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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: .June 19,2001 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />_ SUBJECT: Renewal of Contract for Curbside Recycling __ <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N)NO No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Curbside Recycling Contract <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, 96$-2$85 <br />Blair Pollock, 968-2788 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 9fi8-4501 <br />Durham fi8$-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To contract with Waste Industries, Inc. for urban and rural curbside recycling <br />services. Approval will enable Orange County to continue to provide curbside recycling <br />services without interruption over the next fiscal year. <br />BACKGROUND: The Urban (or In-Town) Curbside Recycling Program provides weekly <br />collection services to all single-family homes within the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and <br />Hillsborough. The Rural Curbside Recycling Program provides biweekly collection services to <br />certain areas of Orange County, and .currently services approximately 45% of residences in the <br />unincorporated part of the County. <br />Orange Community Recycling has provided contracted curbside recycling services since 1988. <br />The contracts for rural and urban curbside have been awarded by competitive bidding process, <br />and then renewed as needed, provided service was acceptable and funds were appropriated: <br />The key difference between this contract and previous contracts for curbside recycling services <br />is that the urban and rural curbside contracts are now combined into one single contract. In the <br />past, the rural and urban curbside recycling programs were contracted separately. Combining <br />the two contracts into one eases the administrative burden for both the County and contractor <br />and provides more stability in the contractual arrangements by allowing the County to negotiate <br />terms of service for a single contract rather than two each year. The frequency of service for <br />the various jurisdictions is proposed to remain the same. <br />Curbside recycling services have been provided by five different contractors since 1988. Urban <br />Curbside recycling services have been provided by Waste Management, followed by BFI, and <br />currently Waste Industries. Rural Curbside recycling services have been provided by Barbours <br />Waste, followed by SunShares, and currently Waste Industries. Waste Industries won bath the <br />urban and rural curbside contracts in separate open bids in 1997 and 1998 and has held the <br />contracts for both programs over the past several years. Contracts for both rural and urban <br />