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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRCC AGENDA PK 1992/07/20MEMORANDUM DATE: July 16, 1992 Tos Resource Conservation Commission Members VIA: Doug Reid, Environmental Review Coordinato FROM: Athena Lee Bradley, Conservation Coordinator ~~~ REs Household Hazardous Waste Education Project Attached please find the Council Report regarding a grant that the City has been awarded by the State of California, Integrated Waste Management Board to begin a household hazardous waste education project. This project will prove invaluable in helping to reduce toxic waste, including motor oil and paint, that is regularly (and illegally) disposed in trash. I am also very excited to announce that the City is a recipient of a Merit Award from the California Department of Conservation for excellence in public sector leadership in recycling. Only two awards are given to public sector in the State for recycling. I will accept the award at the annual California Resource Recovery Association Conference later this month; we will receive a trophy first of August. COUNCIL AGENDA STATEMENT Item Meeting Date 07/21/92 ITSM TITLE: Resolution Accepting a State of California Household Hazardous Waste Grant to Establish a Household Hazardous Waste Education Project. Resolution Amending FY 1992-1993 Budget to Include the Household Hazardous Waste Education Project and add a Temporary, Part-time Position in Unclassified Service in the Environmental Management Unit and Appropriating Funds Therefor. SUBMITTED BY: Conservation Coordinator RSVIEWED BY: City Manager (4/5ths Vote: Yes X No_) BACKGROUND: Last February, staff developed a proposal for a Household Hazardous Waste Reduction, Alternatives, and Disposal Educational Awareness Project; Council authorized a $47,826 application to be submitted to the State of California, Integrated Waste Management Board ("Board") and authorized the City Manager to execute the contract when and if received. The City has now been notified of a $25,050 award. The grant process was very competitive, with the Board receiving 54 applications requesting over $3.5 million in funding. The Board awarded grants to 14 applicants, for a total of $338,829 (Attachment A is a listing of grant recipients). Accepting the grant obligates the City to hire an intern to carry out the Project; as described in this report, the intern will be fully reimbursed by grant funds. California State Health and Safety Code prohibits the disposal of hazardous waste at solid waste landfills. The County of San Diego, in order to enforce the State law is currently conducting load checks of vehicles entering the landfill; vehicles found to contain hazardous materials may be fined. Today, hazardous materials can be found in almost every house and come in many forms, including household cleaners, automotive products, paints and solvents and pesticides. Chula Vistans dispose of an estimated 400 tons of household hazardous waste each year, most of which ends up at the Otay Landfill. It is staff's intent to utilize the grant funds to provide information to Chula Vista residents and school children about the importance of using alternatives to toxic household hazardous products when available and to properly dispose of waste from household hazardous products. Council action is now required to allow the Project to begin. I RECOMMENDATION: Approve the resolutions. BOARDS/COMMISSIONS RECOMMENDATION: The Resource Conservation Commission will review this report at their July 20th, 1992 meeting. Minutes can be forwarded to Council after the RCC action; a brief oral report of the RCC member's comments may be given to Council at this meeting, if requested. DISCUSSION: The Household Hazardous Waste Reduction, Alternatives, and Disposal Educational Awareness Project ("RAD Project") will provide information and educational materials to school children and adults in the Chula Vista community. The Project will involve targeting classrooms (K-Middle and Junior High) for household hazardous waste curricula usages, conducting high school and adult presentations, a sticker campaign for young children, mobil educational display unit, distributing constumer awareness materials, and small business hazardous materials awareness outreach. Attachment B is a detailed work statement for the Project. A portion of the grant funds, $7695, will be utilized to fund the salary, benefits and mileage reimbursement of an intern to work with the City's Conservation Coordinator to implement the Project. Additionally, $10,728 of the grant funds will be utilized to subcontract with the County's Household Hazardous Materials Program educational contract holder2 to provide classroom presentations, teacher in-service trainings and corresponding curricula, presentations to adults (both in English and in Spanish) and printed materials. Grant funds amounting to $1,226 have also been awarded to purchase a mobile educational display unit that will provide pictures, samples and information on household hazardous waste to be set-up in public areas. Additional grant funds of $5,701 will allow the purchase of educational stickers for young children and consumer awareness guides (English and Spanish). FISCAL IMPACT: The total cost of the proposed Household Hazardous Waste Reduction, Alternatives, and Disposal Educational Awareness Project is $33,383. The City's "hard match" for the Project includes $215 for design and printing costs, $45 for copying and $40 for postage. The total amount requested for appropriation is $25,350. This includes $25,050 for Project activities which will ' This wrricula and other informational materials have been developed by the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC), a local non-profit organization contracted by the County of San Diego to provide regional educational awareness of hazardous waste. z At this time, the contract awarded to the Environmental Health Coalition has ended. A competitive bid process is under way; a new contract will be awarded sometime in early August. The City will then subcontract with the entity that is awarded the County's HHW educational contract. 2 be fully reimbursed through the grant. It is proposed that the additional appropriation of $300 come from the Waste Management Trust Fund, established by Council to assist with residential solid waste reduction and recycling. An additional $5,413, as "soft match" for the grant, will be provided through the activities of the Conservation Coordinator ($4,540), printing staff ($164) and related support staff ($709) which is therefore currently appropriated. An in-kind donation of literature, valued at an estimated $930, and media assistance and technical consultation, valued at an estimated $1,825, will be provided by the County of San Diego and its Household Hazardous Materials Program educational contractor. 