Subject:
Title
Financial Incentive for Constituent Reporting of Waste Management Missed Pickups, District 2
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Fiscal Impact:
The total fiscal impact is unknowable as it relates to the number of valid complaints to be received, in the future, due to missed Waste Management pickups. Funds related to this agenda item will be associated with Fund #4110 and Account #361100.
Dept/Office:
District 2
Requested Action:
Recommendation
Authorize staff to create and implement a program, with formalized procedures, incentivizing reporting of future solid waste collection issues and delays with payments to parties reporting legitimate complaints. Direct staff to verify, claim, and withhold the maximum justifiable liquidated damage value allowable under the County's contract with Waste Management until further direction from the BoCC. Lastly, authorize the Chair to execute all documents necessary to effectuate these directives.
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Summary Explanation and Background:
As it has done in the past, Brevard County put out to competitive bid a seven-year garbage collection contract. Bids received were substantially higher than those received the last time the contract went out to bid. The lowest bidder, Waste Management, was negotiated down from their formal bid but the cost, nevertheless and unavoidably, increased substantially, on a percentage basis, from existing rates.
Given that the County had no viable less expensive alternative and trash would otherwise go uncollected, Waste Management was awarded the contract. As bids went through the same competitive process as the last time the contract went out to bid, Waste Management has no obligation to justify their rate increase. Despite the high percentage increase, they were the least expensive option for the County.
While I would very much like to see the County perform a feasibility study of bringing solid waste collection in-house and I absolutely support allocating funding to accomplish this, we must address immediat...
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