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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 07181995 - C70 -7D TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS T. Contra FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director fi 's Costa County DA+E: July 18, 1995 SUBJECT: Status Report on Household Hazardous Waste Program SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION: 1. Accept staff report on FY 94/95 accomplishments and FY 95/96 plans for County Household Hazardous.Waste Program. 2. Remove, effective July 1, 1995, the $2.12 per ton on tipping fees collected at the West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill which had previously financed the Household Hazardous Waste Program. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There will be no financial impact from these actions as alternative financing, as described in the attached staff report, be used to fund the FY 95/96 program. BACKGROUND: See attached staff report. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): ACTION OF BOARD ON— i APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE 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. Contact: Robin Bedell-Waite 6-2286 s CC: County Administrator ATTESTED County Counsel PHIL 8 CHE OR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Health Services Director SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Health Officer Community Development Department r R. Bedell-Waite, Hazardous Materials BY DEPUTY M382 (10/88) Contra Costa County The Board of Supervisors HEALTH SERVICES DEPARTMENT , OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR Tom Powers, 1st District sE--.c Mark Finucane, Director Jeff Smith,2nd District a._---- Z. Gayle Bishop,3rd District v., / - _ 20 Allen Street Sunne Wright MCPeak,4th District ornia Martinez, Tom Torlakson,5th District FAX(510)370-5098 County Administrator ;•, o� Phil Batchelor ��s�q couritt may, County Administrator DATE: July 18, 1995 TO: Board of �4irectorSupercaFROM: Ma inurt Health Services Department SUBJECT: End of Year Report on the Household Hazardous Waste Program We have just completed another successful year implementing the Household Hazardous Waste Program throughout the county. This is a report covering the accomplishments of last fiscal year and a description of the program being planned for the new year. Accomplishments in FY 94195 We served 11,072 households in 19 weekend collection events at 17 different sites. We collected over 300 tons of hazardous waste from these residents. Only 20.3% was incinerated and 0.5% landfilled; the rest was either recycled/reused (51.7%), neutralized (0.3%) or used as incinerator fuel (27.2%). The incineration was done by our contractor, Rollins CHEMPAK, Inc., at their fully permitted facilities in Utah, Texas and Louisiana. No spills, accidents or reports of illegally dumped wastes occurred in implementing this collection program. Changes instituted in implementing the collection events resulted in a savings of approximately $500,000, bringing our program costs down to just under $1,000,000. These cost savings were achieved by packing hazardous wastes in different ways, allowing us to dispose or recycle in less expensive ways, and by reducing the number of contractor staff utilized at the collection events. The program included an active source reduction program to assist residents in switching to less or non-toxic alternatives in maintaining their homes and gardens. We conducted a third class for Master Gardeners,city landscapers and others in Integrated Pest Management (IPM). IPM teaches gardening and landscaping techniques which give preference to the least toxic control method possible, using chemical controls only as a last resort. We also provided displays at libraries, city halls and fairs to teach about alternatives to toxic Merrithew Memorial Hospital&Clinics Public Health - Mental Health • Substance Abuse Environmental Health Contra Costa Health Plan Emergency Medical Services • Home Health Agency Geriatrics A-345 (2/93) substances. Our computer kiosk with its touch screen (purchased jointly with the unincorporated county's NPDES program), roved throughout the County teaching about HHW and source reduction. Finally, we provided four HHW collection events on a one-time contractual basis for residents of Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville and Oakland. Almost 3,000 households were served in this program. This contract will not be renewed as Alameda County expects to open a permanent HHW facility in south Oakland by the end of summer. HHW Program for FY 95,196: Background In September 1994 the County agreed to enter into a contract with the cities for provision of HHW services in FY 95/96. At approximately the same time, Concord and Pittsburg announced their intention to release a Request for Proposals in order to choose a contractor for provision of HHW collection services in FY 95/96. Prior to this time Pittsburg had chosen not to participate in the County program, and Concord had participated in a limited way in both of the first two years of the County program. The County met with all of the cities, however, from October through December to develop a scope of services. In mid-March the cities provided us with a contract to review. At the contract review meeting in early April we provided a revised budget based on cost reductions we had experienced and reduced rates from Rollins CHEMPAK. A second revised budget was submitted to the cities two weeks later. This budget was based on program revenue information we did not have earlier; receipts for the second quarter were not all in and we had no access to the tonnage figures on which our revenue would be based. We were able to project about $500,000 remaining at the end of the year due to the cost savings described earlier. In addition, we had agreed with the cities at the beginning of the fiscal year to hold a late payment from Acme Transfer Station of about $300,000 until our level of funding became clear. While the FY 94/95 cost savings and the late-payment reserve (which combine for a projected total of $838,000) would have allowed us to provide FY 95/96 services to the county and cities at no additional cost, a number of cities in central county chose not to be part of the County program, and to contract with Greenfield Environmental instead. Greenfield is the company chosen by Concord as a result of their bid process for HHW services. This year Greenfield has guaranteed,under certain conditions, to provide services at a lower cost than ours. HHW Program for FY 95/96: Planned Services The County will be providing HHW services to 6,550 households in the cities and unincorporated areas in East and West County and the City of San Ramon under a contract for HHW services which we have developed with these cities. Although we will discontinue our source reduction program to keep the budget within the amount of funds on hand, we will: • Initiate a hazardous waste collection program for certain small businesses such as painting contractors and property managers. • Seek sites and establish facilities in East and West County for residents to bring in recyclables on an ongoing, drop-off basis. The recyclables will include used motor oil, car batteries, antifreeze and latex paint. • Distribute to realtors brochures for residents who are moving. These residents have a particularly significant need for hazardous waste disposal. • Continue our aggressive cost-reduction efforts. HHW Pro am for FY 95196: Financin A portion of the unexpended funds,described above will finance the program for FY 95/96. This portion, approximately $540,000, is based on those tipping fees paid into the program by the cities and unincorporated areas which will be part of our program. The exact figure will be based on final tipping fee revenues and program expenses for FY 94/95. The remaining unexpended funds will be distributed to cities contracting with Greenfield for HHW services. Previous HHW program financing had come from the $2.12 per ton on solid waste tipping fees. The Board took action in fall 1994 to include the $2.12 per ton fee for the Acme/BFI transfer station as part of the 25% fee BFI was to pay to the County,with the understanding that the HHW program would not receive that $2.12 per ton as of July 1, 1995, and that those monies would remain part of the 25% fee, to be allocated to other County programs. Board Action Financing for HHW services in FY 95/96 will, as presented above, come from unexpended funds. In future years financing would shift to direct payments made by the cities to the county, with their funding source being either garbage fees or NPDES financing. In lieu of these alternative financing mechanisms, the Board will now need to take action to eliminate collection of the $2.12 tipping fees from the West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill, effective July 1, 1995.