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RESOLUTION NO. 2007-196
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA ADOPTING THE AB 939 FEE INCREASE
FROM 2.5 PERCENT TO 5 PERCENT, APPLIED TO THE
SOLID WASTE SERVICE RATES, TO FULLY FUND THE
STATE MANDATED WASTE DIVERSION AND RECYCLING
PROGRAMS AS PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE WASTE
MANAGEMENT ACT (AB 939)
WHEREAS, the Waste Management Act of 1989 (AB 939) authorized cities and counties
to establish a fee to pay for the cost of developing and implementing the programs designed to
meet the state mandate to divert a minimum of 50 percent of their annual waste from landfills;
and
WHEREAS, the City established a one percent fee in the 1994/1995 fiscal year, and in
1998/1999 increased that fee to two percent, to cover household hazardous waste programs when
the County sold the landfills and stopped providing regional household hazardous waste services;
and
WHEREAS, the City increased the fee from two percent (2%) to two and one-half
percent (2.5%) in 2003 to cover the special handling and disposal of televisions and computer
monitors that had been deemed hazardous and banned from landfills; and
WHEREAS, State grant funds will no longer cover household hazardous waste costs in
municipal household hazardous waste programs; and
WHEREAS, waste batteries, fluorescent lamps, and small electronic devices were
deemed toxic and banned from landfill disposal in February 2006, which increased resident
traffic at Chula Vista's Household Hazardous Waste Facility; and
WHEREAS, Chula Vista has not met the 50 percent mandated landfill diversion goal for
2005 and must work to implement new programs and program enhancements to regain the
50 percent mandated diversion goal, including a construction and demolition debris recycling
ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Chula
Vista does hereby authorize a two and one-half percent (2.5%) increase in the AB 939 fee to five
percent (5%), applied to the solid waste rates, to fund recycling, solid waste and household
hazardous waste recycling and education programs.
Presented by
Approved as to form
Jack
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Ann Moore .
City Attorney
Resolution No. 2007-196
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PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, this 24th day of July 2007 by the following vote:
AYES:
Councilmembers:
Castaneda, Ramirez, Rindone, and Cox
NAYS:
Councilmembers:
None
ABSENT:
Councilmembers:
McCann
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Cheryl Cox, ~r
ATTEST:
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Susan Bigelow, MMC, City Cler
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO )
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, Susan Bigelow, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution No. 2007-196 was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City Council at a
regular meeting of the Chula Vista City Council held on the 24th day of July 2007.
Executed this 24th day of July 2007.
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