01/24/1997 - Minutes 04/14/97 FRI 16:22 FAX 503 66795 CITY OF TIG"D 1007
CITY OF TIGARD, OREGON
SOLID WASTE EFFICIENCY TASK FORCE (SWETF)
Minutes of January 24, 1997 meeting
1. Meeting began at 7:30 A.M. in the Red Rock Creek Conference Room, Tigard City Hall,
13125 SW Hall Blvd., Tigard, Oregon.
2. ROLL CALL: Voting Members present: Councilor Bob Rohlf, John Cook, Steve Bried,
Mike Leichner of Pride Disposal. It was noted that there was still one vacant voting position
that staff is continuing to try to fill. Non-Voting Members present. Larry Schmidt, Schmidt
Sanitary. Staff present: Loreen Mills. Guest Speaker: Lynne Storz, Solid Waste Manager,
Washington County,
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: January 10, 1997: Councilor Bob Rohlf requested the
second paragraph under "Committee Education - Local Issues - d.' be modified to read as
follows:
"Councilor Rohlf indicated that he wished to review further the Council's policy to reduce the
commercial subsidy."
Consensus of Task Force was to approve the minutes as amended.
4. CONCERN ABOUT QUALITY OF RECYCLING SERVICES: Councilor Rohlf shared a
copy of a notice left at curbside at his home by Miller's Sanitary Service. The notice advised
that it was the `last notice" to relocate the cart away from obstructions at curbside. Councilor
Rohlf noted he had never received notice before however it was possible it had been left
previously and he never received it. He expressed concern that this type of customer
service"was not a good way to build good customer relationships.
Mike Leichner, Pride Disposal stated that normally haulers leave a notice the first time but
provide the service, and the second time there is a violation the hauler will leave a tag notice
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changing from semi-automated trucks to fully automated trucks.
5. CUSTOMER COUNT UPDATE: Loreen Mills stated that the Task Force had requested a
customer count update for the haulers. -She presented the report and noted that there were
9,685 residential customers in the City and over 12,000 residential homes.
Also d"rshibuted was the first draft of solid waste rate and service comparisons with other
metropolitan area communities. Loreen noted that she would complete the update of rates
for residential and drop box service over the next few weeks. This draft report showed the
following average rates for cues and counties in our area and the current rd rates:
20 gallon mini-can at curbside $16-17
0 gallon Lpini-can. side $14.80
32 gallon cart at curbside $18.71
3gallon cart at curbside 17.15
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Drop box rates were discussed since they run in the "red"for most haulers in the County. It
was noted that allocation of costs for drop box recycling services was currently one issue
being addressed by the Countywide Drop Box Work Group. It was noted that Tom Miller &
Mike Leichner were representing haulers in that group and Lynne Storz and Loreen Mills
were representing local jurisdictions.
6. INFORMATION REQUEST FOR FUTURE SWETF CONSIDERATION: Steve Bried
requested SWETF review the franchise dollars received by Tigard from the haulers. He
wanted more information on how the funds are turned over to the City and whether the
franchise fees went into the General Fund. He further requested discussion about the
haulers service requirements in Tigard.
Task Force was in agreement to review these issues in the future.
7. COMMITTEE EDUCATION - REGIONAL FOCUS: Lynne Storz, Solid Waste Manager
for Washington County conducted the training session. Following is an outline of the training
elements.
a� _ SQIid Waste Management Histoty Lynne began by explained the history of solid
waste in the nation noting hazardous waste collection & transportation was part of solid
waste management. Lynne stated that there is an excess of landfill space in Oregon,
however, many rural Eastern Oregon landfills have been closed due to non-compliance with
environmental regulations. Arlington receives the majority of the metro region's solid waste
and has capacity for 40 years without expansion based on anticipated population growth
trends. King County & City of Seattle are currently transporting their waste to Arlington as
well. It was noted that Arlington has lots of room for expansion.
b. tate Law Overview - DRS 459A.005 - 459A.7$5 - Copies of the law were
distributed. Lynne shared that the State has established Oregon's priorities for managing
solid waste in order to conserve energy and natural resources. The priority methods are as
follows in order of preference:
REDUCE
REUSE
RECYCLE
COMPOST
RECOVER (ENERGY) .
LANDFILL
The ORS requires cities and counties is to achieve as much conservation of energy and
natural resources as possible by using the above methods in Rriorh order when designing
and implementing solid waste programs_
c_ 5taftwide-Recovery Go-ah ORS 459 sets the statewide recovery goal at 50% by the
year 2005. This is the percent of total solid waste generated that is recovered from the
municipal solid waste stream. This goal was determined and set as the result of waste
stream studies and a review of existing markets. DEQ has the authority to implement a solid
waste management plan statewide. Muni6paiities are required to have plans addressing
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integrated solid waste management goals far at least 10 years into the future and to have a
regular review of goal achievement and an update process for the plan. In the
metropolitan/tri-county area, Metro has been given the authority to develop a plan and goals
that are at least as stringent as DEQ's. Currently, Metro has required the tri-county area to
be at a 52% recovery rate by the year 2000.
_ RSWMP: Metro has developed the Regional Solid Waste Management Plan, referred
to as the RSWMP (pronounced !R-swamp) in the region. This sets out stringent waste
reduction criteria for the next 10 years to be met by Metro, local governments, commercial
haulers, private sector representatives and DEQ. Lynne distributed the RSWMP which sets
out elements required by service and customer type. An example of residential &
commercial waste reduction practice areas are as follows:
RESIDENTIAL WASTE REDUCTION PRACTICES- weekly on-route collection of
recyclables on the same day as garbage service; education and information for waste
prevention; expanded home composting programs; expanded & increased participation in
existing residential curbside programs; development of new collection technologies; and
curbside Collection and processing of residential food wastes (organics recovery).
