6-9-05 - For ref
6-10-05 - Ref to Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee
6-10-05 - File to Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee Clerk
6-23-05 - Communication from the Northridge West Neighborhood Council, dated June 17, 2005, relative to Community Impact Statement.
6-28-05 - Communication from the Granada Hills North Neighborhood Council, dated June 25, 2005, relative to Community Impact Statement.
6-28-05 - Council Action - Motion - Padilla / Smith Mover 2005 / Zine / Greuel - ADOPTED - The City of Los Angeles currently uses Sunshine Canyon Landfill in the North San Fernando Valley to dispose of all of its household refuse from the West, West Valley, East Valley, North Central and South Central wastesheds.
The contract with BFI contains several 5-year options for renewal. According to the contract, the City must notify BFI of its intention to continue dumping at Sunshine Canyon, one year prior to the expiration of the existing option period.
It is our duty to examine this and every contract to make sure it is in the best interest of the City of Los Angeles and its residents. It is generally accepted principal that when contracts come up for renewal that they be scrutinized and renegotiated to update and enhance the tenets of the contract for both parties.
THEREFORE MOVE to instruct the City Attorney to renegotiate the following three points in the City's contract with BFI for disposal at Sunshine Canyon Landfill:
1) Remove the requirement for disposal of 100% of the City's Household Refuse in the West, West Valley, East Valley, North Central and South Central waste sheds including any provision which penalizes the City of Los Angeles for falling below a specified tonnage for any length of time, including requirements for replacing aggregate tonnage.
2) Remove any prohibition on the City's ability to negotiate and contract with other vendors for handling the City's household refuse.
3) Remove any language that restricts the City's "most favored nations" status to lower than third-party customers tipping at least 1,000 tons per day under contract for at least one year. The City should receive the lowest price offered to any third-party customer dumping any amount at Sunshine Canyon over any period of time.
6-28-05 - Council Action - Budget and Finance and Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee reports - CONTINUED TO JUNE 29, 2005.
6-29-05 - Council Action - Motions ADOPTED (see below) - Budget and Finance and Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee reports - CONTINUED TO JULY 19, 2005.
6-29-05 - Council Action - Verbal Motion - Perry Mover 2005 / LaBonge - ADOPTED *AS AMENDED - HEREBY MOVE that Council ADOPT the following recommendations of the Bureau of Sanitation (Item No. 59, CF 05-1179) relative to Amendment No. 2 to contract with Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI) for continued disposal services at BFI Sunshine Canyon Landfill for an additional five-year term starting July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011:
1. AUTHORIZE the BOS to exercise a second five-year renewal option to agreement No. C-93688 between the City and Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. for disposal services for city waste.
2. AUTHORIZE the BOS to execute Amendment No. 2 of said agreement to extend the contract term from July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011.
6-29-05 - Council Action - *Amending Motion - Smith Mover 2005 / Padilla - ADOPTED - MOVE that the Budget and Finance and Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committees' reports relative to Amendment No. 2 to contract with Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., for continued disposal services, Item 59 on today's Council Agenda (CF 05-1179) BE AMENDED to authorize and instruct the Bureau of Sanitation with the assistance of the City Attorney to execute the necessary agreement between the City and BFI to extend from June 30, 2005 to July 22, 2005 the period by which the City must decide to exercise its second five-year renewal option of the current disposal contract (C-93688).
7-19-05 - Council Action - Budget and Finance and Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee reports - CONTINUED TO JULY 20, 2005
7-20-05 - Council Action - Budget and Finance and Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee reports - CONTINUED TO AUGUST 5, 2005
7-26-05 - File to Calendar Clerk
8-5-05 - Council Action - Corrected Motion - Smith / Perry Mover 2005/ Zine - ADOPTED - MOVE that the matter of the continued consideration of Budget and Finance and Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committees' Reports and Communication from the City Attorney relative to Amendment No. 2 to contract with Browning-Ferris Industries for an additional five-year term starting July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011, Item No. 13 on today's Council Agenda (CF 05-1179) BE AMENDED to condition the approval of this additional five-year term on the understanding that the City shall NOT exercise any option to extend this agreement for an additional five year term after June 30, 2011.
