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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on March 18, 1997 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Rogers, Uilkema, Gerber, Canciamilla, and DeSaulnier
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SUBJECT: Correspondence
C.96 LETTER, dated February 24, 1997, from James L. Cook, Manager, Property Tax, 76
Products Company, P.O. Box 25376, Santa Ana, CA 92799-5376, submitting claim on
behalf of Unocal's Rodeo Refinery Property for refund of property taxes for the 1994-95
fiscal year.
*****REFERRED TO THE TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR, ASSESSOR, AND COUNTY
COUNSEL
C.97 LETTER, dated March 4, 1997, from Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, P.O. Box 942849,
Sacramento, CA 94249-0001, urging the Board to support his proposed "Adopt a Family"
program which calls on community organizations to assist families transitioning from
public assistance to work and self-sufficiency.
*****REFERRED TO THE SOCIAL SERVICE DIRECTOR
C.98 LETTER, dated March 6, 1997, from A. Meacham, 45 Avon Road, Kensington, CA
94707, expressing disapproval of the County's entering into a contract for garbage
collection with Bay View Refuse Service.
*****REFERRED TO THE DIRECTOR, GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
IT IS BY THE BOARD ORDERED that the above recommendations as noted (*****) are
APPROVED.
I hereby certify that this Is a true and w, em til
an action taken and entered on theme minutes of-the
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PHIL BATCHELOR,Clerk ofhit a board
Treasurer-Tax Collector of Supervisor and County AdministratW
Assessor BYG,� ,
County Counsel
Social Service Director
Director, Growth Management and Economic Development Agency
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Kensington, CA 94707
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March 6, 1997<: ;. . .
Supervisor Mark DeSaulnier
Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors
651 Pine Street
Martinez, CA 94553
RE: Kensington Garbage Contract
Dear Supervisor DeSaulnier,
We are writing to express to you our strong disapproval of the County's entering into a contract
for garbage collection with Bay View Refuse Service, usurping the home rule and contracting
rights of the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District.
We would appreciate your response to the following questions:
1. Was the County's contract for garbage collection in Kensington put out to bid? If not,
why not?
2. On what basis was the garbage collection fee negotiated, and what due diligence steps
were taken by the County to verify the costs and profit margin figures provided by Bay
View?
3. Why is Bay View being permitted to provide a wholly impractical green waste pickup
and dramatically reduced general refuse curbside pickup service to its customers (refer to
the attached letter to Mary Fleming of the Community Development Department)?
We trust that you will do all that you can to void the county contract, return the negotiations to
the Kensington Community Services District where it belongs and, in the interim, require Bay
View to provide a reasonable service for the fee it charges.
Very truy yours,
Sally Fraser 41leneacham
Sally Fraser & Allen Meacham
45 Avon road
Kensington, CA 94707
(510) 528-8353
March 6, 1997
Mary Fleming
Contra Costa County Community Development Department
651 Pine Street
Martinez, CA 94553
RE: Kensington Garbage Service
Dear Ms. Fleming,
It is our understanding from articles in the Kensington Outlook that you are responsible for
managing the service provided by Bay View Refuse Service under the contract entered into by
the County. Without getting into the merits or wisdom of the County's action, we are writing to
call to your attention the impracticalities of the green waste program instituted by Bay View,
with little or no notice to its customers.
Prior to the first of this year, Bay View collected curbside refuse four times a year. Green and
non-green waste was picked up, regardless of the type of container. Bay View's new program of
collecting green waste only four times a year is totally impractical. The Company requires that
the customer provide the containers to hold the green waste, and will not take the containers.
This means that the customer has to (1) stockpile the green waste for three months at a time, and
(2) stockpile enough containers to hold three months worth of green waste.
It is impractical for most homeowners to store a number of garbage cans, large cardboard cartons
or other containers to hold green waste which is largely generated only in the spring and summer.
What will most likely happen if these rules are not changed is that people will stockpile as much
green waste as they can live with in plastic garbage bags and put it out in the once-a=year general
pickup. Thus, customers will be greatly inconvenienced, and large amounts of green waste will
end up in the dump anyway.
We fail to see why a program similar to'those employed in either El Cerrito or Albany cannot be
implemented here. In Albany a customer can buy bags to put out green waste on any regular
pick-up day, and in El Cerrito a customer is provided a green waste container,just as separate
containers are now used for glass and plastic/aluminum.
We trust that the County's contract with Bay View is not so inflexible that the current illogical,
unacceptable program cannot be corrected.
Very truly yours,
41
Sally Fraser ?IenMeacham
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