Subject:
Title
Financial Incentive For Resident Reporting of Waste Management Missed Pickups
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Fiscal Impact:
Indeterminate - Dependent on Waste Management performance and number of valid complaints
Dept/Office:
District 3
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:
On October 1, 2020, the District 2 Commissioner introduced an item with an identical requested action to the one at hand. Commissioner Lober reintroduced the item on May 6, 2021 after Waste Management did not rectify the issue.
The latest data show incontrovertibly that the problem is getting progressively worse (see e.g. attached graph). As such, it is requested that the Board reconsider the proposal.
Clerk to the Board Instructions: