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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 05101994 - 1.65 1.62 through 1,.66 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Adopted this Order on May 10,1994, by the following vote: AYES: Supervisors Smith, Bishop, DeSaulnier, Torlakson and Powers NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None SUBJECT: CORRESPONDENCE Item No. 1.62 LETTER dated April 26, 1994, from S. Schlendorf,Chair,Contra.Costa County Library Commission, commending the Board for its efforts to reach consensus on the future operation of the County Library system. ***ACKNOWLEDGED RECEIPT 1.63 LETTER-dated April 28, 1994, from C.Bates,Manager, Round Hill Estates Property Owners Association, P.O.Box 3428,Danville 94526,requesting an amendment to Ordinance 80-68 excluding common open space parcel from the special police tax assessment in County Service Area P5. ***REFERRED TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AND COUNTY COUNSEL 1.64 LETTER dated April 26, 1994,from J.Philbrick,Post Office Committee,Discovery Bay Municipal Advisory Council, 1957 Dolphin Place,Discovery Bay 94514,advising that Discovery Bay has recently been designated by the U.S. Postal Service as a separate mailing identity with assigned zip code 94514. ***REFERRED TO DIRECTOR,GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 1.65 LETTER dated April 28, 1994,from R.Granzella,President,Richmond Sanitary Service,P.O.Box 4100, Richmond 94804,advising of its offer to several communities to accept their municipal waste at reasonable costs and with full environmental indemnity and making the same offer available to Contra Costa County. ***REFERRED TO DIRECTOR,GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 1.66 LETTER dated April 28, 1994, from Pastor D.Jordan,Rollingwood Lutheran Church,2393 Greenwood Drive,San Pablo 94806,protesting a$112 charge for a fire inspection. ***REFERRED TO ACTING FIRE CHIEF,WEST COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT cc: GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY WEST COUNTY FIRE PROTECTYION DISTRICT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNTY COUNSEL i hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and Org on tt a ontehe minutes of the Board of Su ATTESTED: Clerk of the Board PHIL SATCHEL Administrator of Supervisors and County .Deputy By RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE �? 3260 BLUME DRIVE RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA 94806 Iw EIVED April 28 , 199.4 291994 Board of Supervisors Contra Costa County BOARDOFSUPERVISORS 901 Pine Street O(�TRACOSTACO. Martinez, CA 94553 Attention: Tom Powers, Chairman Re : Cost Effective, Environmentally Sound Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste Dear Chairman Powers : This is to inform you that we have made offers to several central and east county communities to accept their municipal waste on a short or long term basis at reasonable costs and with full environmental indemnity. I have enclosed the copy of a letter I sent to those communities which contains the initial offer. This same offer is available, _to Contra ..Costa. County, should you be interested. While.: Contra 4 Costa may., not=.have- the ability to direct` a large., amount: of :.waste, -I:. know there are several other issues regarding waste disposal that you are vitally interested in. Also, since you know .,how. high disposal costs have been in recent years at the Acme-Keller- facilities I hope our proposal can be viewed as another way to cut the high costs while also addressing your other concerns . The Richmond Sanitary Service and associated companies believe that they can provide.. a much lower disposal rate and better terms than any others that have been offered to you to date . Our companies also recognize that you are in litigation with the Acme Fill Corporation, but this litigation should not force you to accept a rate which .will be .higher than the one that you could obtain on the open, competitive market . Moreover,_. :we 'are . also sensitive 'to the fact - that there are closure :costs'..:associated with Acme' Fill and fees which support vital community and mitigation services . These issues we are prepared to :discuss as well . MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 4100, RICHMOND, CA 94804-0100 DEPARTMENTS: AREA CODE (510) ADMINISTRATION 262-1640 • ENGINEERING 262-1660 ACCOUNTING 262-1680 FAX 223-1591 A member of one of our companies will be contacting your staff in the near future to discuss more specifically the details of our program and offer. Very truly yours, Ric mond Sanitary S rvice Ri hard Granzella President CC : Supervisor Jeff Smith SupFrv3:sor Mark Oe' Saalenier Supervisor Gayle Bishop Supervisor Tom Torlakson CAO Phil Batchelor ry� RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE c� 3260 BLUME DRIVE RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA 94806 April 21, 1994 Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager City of Walnut Creek P.O. Box 8039 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Re: Cost Effective, En�airo-nmentally Sound Disposal 'of Municipal Solid Waste Dear