8-5-05 - Council Action - Motion - Reyes Mover 2005 / Perry - ADOPTED - MOVE that the matter of the continued consideration of Budget and Finance and Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committees' Reports and Communication from the City Attorney relative to Amendment No. 2 to contract with Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI), for continued disposal services at BFI Sunshine Canyon Landfill for an additional five-year term starting July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011, Item No. 13 on today's Council Agenda (CF 05-1179), BE AMENDED to instruct the Planning Department to prepare and process the necessary documents and actions to adopt a General Plan Amendment which would create suitable industrial zones equally throughout the City to enable the siting of facilities needed to implement the Renew LA concept - (Original Motion is on CF 05-1179-S3)
8-5-05 - Council Action - Reports FAILED of ADOPTION - Scheduled for August 9, 2005, pursuant to Council Rule 53.
8-9-05 - Council Action - Motion - Parks Mover 2005 / Weiss / LaBonge / Rosendahl - ADOPTED *AS AMENDED - Item Number 79 on today's Council Agenda (August 9, 2005) is the contract extension with Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI), for continued disposal services at the Sunshine Canyon Landfill for an additional five-year term starting on July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2011. Last Friday, the Council debated this issue and, since there were insufficient votes to approve or reject the matter, the item is before the Council today pursuant to Council Rule 53.
BFI had originally extended the time frame for the City to act on the contract option until August 5,2005. Subsequent to the Council debate last Friday, BFI sent a new letter to the City, extending the option date to August 19, 2005. At the request of the Mayor in a letter dated August 8, 2005, BFI has agreed to further extend the option date until February 28, 2006.
The debate in Council revealed many disposal options that may be available to the City instead of the use of landfills. Because BFI has agreed to extending the option date, it affords the City the opportunity to review and assess the feasibility and viability of trash disposal alternatives. In addition, the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation has indicated they will be releasing a report on alternative technologies within the next few weeks which may provide further alternatives.
THEREFORE MOVE THAT the City Council continue Item Number 79 on today's Council Agenda (August 9, 2005) relative to the extension of the BFI contract for disposal services at Sunshine Canyon Landfill until the City Council meeting of February 10, 2006.
FURTHER MOVE THAT the City Council request the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation, to review the options presented in Council to determine the feasibility, time frame and costs for implementation, including the use of day-to-day trash disposal using the "spot market;" increasing the recycling rate from "black to blue" bins; rail haul of City-collected refuse; issuing a new request-for-proposal for trash disposal; alternative technologies such as thermo-recycling and waste to energy options; and any other viable options that may develop.
FURTHER MOVE THAT the City Council request the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation, to provide a status report to the City Council every *two weeks (Greuel - Parks).*
8-9-05 - Council Action - Amending Motion - LaBonge Mover 2005 / Parks - ADOPTED - MOVE that the matter which is the subject of Item No. 79 on today's Council Agenda (CF 05-1179), BE AMENDED to resolve that the Council shall conduct a special meeting in January of each year devoted exclusively to discussion of solid waste management services and costs - said meeting to be well in advance of the City's annual budget process, before the Mayor releases his budget, and to permit sufficient time for the Council to have input on options, policy, etc. before the budget is finalized.
8-9-05 - Council Action - Motion - Smith Mover 2005 / Rosendahl / Hahn - ADOPTED - It has come to the attention of Council that reasonable and viable bids were submitted and subsequently excluded from the City's second RFP for Landfilling solutions outside of the City of Los Angeles (REP II).
It appears as though the Bureau of Sanitation (BOS) crafted an RFP that was so narrow that only two companies could have qualified under the provisions: Waste Management and BFI. There have also been accusations that BOS staff further narrowed the scope of the RFP during the evaluation process.
Doing so could have prevented the Council from being exposed to many viable alternatives for dealing with the City's waste. Subsequently, we are faced with less than a year to identify and evaluate the validity of various options.
Inasmuch as the Council has previously acted to simultaneously issue an RFP while negotiating with a current vendor for a more equitable or appropriate option.
THEREFORE MOVE that the Board of Public Works report immediately to the Ad Hoc RENEW LA Committee regarding the issuance of and language for an immediate RFP for short term municipal solid waste solutions that do not require the use of the Sunshine Canyon Landfill.
FURTHER MOVE that the RFP exclude any language requiring the applicant to own landfills and be broad enough to include all viable possibilities, including those that would allow vendors to bid for individual or multiple wastesheds as well as the totality of the City's trash.
FURTHER MOVE that the Board of Public Works immediately issue an RFQ for P.R./Educational programs that can assist the City in increasing recycling and diversion in the single-family, multi-family and commercial sectors and that the Bureau of Sanitation report immediately to the Ad Hoc RENEW LA Committee detailing existing P.R./Educational programs and plans to increase recycling and diversion.
