Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to establish an encumbrance within the Special Income Tax Fund to pay 2013 waste disposal tipping fees for the Division of Refuse Collection. This expense is necessary to safely and contractually dispose of the waste collected by the division in the course of pursuing its mission by providing residential refuse collection services to over 327,000 households weekly and picking up bulk items and illegally dumped items as needed.
The Department of Public Service has determined that $17,474,000.00 should be adequate for this purpose. This number is based on estimated waste stream of 300,000 tons in 2013. Actual tonnage is ultimately dependent on variables such as the weather, the actual number of households collected that cannot be specifically calculated at this time, and the unknown amount of bulk and illegally dumped items. If necessary, additional legislation will be submitted to increase this at a later date.
Previous calendar years' actual tipping fee expenditures totaled $12,943,226.58 (2007), $12,901,357.53 (2008), $13,049,098.46 (2009), $13,312,244.86 (2010), $14,522,167.56 (2011), and $16,543,036.71 (2012). SWACO tipping fee rates are determined by SWACO's established rate setting process and other waste disposal fees were determined by the City's competitive bidding process.
Three-year contracts were established with JDM Services, LLC to provide construction and demolition material disposal services and Liberty Tire Services of Ohio, LLC to provide tire disposal service. Both contracts expire February 28, 2014.
Also, pursuant to the tenth (10th) modification to the Agreement between the City and SWACO, part of the tipping fees will help fund the expansion of the drop-off recycling program.
2. BID WAIVER
Formal competitive bidding requirements must be waived for SWACO because waste disposal services, other than those provided by SWACO, are available in ...
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