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FRQH: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE COt1tra
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SUBJECT: Recycling Issues �J�+tl tl�
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Request the Director of Community Development to prepare a
Letter to the Editor of the Contra Costa Times for the
signatures of Supervisors McPeak and Torlakson responding to
a letter which appeared in the Times on August 7, 1988 .
This letter should. identify the efforts the County has made
to date to encourage recycling and should congratulate those
cities and other agencies which have instituted recycling
programs.
2. Request the Director of Community Development to send a
letter to the Oakley Sanitary District urging the District
to undertake a recycling program and suggesting that they
may wish to join with the recycling programs being
undertaken in the surrounding areas. This letter should
also indicate the willingness of Supervisor Torlakson to
meet with the District' s Board of Trustees on this subject
at their convenience.
3 . Agree to allow County Counsel to await the report from the
Solid Waste Commission on the question of how best to
recycle oil at little or no cost to the general public
before issuing an opinion to our Committee on the ability of
the Board of Supervisors to compel service stations, and
similar outlets who deal with used oil, to accept used oil
from the public at no cost.
4. Leave the recycling issues on referral to our Committee.
BACKGROUND:
On June 21, 1988, the Board approved a report from our Committee
requesting an opinion from County Counsel on the Board' s ability
to compel gasoline service stations, and other similar
businesses, to accept used oil from individuals at no cost to the
individual. This issue was also referred by the Board to the
Solid Waste Commission.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES /SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR X RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
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SIGNATURE(S1: Sunne W. McPeak Tom Torlakson
ACTION OF BOARD ON August 16, 1988 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT � ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED Aa 19 8 p
County Counsel PHIL BA19HELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Director, Community Development SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Dave Okita, Asst. Director, Community Dev.
BY ,DEPUTY
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At :our meeting 'ori` August 8, 1988, staff from' the Community
Development Department' and ,County Counsel' s office. indicated. that
the._ Solid. Waste Commission was going to meet with, service station
operators in an effort ` to better understand the ..economics 'of
accepting and" recycling used oil in an effort " to .xeach a mutually
acceptable compromise on this issue. County Counsel has
requested that our Committee review the report from. the Solid
Waste Commission before pursuing the - opinion requested of the
County Counsel, and. we have agreed to await that report.
.. The other recommendations noted above were agreed on by our
Committee as a`.'. part of our overall discussion of recycling
issues.