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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 5, 2000 Action Agend <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Approval of Food Waste Collection and Composting Agreement with Brooks <br />Contractin <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Joe Clayton 969-2972 <br />Proposed Service Agreement Blair Pollock 968-2788 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />11Aeh~nn 336.227-2031 _ <br />PURPOSE: To consider approval of a service agreement with Brooks Contracting that enables <br />the County Solid Waste Management Department to provide separated food waste collection <br />services to commercial establishments throughout Orange County that generate at least two <br />tons of compostable food waste per month. <br />BACKGROUND: For the past year, 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 a company facility in <br />Chatham 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 on a monthly basis. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The cost of this contract is $60,000 annually and assumes that Brooks <br />Contracting will collect up to 750 tons of food. Any amount over that tonnage would cost an <br />additional $55 per ton. A total of $60,000 has been budgeted. <br />RECOMMENDATION(Sj The Manag ornreo mood wastet sub ect to final%vieweby staff and <br />agreement with Brooks to collect and p <br />the County Attorney. <br />