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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 Food Waste Collection and Com ostin Contract <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Draft Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Joe Clayton; 969-2972 <br />Blair Pollock, 968-2788 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider renewal of a contract that enables the County Solid Waste <br />Management Department to provide separated food waste collection services to commercial <br />establishments throughout Orange County that generate at least two tons of compostable food <br />waste per month. <br />BACKGROUND: For the past two years, Brooks Contracting of Goldston, North Carolina has <br />provided food waste collection and composting services to Orange Community Recycling. <br />Brooks provides storage carts, collects food waste, and composts it at their facility in Chatham <br />County. This contract represents a renewal of the existing agreement to collect from <br />establishments willing to provide at least two tons of separated food waste monthly. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The cost of this contract is $60,000 annually and assumes that Brooks <br />Contracting will collect up to 800 tons of food. Any amount over that tonnage would cost an <br />additional $55 per ton. $60,000 has been budgeted for this service. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the service <br />contract with Brooks to collect and compost food waste and authorize the Chair to sign the <br />agreement, subject to final review by StafF and -the County Attorney. <br />