8-9-05 - Council Action - Motion - Cardenas Mover 2005 / Rosendahl - MOVE that if the City Council votes to continue consideration of the BFI's 5-year contract renewal notification for a six-month period ending February 28, 2006, that the contract be renegotiated for a period of 3 years commencing July 1, 2006 and terminating June 30, 2009 unless one of two, one-year options is exercised, for a total maximum possible
extension of five years.
FURTHER MOVE that contract negotiations be overseen by the RENEW LA AD Hoc Committee and begin immediately on a nonexclusive basis so that alternatives may be pursued concurrently - IS REFERRED TO Ad Hoc Committee RENEW LA - (Original Motion is on Council File 05-1179-S2)
8-9-05 - Council Action - Verbal Motion - Reyes Mover 2005 / Perry - HEREBY MOVE that Council ADOPT the following recommendation in connection with Amendment No. 2 to contract with Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI) for continued disposal services at BFI Sunshine Canyon Landfill:
DIRECT the Planning Department to report to the Planning and Land Use Management Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Recovering Energy, Natural Resources and Economic Benefit from Waste for Los Angeles (RENEW LA) relative to the land use implications (zoning issues) to ensure equitable distribution of conversion technologies and any other infrastructural recommendations that the process leads to. (Original Motion is on Council File 05-1179-S4.
8-9-05 - Council Action - CONTINUED TO FEBRUARY 10, 2006
9-13-05 - No Action Taken - Future reports and consideration in Ad Hoc Committee RENEW LA
2-10-06 - Council Action - CONTINUED TO FEBRUARY 17, 2006
2-17-06 - Council Action - CONTINUED TO FEBRUARY 24, 2006
2-24-06 - Council Action - Motion - Garcetti Mover 2006 / Smith / Greuel / Cardenas / Parks - ADOPTED *AS AMENDED - MOVE that Item 18 on today's Council Agenda relative to the Budget and Finance and Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committees' Reports on Amendment No. 2 to the contract with Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI), for continued disposal services at BFI Sunshine Canyon Landfill for an additional five-year term starting July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011 be amended to authorize the President of the Board of Public Works, subject to the approval of the City Attorney as to form and legality, to exercise the City's option and execute said extension to City Contract No. C-93688, provided that the amendment contain the following provisions:
* Permit the City, at its sole discretion and without penalty, to divert one waste shed or the equivalent thereof that is consistent with the City's adopted policy (CF 05-1364) of reducing the first year tonnage by 600 tons per day of the CITY CAPACITY (defined in the contract as the household refuse collected in the Western, West Valley, East Valley, North Central and South Los Angeles Refuse Collection Districts).
* Permit the City to reduce the CITY CAPACITY, without penalty, if it is attributable to the City's use of facilities which transform, convert, recycle or reuse the waste
through the use of any alternative technologies.
* A "favored nations" clause which will ensure that the City is entitled to receive the lowest price charged by BFI to any third part customer with similar waste streams.
FURTHER MOVE that BFI make every reasonable effort to address and minimize the truck turnaround time at Sunshine Canyon, consistent with Section 4.1.5 of the current agreement which specifies a 25-minute period.
FURTHER MOVE that the Bureau of Sanitation report back to the City Council on an implementation plan to achieve the reduction in tonnage over the subsequent four years, consistent with the City's adopted policy (CF 05-1364), with particular emphasis on initiatives that reduce trash volume that is currently landfilled.
FURTHER MOVE that the Bureau of Sanitation seek out BFI and other any other waste disposal companies to develop partnerships to pursue any and all initiatives that are alternatives to the use of landfills.
2-24-06 - Council Action - *Verbal Amending Motion - Reyes Mover 2006 - Perry - ADOPTED - HEREBY MOVE that Council AMEND the Motion (Garcetti - Smith - et al.) relative to Amendment No. 2 to the Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI) for continued disposal services at BFI Sunshine Canyon to INCLUDE language to protect other communities of the City, that may be zoned industrial, from potential waste disposal in the event that BFI does not accept the City's provisions.
2-24-06 - Council Action - CONTINUED TO FEBRUARY 28, 2006
2-28-06 - Council Action - Budget and Finance Committee report ADOPTED to:
1. AUTHORIZE the Bureau of Sanitation to exercise a five-year renewal option to Contract Agreement No. C-93688, between the City and BFI, for disposal services for city solid waste, for an additional five year term starting July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011.
