in the County of Los Angeles.
Discussion
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, acting as the LEA, will have
responsibility for enforcing all laws and regulations relating to the management of solid
waste.
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Reasons to designate the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health as the
City of Santa Monica's LEA are as follows:
1. The Department of Public Health has the technical expertise, training, and
experience required to meet the State regulations.
2. Any new designation of an existing LEA, or the City as the LEA, will require new
California Integrated Waste Management Board certifications and approvals.
3. Staff believes it is in the City's best short and long term interest to continue to
utilize the expertise and staff of the Department of Public Health of the County
of Los Angeles as its designated LEA to avoid incurring increased expenditures
and to avoid new certifications or approvals.
Previous Council Actions
Resolution No. 4895 (CCS), dated July 12, 1977, designated the Los Angeles County
Department of Health Services as the enforcement agency for the City of Santa Monica.
Financial Impacts & Budget Actions
The recommendation presented in this report has no budget action or financial impact.
Prepared by: Laura A. Cronin, Administrative Analyst-Solid Waste Management
Approved:
Forwarded to Council:
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Craig Perkins
Director -Environmental and Public
Works Management
Attachment: Resolution
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Reference
Resolution No.
10264 (CCS).