Mr. Blubaugh, The purpose of this letter is to offer up the solid waste disposal system that has been developed by Richmond Sanitary Service (RSS) and its affiliated companies over the past decades as a solution to the solid waste disposal requirements of your rate payers . The solid waste- disposal system developed by RSS includes two operating landfills, the Potrero Hills Landfill owned and operated by Potrero Hills Landfill, Inc . (PHL) and the West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill operated by West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill, Inc . (WCCSL) . The two landfills which make up the RSS disposal system are well located to , serve the requirements of all of Contra Costa County. Both the WCCSL and Potrero Hills Landfill are permitted to receive direct haul waste from all types of collection vehicles . This unique advantage allows solid waste collectors flexibility as to whether or not each load of waste must be.,processed through a transfer station. RSS believes that its disposal system is the only one located proximately to Contra Costa County that can offer this direct haul option to its customers . The fact that RSS' system includes two landfills provides you with flexibility in providing for the disposal requirements of your ratepayers and, at the same time, allows the landfills the flexibility to reassign waste from one facility to another to the extent required in the process of securing permitting for future deliveries of waste . MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 4100, RICHMOND, CA 94804-0100 DEPARTMENTS: AREA CODE (510) ADMINISTRATION 262-1640 • ENGINEERING 262-1660 ACCOUNTING 262-1680 FAX 223-1591 Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager April 21, 1994 RSS envisions the utilization of Potrero Hills over the long term based upon its vast capacity, state of art design, and relatively low development and operating costs . As you may know, Potrero Hill' s competitor in the landfill business, BFI and Boyd Olney .(with interests in Keller Canyon and the Acme Transfer Station) have intervened in the current hearings regarding issuance of a permit for expansion of Potrero Hills . Frankly, we believe that the efforts of BFI-Olney arise from their interest in limiting the competition for waste from -Contra Costa County. We believe that Acme is anxious to have a stream of waste going through its transfer station and on to Keller Canyon so that Acme can receive the associated revenue, extract a fee to cover its $80, 000, 000 . 00 (approx. ) closure -shortfall, and assure the flow of royalty payments from Keller Canyon to its original developer - Mr. Olney. The arguments advanced by BFI tend to focus on relatively arcane, procedural aspects of the law and Potrero Hills Landfill will resolve those issues over the next few months . In the interim, WCCSL has the ability to accept the waste from Contra Costa at the WCCSL facility while PHL completes its expansion permit in Solano County. The ability to meet the current and long term needs of Contra Costa with two landfills that can receive both direct haul and transferred waste distinguishes the RSS alternative . Moreover, both Potrero Hills and the WCCSL are on tract to full funding of their landfill. closure obligation and will not look to Contra Costa waste to make up huge financial deficits like those at Acme that arose while Acme was in use . The closure charges at WCCSL and Potrero Hills are designed to finance closure with current waste receipt and are projected over the permitted life of the landfills . We believe that there is emerging competition in the landfill business and that the pricing of landfill disposal will continue to respond to the competition over the coming years . Therefore, we would be willing to. enter into either a short term agreement or a long term agreement - both with a full environmental indemnity. I am confident that we can present the lowest cost alternative to your ratepayers over both the short and long term. R Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager April 21, 1994 I or one of my partners will be giving you a call in the next few days to see if we can arrange to meet with one another. We can address the savings that could be realized by combining self haul and transfer into an integrated and cost efficient disposal plan to service the needs of your community. Very truly yours RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE BY: DENNIS J. VARNI CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER , DJV/slg l "t. RICHMOND SANITARY . SERVICE �? 