TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Erick Lee, Public Works Director
Anna Luke-Jones, Senior Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of a Resolution Approving an Agreement with HF&H Consultants, LLC to Perform Up to Five Biennial Compliance Audits on the City's Franchise Agreement with Waste Management During the Agreement Term and Appropriate $100,000 in Mostly-Reimbursable Funds from the General Fund (Public Works Director Lee).
A) ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 23-0008
B) APPROPRIATE FUNDS
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 23-0008 approving an agreement with HF&H Consultants, LLC to perform up to five biennial compliance audits on the City's franchise agreement with Waste Management and appropriating $100,000 from the General Fund.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The first audit under the proposed agreement with HF&H Consultants, LLC is scheduled to be performed during the current fiscal year and will cost the City $80,000 with a contingency of $20,000 to cover any additional requests made by the City outside the scope of work. The cost of subsequent audits will be determined in future years.
Under the current franchise agreement, Waste Management will reimburse the City for the cost of the first audit up to $80,000. Waste Management will also reimburse each biennial audit thereafter up to a maximum of $50,000, escalated according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the base year of 2020.
An appropriation of $100,000 from the available unreserved General Fund balance is required to establish the first audit and its contingency within the budget. General Fund revenues will be adjusted by $80,000 to include the reimbursement from Waste Management into the budget.
BACKGROUND:
The City awarded an agreement to Waste Management for integrated solid waste management services in Aug...
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