AGENDA ITEM REPORT
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A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH BROWARD COUNTY AND OTHER PARTICIPATING MUNICIPALITIES (ILA) PROVIDING FOR THE CITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL AND RECYCLABLE MATERIALS PROCESSING AUTHORITY OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN AS EXHIBIT “1;” AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE SAME; AND AUTHORIZING THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS.
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BACKGROUND:
This item was postponed from the May 11, 2023, City Commission Meeting.
In 2019, Broward County and the Broward County Municipalities entered into a Memorandum of Understanding, providing for a collaborative study and subsequent development of an integrated solid waste and recycling system (“MOU”), and established a Solid Waste Working Group (“SWWG”), consisting of a group of elected municipal officials chosen from among the elected officials of the participating municipalities in Broward County and a County Commissioner.
In 2022, the SWWG agreed to engage a consultant to perform a waste generation study in order to further its efforts to agree on a regional solution for the future of solid waste disposal and the processing of recyclable materials in the future; and the County hired the consultant and contributed to fifty percent (50%) of the costs, while the participating municipalities paid the remaining fifty percent (50%) based upon population.
The SWWG has drafted and unanimously approved the attached Interlocal Agreement for Solid Waste Disposal and Recyclable Materials Processing Authority of Broward County, Florida (“ILA”), the purpose of which is to create a solid waste authority (the “Authority”), which will develop and implement a long-term, environmentally sustainable, transparent, innovative, and economically efficient plan and approach to disposal, reduction, recycling, and reuse of waste generated in Broward County.
DISCUSSION:
Broward County and the municipalities have agreed to enter into the ILA for the purposes noted above, and this ILA must be approved by municipalities representing at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the population of Broward County, plus the County. The term of the ILA is 40 years with up to two (2) 10-year extensions. Once approved, the Authority will then create a Master Plan of Operations and Facilities Amendment, which will be subject to further approval by the County and participating municipalities. The City can opt out of the ILA if the City chooses not to approve the Master Plan. Per Section 5.4 of the ILA, initial startup costs of two million dollars ($2,000,000.) per year will be paid as follows: the County will pay fifty percent (50%) with the remaining fifty percent (50%) to be paid on a pro rata basis based on population. Under this formula, at seventy-five percent (75%) participation, we will be required to pay $78,461.60, but at one hundred percent (100%) participation, this number goes down to $58,846.20. This will just be in place until the Authority is able to impose a special assessment.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of this resolution.
FISCAL IMPACT:
REVENUES: $ 0
EXPENDITURES: $ 78,461.60
BUDGETED? Yes
NOTES: Funding is available from Account 6197-4815, Environment/Conservation.