File #: RES 2023-090    Name: Solid Waste & Recyclable Processing Authority ILA
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/24/2023 In control: City Commission
On agenda: 5/25/2023 Final action: 5/25/2023
Title: 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.
Indexes: Broward County, Interlocal Agreement, Recycling, Resolution, Solid Waste
Attachments: 1. RESOLUTION 2023-090-Solid Waste & Recycling Authority ILA, 2. EXHIBIT 1-Solid Waste & Recycling Authority ILA, 3. BACKUP-Estimated Municipal Contributions Prior to Special Assessment, 4. BACKUP-Resolution 2019-156-Original Solid Waste MOU, 5. BACKUP-Resolution 2022-022-First Amendment Solid Waste MOU
Related files: RES 2022-022, RES 2019-156, RES 2023-146, RES 2024-099
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...

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