Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to establish an encumbrance within the Special Income Tax Fund to pay 2014 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 $16,752,000.00 should be adequate for this purpose. This number is based on estimated waste stream of 300,000 tons in 2014. 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), $16,543,036.71 (2012), and $15,873,121.00 (2013). 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.
2. BID WAIVER
Formal competitive bidding requirements must be waived for SWACO, Waste disposal services, other than those provided by SWACO are available in the marketplace; however, the City is bound by contract to tip household waste at SWACO facilities.
3. FISCAL IMPACT
This 2014 expense is budgeted within the Special Income Tax Fund, and it is contingent upon the passage of Ordinance 2732-2013.
4. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to avoid delays of payment to SWACO that could result in the City incurring interest penalties as specifie...
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