3260 BLUME DRIVE RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA 94806 April 28 , 1994 Board of Supervisors Contra Costa County 901 Pine Street Martinez, CA 94553 Attention: Tom Powers, Chairman Re : Cost Effective, Environmentally Sound Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste Dear Chairman Powers : This is to inform you that we have made offers to several central and east county communities to accept their municipal waste on a short or long term basis at reasonable costs and with full environmental indemnity. I have enclosed the copy of .a letter I sent to those communities -which contains' the initial offer. This. same.. offer is available-, to Contra :Costa' County', should you-'be. interested.... While Contra Costa may not have the- ability to direct a large amount of waste, I know there are several other issues regarding waste disposal that you are vitally interested in. Also, since you know how high disposal costs have been in recent years at the Acme-Keller facilities I hope our proposal can be viewed as another way to cut the high costs while also addressing your other concerns . The Richmond Sanitary Service and associated companies believe that they can provide a much lower disposal rate and better terms than any .others that have been offered to you to date . Our companies also recognize that you are in litigation with the Acme Fill Corporation, but this litigation should not force you to accept a rate which will be higher than the one that you could obtain on the open, competitive market . Moreover,. .we are also sensitive to the fact that there are closure costs associated with Acme Fill and fees which. support vital community and mitigation services . These issues we are prepared-, to: discuss- as well . MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 4100, RICHMOND, CA 94804-0100 DEPARTMENTS: AREA CODE (510) ADMINISTRATION 262-1640 • ENGINEERING 262-1660 ACCOUNTING 262-1680 FAX 223-1591 A member of one of our companies will be contacting your staff in the near future to discuss more specifically the details of our program and offer. Very truly yours, Ric mond Sanitary S rvi'ce Ri hard Granzella President CC: Supervisor Jeff Smith .Supervisor Mark De Saulenier Supervisor Gayle Bishop Supervisor Tom Torlakson CAO Phil Batchelor RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE ® 3260 BLUME DRIVE • RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA 94806 April 21, 1994 Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager City of Walnut Creek P.O. Box 8039 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Re: Cost Effective, Environmentally Sound Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste Dear Mr. Blubaugh, The purpose of .this letter. is to offer up ,the solid waste disposal system that has been developed by Richmond Sanitary Service (RSS) and its affiliated companies over the past decades as a solution to 'the solid waste disposal requirements of your rate payers . The. solid waste disposal system developed by RSS includes two operating landfills, the Potrero Hills Landfill owned and operated by Potrero Hills Landfill, Inc . (PHL) and the west Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill operated by West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill, Inc . (WCCSL) . The two landfills which make up the RSS disposal system are well located to serve the requirements of all of Contra Costa County. Both the WCCSL and Potrero Hills Landfill are permitted to receive direct haul waste from all types of collection vehicles . This unique advantage allows solid waste collectors flexibility As to whether or not each load of waste must be processed through a transfer station. RSS believes that its disposal system is the only one located proximately to Contra Costa County that can offer this direct haul option to its customers . The fact that RSS' system includes two landfills provides you with flexibility in providing for the disposal requirements of your ratepayers and, at the same time, allows the landfills the flexibility to reassign waste from one facility to another to the extent required in the process of securing permitting for future deliveries of waste . MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 4100, RICHMOND, CA 94804-0100 DEPARTMENTS: AREA CODE (510) ADMINISTRATION 262-1640 • ENGINEERING 262-1660 ACCOUNTING 262-1680 FAX 223-1591 Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager April 21, 1994 RSS envisions the utilization of Potrero Hills over the long term based upon its vast capacity, state of art design, and relatively low development and operating costs . As you may know, Potrero Hill' s competitor in the landfill business, BFI and Boyd Olney (with. interests in Keller Canyon and the .Acme Transfer Station) have intervened in the current hearings regarding issuance of a permit for expansion of Potrero Hills . Frankly, we believe that the efforts of BFI=Olney arise from their interest in limiting the competition for waste from Contra Costa County. We believe that Acme is anxious to have a stream of waste going through its transfer station and on to Keller Canyon so that Acme can receive the 'associated revenue, extract a fee to cover its $80 , 000, 000 . 