TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Lars Ewing, Public Services Director
DATE: June 26, 2018
SUBJECT: Consideration of (a) Amendment One to Agreement between the County of Lake and Lake County Waste Solutions, Inc. for Solid Waste Handling and Recycling Services; and (b) Amendment One to Agreement between the County of Lake and South Lake Refuse Company, LLC for Solid Waste Handling and Recycling Services
Background
The primary entities involved with the administration of the County's waste management program, specifically the Eastlake Landfill operated by the County of Lake and the two contracted franchise waste haulers for the unincorporated portions of Lake County, are faced with the challenge of operating programs during a time of declining waste quantities as a result of successful recycling and diversion efforts, while at the same time confronted with increasing labor, fuel and equipment costs, escalating regulatory compliance expenses, and a crumbling recyclables market. These stressors are not new to the County's waste management program; in 2012 the County, recognizing the financial pressure that these issues were beginning to place upon the integrated waste management division, began a five-year contract with Solid Waste Systems of Ukiah for the acceptance of approximately 20,000 tons of waste per year from the Ukiah transfer station. The intent of the temporary import contract was to generate additional revenue by increasing disposal quantities rather than raising fees. While laudable, this stop-gap measure was never intended to be a permanent solution, and out of concerns following the 2015 wildfires that the landfill would reach its' maximum capacity before an expansion could be constructed your Board determined in early 2016 to allow the contract to expire in December 2016 rather than exercise the five-year extension option. The last couple years the loss of import revenue at the landfill has been sufficiently offset by revenue generated from the dispos...
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