18 - City Solid Waste Collection Amendment

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Item No. 18 TO: Mayor, Mayor Pro -Tem & City Council FROM: Grayson Path, City Manager Rob Vine, Assistant City Manager Michael Smith, Public Works Director Edwayne Samis, Solid Waste Superintendent SUBJECT: CITY SOLID WASTE COLLECTION ADJUSTMENT TO OPERATION AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE DATE: June 27, 2022 BACKGROUND: At the May 23, 2022 City Council meeting, the City Council authorized amendments to the Code of Ordinances, transitioning the City Sanitation from twice a week pickup to once a week pickup. The reasons for this change are thoroughly discussed in that item's agenda memo. In those changes, the ordinance authorized up to 12 bags of trash per pickup (thus per week). On June 13, 2022, it came to the City Manager's attention that we inadvertently and unintentionally failed to take in to account the fact that under the old ordinance, each residence had been able to set out an additional 6 bags of trash on bulk pickup days in lieu of a bulk item. This therefore allowed residents to set out 18 bags of trash instead of just 12 bags. While the code was written to be 12 bags + bulk or 12 bags + 6 additional bags, given we have shifted bulk pickup to requiring coordination with the Sanitation Department, this effectively could in turn allow residents to place up to 18 bags of trash out on their pickup day now that we have shifted to a once per week pickup. Looking historically, it appears the intent of the previous code was six additional bags of brush and not trash, however the code could be read and interpreted as either brush or trash. Either way, amending our code to make it 18 bags (which can be trash and/or brush) addresses this. STATUS OF ISSUE: On June 13, 2022, the City Manager administratively authorized collection of up to 18 bags per pickup day in anticipation that an amendment would come before the City Council on June 27, 2022 to officially adopt this change in to the city code. After speaking with Mayor Portugal and