TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Erick Lee, Public Works Director
Anna Luke-Jones, Public Works Senior Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Introduction of an Ordinance Adding Chapter 5.25 (Mandatory Organic Waste Disposal Reduction) to Municipal Code Title 5 (Sanitation and Health) and Making a Determination of Exemption Under CEQA (SB 1383) (Public Works Director Lee).
INTRODUCE ORDINANCE NO. 21-0006
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council
A) Introduce for first reading Ordinance No. 21-0006 adding Chapter 5.25 (Mandatory Organic Waste Disposal Reduction) to Municipal Code Title 5 (Sanitation and Health) and make a determination of exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
B) Direct staff to place the Ordinance on the November 2, 2021 City Council meeting agenda for second reading and adoption.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There are no fiscal implications associated with the recommended action.
BACKGROUND:
In September 2016, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 1383 (SB 1383), also known as the Short-Lived Climate Pollutants bill, into law. The legislation targets short-lived climate pollutants by focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions emitted from landfills. According to the California Air Resources Board, short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) are powerful climate forcers and harmful air pollutants that have an outsized impact on climate change in the near term, compared to longer-lived GHGs, such as carbon dioxide (CO2). SLCPs, including black carbon (soot), methane (CH4), and fluorinated gases are estimated to be responsible for about 40 percent of current net climate forcing.
According to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), landfills are the third largest producer of methane gas in California and make up approximately 21 percent o...
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