Agenda - 08-30-2000 - 2 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

2 Judy Brooks Contracting of Goldston, NC collects about 60 tons of food waste from 13 restaurants and other establishments in Orange County. They compost this with 5,000 tons of other material and sell their products statewide. Orange Recycling Services holds the in -house contract to collect from 19 local government locations. This is a renewal of-the existing service agreement. The Landfill compactor is on a six -year replacement schedule. Equipment reserve funds have been allocated annually and a bid has been let. This will be the last compactor purchased for use in the mixed solid waste landfill. The tractor scraper is on a six -year replacement schedule outlined in the equipment replacement schedule incorporated in the approved Solid Waste Management Department budget. This contractor replaces one bought in 1989. Staff will also provide brief reports on two other large recycling contracts that are not up for renewal, but about which the Board likely will be interested, as they represent a major share of the public services carried out or overseen by the Solid Waste Management Department. These contracts are: • the Rural Curbside Agreement, which is budgeted for $185,000 in the current year, serving about 8,500 households at a cost of $1.82 per household per month - tonnage averages have been about 380 /year; and • the Multifamily Complex Agreement is budgeted at $255,500 in the current year, serving 225 sites throughout Orange County at a cost of $106.68 per single site per month - tonnage averages have been about 1,600 /year. Staff plans to continue to administer these contracts as approved prior to the landfill transition in April 2000, pending any questions and /or direction received from the BOCC at this August 30 work session. FINANCIAL IMPACT: All three contracts proposed for renewal are on a fee - for - service basis. Adequate funds to cover all contracts and equipment purchases have been budgeted in the 2000 -01 Solid Waste /Landfill Operations Enterprise Fund. Contract costs are: food waste - $60,000; in -house - $15,800; and urban curbside - $614,800. The compactor has a cost net of trade -in of $315,972. The net cost of the scraper is $181,285. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board review the contracts and the equipment bids, as outlined in the attached memorandum, and prepare any questions for the staff. No BOCC decisions are required at this work session. Staff plans to present these items for formal BOCC approval as part of the consent agenda at the September 5 regular BOCC meeting.