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10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />• Increase in supply costs such as hazardous waste packaging containers <br />• Increase in the amount of waste being disposed by our residents as they become <br />more educated on the proper disposal methods of household hazardous waste; <br />• New charges for certain waste streams such as sharps disposal, e -waste, oil and oil <br />filters; <br />• Increased collection of pharmaceutical, disposal cost alone is $.88/lb.; <br />• Increase in home generated sharps (needles) collection, management costs, and <br />sharps container costs; <br />• Increase in the amount of waste has required an increase in the amount of staff <br />needed to manage the waste; and <br />WHEREAS, San Bernardino County Fire Protection District, Household Hazardous <br />Waste Division, requires residents to dispose of sharps in an approved container to reduce <br />the potential of needle stick injuries to staff. In the past they had a grant to help cover the <br />cost to supply approved sharps containers to residents but this grant has since closed. Over <br />the past year they have asked the City to assist with the cost to purchase sharp containers <br />to be handed out at HHW sites. This cost will be included with the 3% increase. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON <br />DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: authorizing the City of Colton to enter <br />into a five year agreement with the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District, <br />Household Hazardous Waste Division, to continue to provide the safe collection, recycling, <br />treatment and disposal of hazardous materials which are generated by households in the <br />City of Colton; and <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, authorizing the City Manager, or his or her designee to <br />sign the agreement. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, Funds for the FY17/18 agreement amount are included <br />in the proposed FY17/18 budget in account number 722-6150-8215-2241. <br />PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of May 2017 <br />Richard A. DeLaRosa c <br />Mayor <br />ATTEST: <br />Carolina R. Padilla <br />City Clerk <br />