Explanation
The Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, has contracted with Rumpke Waste Collection & Recycling since 1994 to provide an optional subscription curbside recycling collection program to Columbus residents. The current contract for the subscription recycling collection with Rumpke of Ohio, Incorporated, commenced March 1, 2001, for a five-year period upon approval by Council. Rumpke was selected as the most responsive of three bidders to provide the curbside subscription recycling service when proposals were submitted to the Refuse Collection Division in August 2000. Although the residents are responsible for paying Rumpke directly for the cost of the recycling program, the Refuse Collection Division must still extend the effective dates of the contract. This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to modify and increase the existing weekly subscription curbside recycling collection with Rumpke of Ohio, Incorporated, for the period January 1, 2004, through February 28, 2006. There is no charge to the City for this service.
The current subscription recycling collection charge is $4.00 per month per household. This monthly fee has not increased since 1996, when it was $3.00 per month per household. The monthy fee is invoiced directly to those residents requesting the subscription curbside recycling service. Upon approval of this contract modification by Council, this rate will increase to $5.00 per month per household effective June 1, 2004.
As of December 2003, approximately 9,560 Columbus households subscribe to the weekly subscription curbside recycling program. The Public Service Department and Rumpke of Ohio, will work to maintain (and/or increase) the number of households at least at the current level of subscribers.
Rumpke's contract compliance number is 31-1617611, expiring February 14, 2005.
Fiscal Impact: No city dollars are expended for this contract. Columbus residents remit the monthly cost of this optional service directly to Rumpke.
Emergency action is requested to establish this contract in a timely manner to avoid possible service interruptions to residents.
Title
To authorize the Public Service Director to modify and extend the terms of a contract for the Refuse Collection Division with Rumpke of Ohio, Incorporated, for a subscription curbside recycling collection service to residents, and to declare an emergency. ($-0-)
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WHEREAS, there is a need for the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, to continue to provide a subscription curbside recycling collection service to residents; and
WHEREAS, the existing contract for subscription curbside recycling was authorized by Ordinance #0365-2001, passed by Council on February 22, 2001, and
WHEREAS, City Council's authorization for this contract will be extended for the period January 1, 2004, through February 28, 2006, and
WHEREAS, it is in the City's best interest to modify and extend the current subscription curbside recycling collection service, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Refuse Collection Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to modify and extend the subscription curbside recycling collection service contract with Rumpke of Ohio, Inc., in order to avoid interruptions to residents and pickup recyclable materials, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to modify and extend an existing contract with Rumpke of Ohio, Incorporated, for subscription curbside recycling collection service for the Refuse Collection Division for the period January 1, 2004, through February 28, 2006.
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.