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AGENDA REPORT
CITY OF MOORPARK
Honorable City Council
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[: Mary K. Lindley, Assistant to the City Manager
July 1, 1993 (CC Meeting of July 7)
Consider the Draft Legislation Establishing the
Ventura County Waste Management Authority
jou may recall, the purpose of the Ventura County Waste
jement Authority is to provide one regional agency that will
ge all solid waste facilities and regional policies for its
ar agencies. The Authority would make consistent and
dinated policy for processing, recycling, composting,
>formation, marketing, and disposal of materials. It would
ce redundancy and enhance consistency in regulatory activities
tywide, reduce service duplication, provide for regional and
1 compliance with state mandates, and reduce and clarify
3nsibilities for known and unknown present and future
ilities.
The entura County Waste Authority will be created and given powers
thro gh state legislation. State Senator Cathie Wright is
spo soring the bill (SB 817) establishing the Authority.
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- separate cover, Council was provided with a copy of the sixth
E of the legislation. As it now stands, VRSD's solid waste
:ions, assets, and liabilities will be separated from its
awater functions, assets, and liabilities. An audit will be
>rmed to confirm assets and liabilities and distrubution of
between the solid waste and waste water functions. All VRSD's
I waste functions, assets, and liabilities will be assumed by
zew Waste Management Authority and VRSD will cease to exist as
.id waste agency. The Authority will not be a merger of VRSD's
she County of Ventura's solid waste functions, but a brand new
:y that will assume the solid waste functions of both agencies.
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The major changes that have developed since the Council reviewed
the proposed legislation in February include the terms for
par icipation in the Authority, withdrawal, membership, and voting.
As originally drafted, participation was mandatory for all
jur sdictions upon the establishment of the Authority.
Establishment of the Authority was to take place upon an
aff rmative vote of at least eight cities and the County. As it
now stands, participation in the Authority is voluntary. Upon an
aff rmative vote by seven cities and the County, the Authority will
be stablished. Any jurisdiction that does not wish to join the
Aut ority must indicate so by a majority vote of its governing body
wit in thirty days after the date the Authority is formed.
It is important to note that as the Legislation is currently
written, a jurisdiction may be at a disadvantage if it chooses not
to oin the Waste Authority. The Authority will be responsible for
sol d waste planning, operations, facility development, and setting
rat s for solid waste facilities, i.g., landfills and MRFs.
Cur ently, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors is the final
authority for these types of actions, and it makes decisions by
soliciting comments from the Waste Commission. In addition, the
Aut ority will act as the Local Task Force (LTF) under AB 939. As
it stands now, the LTF is the Waste Commission and is responsible
for approving the cities' and County's Integrated Solid Waste
Man gement Plans and overseeing siting, development, and operation
of tolid waste facilities. The decisions that the Authority will
make will have a direct impact on all jurisdiction whether they are
mem ers or not. As a member, the City would be directly involved
in etting policy and facility rates. If the Council believes that
it s not in the City's best interest to join the Waste Authority,
it hould consider recommending language changes that would give
non member agencies some participation in deciding issues that
dir ctly affect them.
The original proposed legislation did not have the withdrawal
pro ision that is now included as Article 5 in the sixth draft. In
the event that the Legislature amends this legislation at anytime
in 1he future, any member agency may withdraw from the Authority.
If E member agency chooses to withdraw, they will still be bound by
any obligations established prior to the agency's notice of
wit drawal. In addition, withdrawing agencies may only reassume
flov control over their solid waste when commitments expire or in
the event that they agree to provide financial assurances to
supliort past commitments to solid waste facilities.
At enator Wright's insistence, the sixth draft states that the
me ership of the Authority will be comprised of one elected
rep esentative from each member city and one representative from