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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-64 CC Reso - Transfer Station Revised Rate ScheduleRESOLUTION NO. 2016- 64 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF UKIAH ADOPTING A REVISED RATE SCHEDULE FOR THE UKIAH TRANSFER STATION FOR FIVE-YEAR PERIOD COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 2017- DECEMBER 31, 2021 WHEREAS: 1. Solid Waste Systems of Ukiah, Inc. ("Company") operates a Transfer Station on Plant Road near Ukiah for the receipt and processing of solid waste ("Operations") from City of Ukiah ("City") and County of Mendocino franchised waste haulers and self -haulers, pursuant to the Second Amended and Restated Transfer Station Agreement ("Transfer Station Agreement"), dated October 7, 2015; and 2. Section 6.1 of the Transfer Station Agreement adopted rates ("Tipping Fees") for Operations, as described in Section 4. Section 6.2 provides for annual modification of Tipping Fees based on increases or decreases in the Consumer Price Index, the Fuel Index and Pass-through Costs. Pass-through Costs include the cost of disposing of solid waste received at the Transfer Station at a properly licensed solid waste landfill; and 3. Section 6.4 of the Transfer Station Agreement provides that every five years, beginning no later than April 2, 2016, for the rates effective on January 1, 2017, and every five years thereafter, the City shall conduct a review of the Tipping Fees to determine whether the automatic annual adjustments adequately account for the actual increases or decreases in the Company's reasonable operating costs; and U4. In conducting the five year rate review the City may conduct such investigation as it deems appropriate and the Company must cooperate with that investigation which may include the inspection and copying of Company records and a Review or Audit of the Company's financial records by a City retained Certified Public Accountant ("CPA"); and 5. The City staff and its retained CPA conducted an investigation they deemed appropriate, including a review of the Company's financial statements, as reviewed by Moss Adams, LLP, a major national accounting firm, and other Company financial records; and 6. The results of the investigation and the staff's recommendations, including the data relied upon and the staffs analysis and recommendations, were summarized in the Agenda Summary Report for the City Council meeting on September 21, 2016, and have been publically available on the City's website at http://www.citvofukiah.com/solidwastenotice/; and 7. This same information is incorporated into a "City Manager's Report" and recommendation pursuant to Ukiah City Code Section 3952, which has been publically available at http://www.citvofukiah.com/solidwastenotice/ for not less than 10 days prior to the December 7, 2016, rate hearing; and 9. The proposed adjustments in the Transfer Station Rates are reflected as a Pass-through cost in the notice and rate schedule for the City's curbside waste collection rates which are scheduled for hearing on November 16, 2016; and 10. Forty-seven days prior to the hearing scheduled for November 16, 2016, the City has provided direct mail notice of the proposed curbside collection rates to every owner of property in the Page 1 of 3 City, as listed on the Mendocino County tax records, and every customer of curbside waste collection services in the City; and 10. The City Clerk has published notice in the Ukiah Daily Journal of the proposed Tipping Fee adjustments in compliance with Ukiah City Code Section 3954; and 11. After conducting the hearings on November 16, 2016 and December 7, 2016, and considering all of the evidence, statements and arguments presented during the hearings, the City Council determined that the proposed rate schedule, attached hereto as Exhibit A ("Initial Rate Schedule") provides reasonable rate adjustments which are fair to both the Company and the ratepayers; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Ukiah hereby adopts the Initial Rate Schedule, as set forth in Exhibit A. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the rate schedule adopted by this Resolution shall be effective on January 1, 2017. All prior rate schedules in conflict herewith are repealed upon the effective date of the new schedule. All other contract conditions for service remain unaltered and in full effect and the City Clerk shall cause the publication of this resolution in the Ukiah Daily Journal within 10 days following Council action on December 7, 2016, pursuant to the provisions of Section 3957 of the Ukiah City Code. PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Ukiah on the 7t' day of December 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmembers Scalmanini, Crane, Mulheren, Doble, and Brown NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None D, t3l2-hwly, Mayor ATTEST: Kristine Lawler, City Clerk Page 2of3 EXHIBIT A Solid Waste Systems, Inc. Transfer Station Initial Rate Schedule Effective Date January 1, 2017 2017 Item Rates MSW - Ton $92.90 MSW - Yard $21.20 Upto3 Minimum Gate Fee - MSW cans $10.60 After 3 Per Can Rate - 32 gallon cans $3.55 Green Waste - Ton $42.05 Green Waste - Yard $6.15 Minimum Gate Fee - Green Waste 4 $6.05 Mixed Load - Additional Charge $18.80 Appliances $10.35 Oil Filters - Small $0.35 Oil Filters - Medium $0.65 Oil Filters - Large $0.90 _ Concrete - Ton $65.95 Dirt - Ton $65.95 Sheetrock - Clean $42.05 Sheetrock - Dirty $65.95 Tires - Bicycle $1.20 Tires - Motorcycle $2.30 Tires - Passenger Car $3.45 _ Tires - Passenger Car with Rim $5.40 Tires - Truck $7.30 Tires - Truck with Rim $9.85 _ _ Tires - Tractor 43.45 - 328.65__ E -Waste - Computers No Charge E -Waste - Monitors No Charge Scrap Metal No Charge Page 3 of 3