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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
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TO : Cesar H . Odio DATE JUN i 1994 FILE
City Manager
SUBJECT : Residential Recycling
% Collection Service Fee
FROM ; Olt E. t f 1 REFERENCES:
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Assistant City Manager
ENCLOSURES: Two
Transmitted herewith is the memorandum and Ordinance required for
the City Commission for their discussion of the establishment of
annual residential recycling collection service fee.
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CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Mayor and Members DATE:
of the City Commission
FILE :
SU SECT : Ordinance Regarding
Establishment of Annual
Residential Recycling
FROM : REFERENCES: Service Fee
Cesar H. Odic) City Commission
City Manager ENCLOSURES: Mtg. 6/30/94
Ordinance
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the City Commission adopt the
attached Ordinance amending Chapter 22, Garbage and Trash, of the
Code of the City of Miami, to include a residential recycling
service fee for all single and, duplex residences in the City of
Miami.
BACKGROUND
The City of Miami entered into an Interlocal Agreement with
Metropolitan Dade County in 1989 whereby its State of Florida
Recycling and Education Grant Funds would be received by the City
in the form of reimbursement for all equipment and other
purchases made to establish the City's residential recycling,
office paper recycling, and yard/garden waste composting
programs. There were no funds designated or permitted for
operating and disposal costs.
In 1993 the City amended the 1991-1994 Sanitation Employees
Association (S.E.A.) Bargaining Agreement to include the bargain-
ing unit's assumption of the residential (single/duplex) recy-
cling program at a projected cost of $1.15 million based upon an
estimated 60,000 single/duplex residences at $1.60 per household,
per month. We realized a savings in employee costs as a result
of this contract.
Patterned after the existing county contract, the one exception
being that the City separates materials at the curb and Dade
County's provider co -mingles materials, our agreement with the
S.E.A. included annual increases based upon the Miami Consumer
Price Index. The Dade County contract currently stands at $2.00
per household. Additionally, because the ultimate responsibility
for quality control is the City's, we incurred costs for managing
j the contract to ensure that the service is maintained at a level
acceptable to the City.
Honorable Mayor and Members
of the City Commission
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The final factor which impacts costs is the market price for the
items; newspaper, aluminum, tin, plastic and glass, collected
from these residences. In our contract the City is to realize
fifty percent (50%) of the gross of all revenues realized through
the sale of materials. The markets, however, have beer► such that
the return has been minimal.
The City's mixed office paper recycling program has expanded to
include every City facility and, as a result, is diverting
thousands of tons of mixed office paper away from the scales. We
anticipate expanding this program to include aluminum cans and
glass bottles.
The yard/garden composting facility at Virginia Key is equipped
to receive and process all of our residential yard/garden trash
with the projected potential of diverting this material,
approximately one-third of our waste stream, away from the scales
and saving costs associated with disposal. Additionally, our
program of providing free mulch and wood chips to residents and
organizations/associations has been well received. Additional
recycling efforts such as the residential backyard composting
program will also decrease the amount of waste for which the City
incurs disposal costs.
With your approval, Chapter 22 of the Code will be amended to
reflect the establishment of a fee for this residential service
which will cover the contract costs with the S.E.A. and the
administrative costs incidental to the management of the contract
and the other recycling programs.