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109 <br />It is the intention of the County to own the material, however, if the County and Service <br />Provider find that it is in their mutual interest to change ownership it can be negotiated at any <br />time. The Designated Processing Facility is: <br />Orange County Solid Waste Management <br />1514 Eubanks Road <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27516 <br />The current Designated Processing Facility is owned and operated by County. No tip fee will <br />be assessed or charged for loads of recyclables collected by the Service Provider under this <br />Contract. It is assumed that no tip fee will be charged to the Service Provider for the duration <br />of the contract term. Should conditions change during the contract term and tip fees will be <br />assessed then Service Provider may request additional compensation from the County for its <br />demonstrated increased costs. <br />L. Public Awareness Program <br />County shall develop, implement, and maintain a Curbside Recycling Public Awareness Program. <br />Service Provider agrees to materially assist County with public relations and education efforts by <br />ensuring that Provider's collection crews maintain a supply of program brochures furnished by <br />the County to distribute to individuals as needed. Additionally, Provider's employees are to <br />understand, at least in a generic manner, how materials are collected and processed and must <br />be able to convey this information to citizen's who inquire about the program. <br />M. Adverse Weather Policy <br />In no case will an employee of the County direct a Service Provider to work in conditions that <br />the Service Provider determines to be unsafe. In no case will an employee of the Department <br />of Solid Waste Management knowingly allow a Service Provider to operate in conditions that <br />the employee deems to be unsafe. <br />To minimize inconvenience to the public when services are cancelled, efforts will be made to <br />reschedule the missed day. If a weather event necessitates cancellation of services for only <br />one day, that one day will be rescheduled for the following Saturday. When a weather event <br />necessitates cancellation for multiple days, only the first cancelled day will be collected on the <br />following Saturday and the succeeding cancelled days will not receive a make —up day and will <br />be collected on their next regularly scheduled service day. <br />If a severe weather event develops after work has begun, the decision to cease collection <br />operations will be the Provider's unless the County determines that it is in its interest to issue <br />an early closing. Decisions to cease service shall be communicated between the parties <br />designated mangers within one hour of the decision. In the event of an early closing, if service <br />is able to begin the next day, then service shall resume where it left off at the time of early <br />closing, and then the scheduled collection for the current day will commence and if necessary <br />will be completed on the following Saturday. If the weather event prevents service from <br />operating on the following day, the remaining work that went undone on the day of early <br />closing shall be canceled, not to receive service until the next regularly scheduled day. <br />During severe weather events, the Service Provider has the right to refuse to service streets or <br />portions of streets that it deems either unsafe to service, or unserviceable due to some other <br />obstruction. Service Provider must immediately inform County of any and all locations that are <br />skipped due to being deemed unserviceable. Contract Reasonable efforts shall be made to <br />service such areas as soon as possible. <br />RFP #5199 Page 17 of 26 <br />