REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Recycling and Solid Waste Processing and Transfer Services with the City of Milpitas and Approve the Addendum to the Previously Certified SMaRT Station Environmental Impact Report
Report
BACKGROUND
Consistent with prior Council direction to pursue uses for the excess capacity of the Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer Station (SMaRT Station(r)), staff has been assessing the feasibility of providing SMaRT Station solid waste and recycling services to City of Milpitas (Milpitas) in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by Milpitas. This opportunity was made possible because the SMaRT Station has some excess processing capacity that can be marketed to serve the needs of other entities.
Adding materials from Milpitas to those already handled at the SMaRT Station would result in economies of scale that, with appropriate pricing and terms, would reduce costs and increase revenues for the existing Participating Agencies (cities of Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale). Milpitas would benefit by taking advantage of the SMaRT Station's advanced processing capabilities to reduce the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) it disposes, thus increasing its diversion rate, which would likely have financial benefits to Milpitas in the future by reducing its future costs of compliance with State of California MSW diversion requirements.
As discussed in the Report to Council from November 29, 2016 (RTC No. 16-1015), on November 14, 2016 the Milpitas City Council awarded a new, 15-year refuse collection franchise to Garden City Sanitation (GCS), with services to begin in September 2017. The franchise agreement provides for GCS to deliver recyclables, yard trimmings and construction and demolition (C&D) wastes at various "approved" and "alternate approved" facilities. The SMaRT Station is listed as an "alternate approved facility."
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