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Receive Information Regarding Implementation of Senate Bill 1383 within the City of Lodi (PW)
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MEETING DATE:
November 6, 2024
PREPARED BY:
Public Works Director
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Receive information regarding implementation of Senate Bill 1383 within the City of Lodi.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
At the August 16, 2023 Council meeting, Council adopted a resolution amending and restating its franchise agreement with USA Waste Service of California, Inc., doing business as Central Valley Waste Services (WM), for solid waste, recycling, and organics waste collection and processing services in the City of Lodi, effective September 1, 2023.
The main purpose of the amended and restated agreement was to account for additional services, programs, and equipment related to Senate Bill (SB) 1383. SB 1383 is an unfunded State mandate that requires organic waste be recycled to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in landfills. Those additional services and programs include weekly collection of organics waste, mandatory commercial organics recycling services, including multi-family properties, edible food recovery, procurement of recycled organic materials, and color-compliant waste carts.
A Citywide, residential re-route for collection services was completed in January 2024 to accommodate weekly collection of organics. Mandatory commercial organics was implemented in March 2024 with multi-family following in October 2024. Outreach and education was provided to commercial edible food generators in 2023 to implement individual edible food recovery programs effective January 2024. WM recently completed residential cart replacement, wrapping up on September 6, 2024, about a month ahead of schedule. 53,509 waste carts were replaced at over 19,000 homes Citywide. Of those carts 12,091 were trash, 20,234 recycling, and 21,185 organics.
The efforts of City staff and WM along with the cooperation of residential customers enabled an efficient transition and cart swap. The excellent customer cooperation was illustrated by the low “cart not out” percentage (number of carts not out at time of replacement). Lodi’s “cart not out” percentage was less than five percent, which is significantly lower than most other jurisdictions that completed cart replacement programs. The City received only 197 complaints, approximately 0.01 percent, from residents reporting cart replacement issues to the City. WM did not track the number of complaints specific to cart replacement.
Staff will present an update SB 1383 implementation since the amended and restated franchise agreement became effective, including an update of the current Corrective Action Plan status. Up to date statistics regarding numbers of resident complaints, total number of cart swaps, along with additional solid waste data will be included in the presentation.
STRATEGIC VISION:
8. Public Well-Being.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Not Applicable
FUNDING AVAILABLE:
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Charles E. Swimley
Public Works Director
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Scott R. Carney
City Manager