00 (approx. ) closure shortfall, and assure the flow of royalty payments from Keller Canyon to its original developer - Mr. Olney. The arguments advanced by BFI tend to focus on relatively arcane, procedural aspects of. the law and` Potrero Hills Landfill will resolve those issues over the next few months . In the interim, WCCSL has the ability to accept the waste . from Contra Costa at the WCCSL facility while PHL completes its expansion permit in Solano County. The ability to meet the current and long term needs of Contra Costa with two landfills that can .receive both direct haul and transferred waste distinguishes the RSS alternative . Moreover, both Potrero Hills and the WCCSL are on tract to full funding of their landfill. closure obligation and will not look to Contra Costa waste to make up huge financial deficits like those at Acme that arose while Acme was . in use . The closure charges at WCCSL and Potrero Hills are designed to finance closure with current waste receipt and are projected over the permitted life of the landfills . We believe that there is emerging competition in the landfill business and that the pricing of landfill disposal will continue to respond to the competition- over the coming years . Therefore, we would be willing to enter into either a short term agreement or a long term agreement - both with a full environmental indemnity. I am confident that we can present the lowest cost alternative to your ratepayers over both the short and long term. Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager April 21, 1994 I or one of my partners will be giving you a call in the next few days to see' if we can arrange to meet with one another. We can address the savings that could be realized by combining self haul and transfer into an integrated and cost efficient disposal plan to service the needs of your community. Very truly yours, RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE BY: DENNIS J. VARNI CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER DJV/slg y , , 'MS RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE t� ® 3260 BLUME DRIVE RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA 94806 April 28, 1994 Board of Supervisors . Contra Costa County 901 Pine Street Martinez, CA 94553 Attention: Tom Powers, Chairman Re : Cost Effective, Environmentally Sound Disposal of Municipal Solid. waste Dear Chairman Powers : This is to inform you that we have made offers to several central and east county communities to accept their municipal, waste on a short or longterm basis at reasonable costs and with full environmental indemnity. I have enclosed the copy of a letter I sent to those communities which- contains the initial offer. This same offer is available-. to. Contra Costa_: County-,- ,should you- be interested. - While Contra Costa may not have the ability to direct- a large amount of waste, I know there are several other issues regarding waste disposal that you are vitally interested in. Also, since you know how high disposal costs have been in recent years at the Acmour proposal facilities I hope ouproposal can be viewed as another way to cut the high costs while also addressing your other concerns .- The Richmond Sanitary Service and associated companies believe that they can provide a much lower disposal rate and better terms than any others that have been offered to you to date . Our companies also recognize that you are in litigation with - the Acme Fill Corporation, but this litigation should not force you to accept a rate which will be higher than the one that you could obtain on the open, competitive market . Moreover, - we are also sensitive to the :fact that there are closure costs associated with Acme Fill and fees which support vital community and- mitigation- _services .- These issues we are prepared to, discuss: a.s well . MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 4100, RICHMOND, CA 94804-0100 DEPARTMENTS: AREA CODE (510) ADMINISTRATION 262-1640 • ENGINEERING 262-1660 ACCOUNTING 262-1680 FAX 223-1591 (1 l A member of one of our companies will be contacting your staff in the near future to discuss more specifically the details of our program and offer. Very truly yours, Ric mond Sanitary S rvice Ri hard Granzella President cc : Supervisor Jeff Smith Supervisor Mark De Saulenier Supervisor Gayle Bishop Supervisor Tom Torlakson CAO Phil Batchelor RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE t? ® 3260 BLUME DRIVE RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA 94806 April 21, 1994 Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager City of Walnut Creek P.O. Box 8039 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Re: Cost Effective, Environmentally Sound Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste Dear Mr. Blubaugh, The purpose of . this letter is to offer up the solid waste disposal system that has been developed by Richmond Sanitary Service (RSS) and its affiliated companies over the past decades as a solution to the solid waste disposal requirements of your rate payers . The- solid waste disposal system developed by RSS includes two operating landfills, the Potrero Hills Landfill owned and operated by Potrero Hills Landfill, Inc. (PHL) and the West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill operated by West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill, Inc . (WCCSL) . The two landfills which make up the RSS disposal system are well located to serve the requirements. of all of Contra Costa County. Both the WCCSL and Potrero Hillis Landfill are permitted to receive direct haul waste from all types of collection vehicles . This unique advantage allows solid waste collectors flexibility as to whether or not each load of waste must be processed through a