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TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
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DATE: April 10, 1989 COUN
SUBJECT: STATUS REPORT ON LITTER ISSUES
Specific Request(s) or Recommendations(s) & Background & Justification
RECOMMENDATION
1. Acknowledge receipt of the attached status report from the Health Services Director in regard to those
assignments given to the Health Services Department pursuant to the Board's order of December 20, 1988 on
this subject.
2. Request the Health Services Director to report to our Committee again on this subject on July 24, 1989 at 10:15
A.M.,providing our Committee with a comprehensive review of litter-related matters under the purview of the
Health Services Department.
BACKGROUND:
On December 20, 1989 the Board of Supervisors approved a report from the 1988 Internal Operations Committee
on a wide variety of litter-related issues. The Board referred to our Committee all litter-related issues, and
specifically the responses which had been provided to the 1988 Internal Operation's Committee by the Health
Services Department on the specific items which had been requested of the Health Services Department earlier in
the year.
The attached report was filed with our Committee on April 10, 1989. We believe that this report shows that progress
continues to be made in enforcing the mandatory subscription ordinance,permitting of private refuse haulers in the
County and intensifying the response to litter-related complaints. Our Committee would like to continue to monitor
this issue and will provide further reports to the Board as activity dictates.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: NO SIGNATURE:
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ecom dation County Administrator Recommendation of Board Committee
SignatOM POWERS SUNNE WRIGHT McPEAK
Actionn: April 18, 1989 Approved as Recommended x Other
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Vote of Supervisors
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND
x Unanimous(Absent I I ) CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND
Ayes: Noes: ENTERED ON HE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
Absent: Abstain: OF SUPERVISORS ON DATE SHOWN.
cc: . County Administrator
Health Services Director
ATTESTED
PHIL BA CHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY: ,Deputy Clerk
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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
HEALTH SERVICES DEPARTMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
To: Board of Supervisors - Internal Date : 4/5/89
Operations Committee
From: Mark Finucane Subject : Litter Control
Health Services Director
A. Health Services is continuing the program of notifying non-
subscribers of the county mandatory Solid Waste Subscription
Ordinance . We have distributed over 1, 000 notices to non-
subscribers. A number of the questionaires attached to the
notices have been returned to us indicating the homeowner has
now subscribed to collection service. We will, of course,
continue the program until all properties in the unincorpor-
ated area have been notified.
A number of questionaires have been returned requesting
exemptions from mandatory service. In most cases we have
granted the exemptions because the requestors obviously had
no need to subscribe to collection service .
We have also had a number of questionaires returned from
people who are consummate practitioners of resource recovery.
A number of these people have registered strong objections
to our reminder that solid waste subscription is mandatory.
B. A number of private haulers have applied for and been
granted Board approved permits to transport refuse. In the
near future we plan to submit another list of private haulers
for Board approval of conditional permits .
C. Beginning in August 1988 we employed two full time Solid
Waste Investigators (Sanitation Aides) . The number of solid
waste field investigations made since August 1988 has
averaged 512 per month compared to an 86-87 fiscal year
average of 266 and 211 for fiscal year 87-88.
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