2. INSTRUCT the Bureau of Sanitation, working with the City Attorney, to bring forward a policy recommendation for the Council to adopt, that the City, working within the confines of the BFI contract, desires to divert from landfills as much solid waste as possible, to be used for alternative uses, i.e., green power, recycling, and reuse.
3. REQUEST the City Attorney to report back to the Budget and Finance Committee relative to recommendations on legal options the City may pursue during the five-year BFI contract extension and while abiding by the BFI contract, that will enable the City to develop more recyclables and to achieve greater diversion of solid waste from landfills to alternative uses.
4. INSTRUCT the Bureau of Sanitation to report back to the Budget and Finance Committee every six months relative to the status of the development of options to divert more solid waste from landfills, goals for achieving greater diversion, new Request for Proposals, etc.
2-28-06 - Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee report NOT ADOPTED - SUBMITTED WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION TO:
1. AUTHORIZE the BOS to exercise a second five-year renewal option to Agreement No. C-93688 between the City and Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI) for disposal services for city waste.
2. AUTHORIZE the BOS to execute Amendment NO. 2 of said agreement to extend the contract term from July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011.
2-28-06 - Council Action - Verbal Motion - Smith Mover 2006 / Parks - ADOPTED - HEREBY MOVE that Council ADOPT the following recommendations in connection with Amendment No. 2 to contract with Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI) for continued disposal services at BFI Sunshine Canyon Landfill for an additional five-year term starting July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011 (Item No. 35, CF 05-1179):
1. APPROVE the contract extension conditioned on the BFI letter dated February 27, 2006, which provides the Council until March 17, 2006 to rescind this extension if an alternate contract Amendment suitable to both parties is not agreed upon.
2. INSTRUCT the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), as lead, to enter into negotiations with BFI for an alternate contract Amendment in compliance with previous Council actions.
3. INSTRUCT the CLA and Bureau of Sanitation to report to the Council with an analysis of disposal options including but not limited to costs of such options and operating implications on Friday, March 10, 2006.
4. INSTRUCT the City Clerk to place consideration of said report , consideration of contract for rescission and/or possible amendment, and related matters on the Council agenda of MARCH 10, 2006.
2-28-06 - Council Action - Verbal Motion - Perry Mover 2006 / Smith - ADOPTED - HEREBY MOVE that Council AMEND the recommendations in connection with Amendment No. 2 to contract with Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI) for continued disposal services at BFI Sunshine Canyon Landfill for an additional five-year term starting July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2011 (Item No. 35, CF 05-1179) to include a recommendation to DIRECT the Bureau of Sanitation to contact the South Coast Air Quality Management District with respect to air quality mitigation to address a potential increase in truck traffic traveling to alternate landfill sites.
3-10-06 - Council Action - Continued to MARCH 17, 2006
3-16-06 - For Council - Communication from the City Attorney R06-0079, dated March 16, 2006, relative to discussion in Closed Session pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(b) regarding threatened litigation relative to contract terms between Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) and the City of Los Angeles for solid waste disposal.
3-16-06 - File to Council Clerk - Attn: Maria K.
3-17-06 - Council Action - Motion - Garcetti Mover 2006 / Smith / Parks - ADOPTED - MOVE that Item No. 32 on today's Council Agenda (CF 05-1179), regarding CONSIDERATION OF CONTRACT OPTIONS relative to the contract with BFI including, but not limited to possible rescission or amendment, and related matters, BE AMENDED to ADOPT the following action which would facilitate the diversion of 600 tons per day from Sunshine Canyon Landfill to an alternative landfill(s) pursuant to Council action on March 10, 2006:
* APPROVE AMENDMENT No. 2, as substantially attached, to the Agreement between the City of Los Angeles and Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI) for disposal services for City-collected waste (C-93688) to provide the City with the option to reduce its capacity at Sunshine Canyon Landfill by 600 tons per day which incorporate the following terms:
- Household waste disposal shall increase by $1.50 per ton to resolve BFI's CHANGE IN LAW claim.
- Should the City select the option to reduce 600 tons per day of household waste disposed at Sunshine Canyon Landfill, the operating fee for household waste disposal shall increase by $2.00 per ton.
4-4-06 - File to Council Clerk - Attn: Maria K. OK
4-6-06 - File in files