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Adopt a Resolution Allocating a Portion of Waste Management’s Annual Administrative Fees for Projects Funded in Fiscal Year 2025/26 ($290,000) (CM)
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MEETING DATE:
August 20, 2025
PREPARED BY:
James Lindsay, Acting City Manager
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Adopt a resolution allocating a portion of Waste Management’s annual administrative fees for projects funded in Fiscal Year 2025/26.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The franchise agreement with USA Waste of California, Inc. dba Central Valley Waste Services, commonly known as Waste Management (WM), includes an administrative fee of $1,000,000, payable in $250,000 increments to the City over four years beginning April 2024. The administrative fee is intended to fund a City Council-chosen project that improves our community and would otherwise not be funded in the near future. To date, the City has received two payments of $250,000, for a combined total of $500,000.
At the August 6, 2025 regular City Council meeting, the City Council discussed how it would prefer to use the $500,000. Council identified a few projects that it wanted to set aside funds for, while keeping the remaining funds available for mid-year budget adjustments that will likely be necessary later in the fiscal year. This item now presents Council’s prioritized projects to be funded in the fiscal year 2025/26 budget from Waste Management’s annual administrative fees as follows:
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$200,000 |
Citywide roadway paving assessment |
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$20,000 |
Hale Park sign replacement - reflects updated cost estimate (209 E. Elm St.) |
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$10,000 |
Maple Square landscape improvements (2 E. Lodi Ave.) |
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$60,000 |
Additional trash pick-up for the downtown alleys |
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$290,000 |
Total allocation |
Note, the Hale Park sign was discussed on August 6th as costing $10,000. Staff received an updated cost estimate of $20,000 since and meeting which is listed in the table above.
Therefore, staff recommends that the City Council consider approving the allocation of $290,000 from the WM administrative fees in General Fund account # 43199000.77020, to be set aside for Council’s prioritized projects as described in the table.
STRATEGIC VISION:
5C. Infrastructure: Address deferred maintenance.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Not applicable.
FUNDING AVAILABLE:
Funding is available in account 43199000.77020.