transfer station. RSS believes that its disposal system is the only one located proximately to Contra Costa County that can offer this direct haul option to its customers . The .fact that RSS' system includes two landfills provides you with flexibility in providing for the disposal requirements of your ratepayers and, at .the same time, allows the landfills the flexibility to reassign waste from one facility to another to the extent required in the process of securing permitting for future deliveries of waste . MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 4100, RICHMOND, CA 94804-0100 DEPARTMENTS: AREA CODE (510) ADMINISTRATION 262-1640 • ENGINEERING 262-1660 ACCOUNTING 262-1680 FAX 223-1591 I u Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager - April 21, 1994 RSS envisions the utilization of Potrero Hills over the long term based upon its vast capacity, state of art design, and relatively low development and operating costs . As you may know, Potrero Hill' s competitor in the landfill business, ,BFI and Boyd Olney (with interests in Keller Canyon and the Acme Transfer Station) have intervened in the current hearings regarding issuance of a permit for expansion of Potrero Hills . Frankly, we believe that the efforts of BFI-Olney arise from their interest in limiting the competition for waste from Contra Costa County. We believe that Acme is anxious to have a stream of waste going through its transfer . station and on to Keller Canyon so that Acme can receive the 'associated revenue, extract a fee to cover its $80, 000 , 000 . 00 (approx. ) closure shortfall, and assure the flow of royalty payments from Keller Canyon to its original developer - Mr. Olney. The arguments advanced by BFI tend to focus -on relatively arcane, procedural aspects of the law and Potrero Hills Landfill 'will resolve those issues over the next few months . In the interim, WCCSL has the ability to accept the waste . from Contra Costa at the WCCSL facility while PHL completes its expansion permit in Solano County. The ability to meet the current and long term needs of Contra Costa with two landfills that can receive both direct haul and transferred waste. distinguishes the RSS alternative . Moreover, both Potrero Hills and the WCCSL are on .tract to full funding of their landfill. closure obligation and will not look to Contra Costa waste to make up huge financial deficits like those at Acme that arose while Acme was in use . The closure charges at WCCSL and Potrero Hills are designed to finance closure with current waste receipt and are projected over the permitted life of.- the landfills . We believe that there is emerging competition in the landfill business and that the pricing of landfill disposal will continue to respond to the competition over the coming years . Therefore, we would be willing to enter into either a short term agreement or a long term agreement = both with a- full environmental indemnity. I am confident that we can present the lowest cost alternative to your ratepayers over. both the short and long term. Mr. Don Blubaugh City Manager April 21, 1994 I or one of my partners will be giving you a. call in the next few days to see if we can arrange to meet with one another. We can address the savings .that could be realized by combining self haul and transfer into an integrated and cost efficient disposal plan to service. the needs of your community. Very truly yours, RICHMOND SANITARY SERVICE BY: DENNIS J. VARNI CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER DJV/slg 1 I Y Rollingwood Lutheran Church 2393 Greenwood Drive ** ** San Pablo, California 94806 nscs sw_es sora 'g FIDE (510) 223-1932 i Rev. Donald Jordan, Pastor RECEIVED :1 28 April 1994 MAY _ 21994 Board of Supervisors County of Contra Costa CLERK BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Martinez , CA CONTRA COSTA CO. Dear Supervisors: Enclosed is correspondence relative to a $112 tax bill we received for a fire inspection. Our congregation vehemently protests this additional grab on money given to the Lord for His mission. We believe this fee is way out of line and imposes a severe burden of taxation upon our members who already pay enough in taxes. We are ashamed of your action in imposing yet another tax on the people you are elected to represent. Please send us information on acquiring an exemption or waiver of this tax. Conscientiously objecting, 'AA2– 14-1-Laa POW67-7— Pastor Donald Jordan For the members of Rollingwood Lutheran Church cc: Church Council .z. Orilyda Are Protectiolf District > f 33 ORINDA WAY, ORINDA, CA 94563 • (415) 254-1110 April 25, 1994 Reverend Donald Jordan Rollingwood Lutheran Church 2393 Greenwood Drive San Pablo, CA 94806 RE: Inspection Fee Dear Reverend Jordan: Per your request on how you may appeal, contest or receive an exemption from the annual permit fee imposed upon your congregation and church. I am unable to waive the fee. Please be advised the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors imposed such fee's to cover the costs of such state required inspections. If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me personally at 254-1110. At your service, r - Ron Garland Fire Marshal RG:cjl