BUSINESS WASTE REDUCTION PRACTICES: Waste prevention & recycling
education, information & market development; expand source-separated (pre-collection)
recycling; collection & off-site recovery of source-separated food and non-recyclable
paper; regional processing facilities fnr mixed dry waste; and fiber--based fuel.
Key elements of the recommended practices and altemative practices that can be
considered are outlined in the RSWMP. Lynne stated That jurisdictions must share why it is
important to recycle with citizens and have a strong education component to their program.
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There are also extra program elements such as: mull-family recycling; yard debris; mini-can
rates, etc.
Clackamas Multnomah and Washington Counties are in the regional wasteshed. The last
recovery rate goal was 40% by 1995. The metro region achieved that goal.
e. EQ Authority. DEQ has the authority to establish programs statewide and can
enforce the rules with fines, requiring additional programs be added by the jurisdiction to
meet the recovery rate, and can hold up the City's Comprehensive Pian Review. DEQ's
administrative rules (Division 90 - Recycling &Waste Reduction)were also distributed.
DEQ is currently working with rural areas further from the recycling/recovery markets to find
ways to make recycling & recovery more cost effective. DEQ regulates landfill regulations &
transfer stations while providing environmental oversight statewide.
DEQ is in charge of statewide recycling/recovery market development which is an area that
is not developing well at this time. Task Force discussion centered around the fact that the
scrap paper market had declined to the point that continuation of the curbside collection
program was in danger of being discontinued. The need to stabilize the recycling market is a
matter of great importance if local governments are going to be effective in limiting rate
increases.
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The question was asked, what can Tigard do to be more effective in raising awareness of the
regional issue of market development and stabilization. We were encouraged to send letters
from the Council and staff to our State Senator & Representative sharing this concern.
f. Metro Authority: The Oregon Legislature has given Metro authority to set solid
waste programstgoals and is designated as the wasteshed coordinator for the tri-county
area. The role of Metro is not real clear in many areas and Metro and other area jurisdictions
are many times not in `role" agreement. Metro has enforcement responsibilities if we don't
meet the RSWAAP goals. VViith Metro revising the recovery goal to 52%, there is lots of
concern that we can't regionally meet that goal unless the following are successful:
• heavy participation in commercial recycling is accomplished; and
• an effective organic waste process is developed and available.
The first 5 years of the previous solid waste management plan focused on residential
programs being developed. That program was easy to implement compared to the
commercial recycling & organic waste program development required now. These programs
will he much more expensive to implement. There has been much concern regional about
what the balance should be between achieving the last 4%-6% recovery and the cost of
achievement.
As an incentive
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of funds from the Tip fees they collect at the transfer stations and gave these to cities in the
form of "challenge grards". This has helped cities and counties to fund the solid waste
management mandates.
Metro has an illegal dumping enforcement team. They had come into Washington County
and cities within the County to take enforcement action without notifying the local police
department. A recent change now requires the cities & counties to sign an
intergovernmental agreement (IGA) if they wish to have this service from Metro. Currently,
Tigard does solid waste code enforcement, including illegal dumping, through our police
department and Washington County's Code Enforcement Officer.
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Metro charges$75.00/ton tip fee and this supports solid waste activities, closure of St. Johns
Landfill, and maintenance of facilities- There is a DEQ orphan site fund which is about$1.20
per ton and an excise tax goes to fund note-solid waste activities_ This is about 7.25% on
transaction base rate. Additionally there is a user fee of$17.50Iton which is included in the
tip fee.
The Task Force suggested staff create a pie chart to show what percent of every dollar, paid
at the curb, funds what programsfjurisdictions. This will be an effective tool for public
education and will appear in a future Cityscape Newsletter.
h_ Flow Contra Metro currently requires all waste generated within the region be
disposed of at one of their transfer sites. U.S. Supreme Court decision (rendered about
three years ago)found that local government cannot direct the flow of solid waste. Congress
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had to deal with implementing that decision, and has, to date, failed to enact legislation.
Metro still asserts by its own ordinance the flow control concept. While the Tip Fee at Metro
is $75.00 per ton, the Tip Fee in Newberg and Corvallis is about $40.00 less per ton. Metro
is negotiating a new contract for management the transfer station and the actual transfer of
solid waste up to Arlington. Even with this new contract, it is estimated that there would only
be about $301month difference on the cost per residential can, This new contract is also
written so that if there is transfer competition (regional waste leaving their system) costs
would increase cost to Metro.
L Washington County Landfill. There was lengthy discussion about the future of the
Washington County landfill and the impact on the local rate payer. A Landfill White Paper,
written by Lynne Storz, outlines these issues and will forwarded with the Task Force
members in the next couple of weeks.
8. NEXT MEETING: Since the Task Force meeting time was gone, consensus was to
request Lynne Storz attend the next meeting on 2fT197 and share more about regional
issues. Councilor Rohtf expressed the desire for the Task Force to review which issues or
"battles"the City should take on with regional solid waste management. He also suggested
we get more organized for the next Legislative Session to promote the City's concerns about
management solid waste.
Lynne and Loreen were requested to prepare a preliminary list of issues the City has with
Metro in the solid waste arena. Steve Bried stated he wanted to learn more about the
recycling markets and how the Task Force and Tigard can be more effective in this area.
The Task Force stated they wanted to determine the role for Tigard in the regional and
statewide playing field.
9. ADJOURNMENT: 9:45 AM
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