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Page 1 of 2 SARATOGA CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: March 16, 2011 AGENDA ITEM: DEPARTMENT: City Manager’s Office CITY MANAGER: Dave Anderson PREPARED BY: Barbara Powell DIRECTOR: Assistant
City Manager SUBJECT: Approval of Agency Agreement for Countywide AB 939 Implementation Fee RECOMMENDED ACTION: Accept report, and authorize the City Manager to approve the Agency Agreement
with the County of Santa Clara for the Countywide AB 939 Implementation Fee. BACKGROUND: To comply with state law and local needs, the County of Santa Clara and fourteen cities cooperated
in the creation of a Household Hazardous Waste ((HHW) Program. Since 1992, all cities except for the City of Palo Alto have contracted with the County to provide HHW services through
an Agency Agreement for Countywide Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program. The Agreement authorizes the County to collect and distribute a fee --collected at landfills, non-disposal
facilities and transfer stations located in Santa Clara County --on each ton of waste brought to the facilities. The fee is then separated and distributed as follows: 1. A Household
Hazardous Waste (HHW) Fee, distributed to the County to implement the Countywide HHW Program; and 2. A Program Fee, distributed to the cities to implement measures related to AB 939,
which requires the reduction of landfilled waste. Each jurisdiction contracts with the County for collection and distribution of AB 939 funds. Therefore, all fourteen cities must approve
the Agency Agreement for Countywide AB 939 Implementation Fees by June 30, 2011. If one or more jurisdictions do not approve this agreement, the AB 939 fee would not be collected after
June 30, 2011. The proposed agreement includes an AB 939 Implementation Fee of $4.10 per ton, which is the same as the 2010-11 fee. FISCAL IMPACTS: There is no direct financial impact
to the City of Saratoga as a consequence of approving this Agreement, since the AB 939 fees are assessed on tonnage brought to landfills, non-disposal facilities and transfer stations.
Page 2 of 2 CONSEQUENCES OF NOT FOLLOWING THE RECOMMENDED ACTIONS: The Agreement for the Countywide AB 939 Implementation Fee would not be approved and the fee would not be collected
after June 30, 2011. ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S): N/A FOLLOW UP ACTION(S): Implement Council direction. ADVERTISING, NOTICING AND PUBLIC CONTACT: Pursuant to Government Code 54954.2, this
item was properly posted as a City Council agenda item and was included in the packet made available on the City’s website in advance of the meeting. A copy of the agenda packet is also
made available at the Saratoga Branch Library each Monday in advance of the Council meeting. ATTACHMENTS: Agreement