3 ATTACHMENT A CALIFORNIA INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD RESOLIITION 92-66 APPROVAL OF DISCRETIONARY GRANTS AHEREAS, Public Resources Code Section 46401 requires the Board to award"grants to cities, counties, and local agencies with zesponsibility for waste management for local programs that help prevent the disposal of hazardous waste, including household hazardous waste at solid waste facilities; and WHEREAS, the Board complied with Public Resources Code Section 46208 by adopting regulations specifying procedures for the issuing of grants for the Solid Waste Disposal Site Cleanup and Maintenance Account; and WHEREAS, Board staff solicited applications for Discretionary Grants from December 2, 1991 through February 28, 1992; and WHEREAS, 54 applications were received before the February 28, 1992 deadline; and WHEREAS, Board staff reviewed the applications to determine their conformance with the regulations in Title 14, California Code of Regulations (14 CCR), Division 7, Chapter 7, Articles 1, 1.1, 2, and 2.1; and WHEREAS, Board staff has determined 14 applications are eligible for grant funding; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board hereby awards the following 14 Discretionary Grants in the following amounts: 1. City of Oroville 2. County of Calaveras 3. City of Martinez 4. City of Santa Clarita 5. County of Mono and City of Mammoth Lakes 6. City of Big Bear Lake 7. City of Chino 8. City of Fontana 9. City of Rialto 10. City of Chula Vista 11. County of Tuolumne 12. County of Ventura, Cities of Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks 13. City of West Sacramento 14. City of Woodland $57,388 43,500 7,681 25,156 64,100 17,259 21,300 5,956 16,093 25,050 24,766 7,800 21,705 1,075 TOTAL ~ $338,829 CERTIFICATION The undersigned Executive Director of the California Integrated Waste Management Board does hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the California Integrated Waste Management Board held June 24, 1992. dat .JUN 2 4 1992 Ralph E. Chandler Executive Director ATTACHMENT B PROJECT OVERVIEW 1. TO FOSTER AN INCREASED AWARENESS IN SCHOOL CHILDREN OF THE PROBLEMS CREATED BY THE PRESENCE OF HHW IN THE HOME, COMMUNITY, AND IN THE ENVIRONMENT. Action Steps 1. Survey schools to determine those that are currently using the HHW Curriculum developed by Environmental Health Coalition (EHC). 2. Based on results of Action Step One, contract with the EHC to provide curricula and related materials, in-service trainings, and presentations to Teachers and school children in Chula Vista. 3. Distribute HHW informational brochures as take-home materials directed toward an increased awareness, in both school children and adults, of the problems related to the presence of HHW. 4. Develop additional educational materials for school children directed toward an increased awareness of the problems relating to HHW. 2. TO FOSTER AN INCREASED AWARENESS IN ADULTS OF THE PROBLEMS CREATED BY THE PRESENCE OF HHW IN THE HOME, COMMUNITY AND IN THE ENVIRONMENT. Action Steps 1. Distribute EHC informational brochures and fact sheets and City informational flier which outline the problems generated by the improper handling and disposal of HHW and provide suggestions for nontoxic alternatives. 2. Disseminate HHW reduction and proper disposal information targeting adults by means of a mobile educational display to be set up in public locations such as shopping malls and community fairs. 3. Contract with EHC to offer HHW educational presentations to targeted adult groups within the City to include Spanish-speaking individuals, senior citizens, and at least one High School. 4. Utilize established Neighborhood Watch Program and volunteer infrastructure for community outreach through literature dissemination, forums and neighborhood event participation. 5. Utilize the City of Chula Vista's existing Business Recycling Outreach Project to foster employee awareness, targeting specifically employees residing within the City and surrounding area. 3. TO CREATE A CONSUMER AWARENESS OF ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF TOXIC MATERIALS IN HOUSEHOLDS. Action Steps 1. Contract with EHC to print additional copies of their recently developed consumer shopping booklet which outlines alternative products that may be utilized as substitutes for common household products that are considered toxic. 2. Contract with EHC to develop Spanish translated version of consumer shopping booklet, and print booklet. 3. Disseminate consumer shopping booklets (English and Spanish) by means of mobile educational display to be set up in public locations such as shopping malls; through community presentations and by mail upon request. 4. Establish consumer awareness of nontoxic product alternatives to toxic products within school educational programs, adult presentations and at literature distribution points. 5. Target one local store for consumer awareness of toxic household products and nontoxic alternatives commonly found in stores. This aspect of the proposed Project would provide the basis for a model consumer awareness program through the establishment of an ongoing HHW awareness literature distribution display at the targeted store and "point-of-purchase" signage in order to foster greater awareness of the availability of safe alternatives in retail stores. 4. TO EDUCATE THE WASTE GENERATOR ABOUT THE PROPER DISPOSAL OF HHW Action Steps 1. As part of the educational awareness for all ages described in Action Steps One and Two, City staff and EHC will include in all presentations information on the importance of 1) if a toxic product must be used, to only purchase what is necessary; 2) use the product until the container is empty, and 3) dispose of any unused product properly. 2. Disseminate information regarding the proper means of disposal of HHW in the City of Chula Vista and South Bay Region, through the presentations, mobile educational display unit, and other points of literature distribution, as described in the above Action Steps. 3. Work with local media to promote household hazardous awareness collection events in the South Bay region, and to periodically advertize the availability of collection at APTEC. 5. TO INSTITUTIONALIZE HHW CURRICULUM AS A PART OF THE CHULA VISTA SCHOOL DISTRICT CURRICULA Action Steps 1. As described in Action Step One, the City would contract with the EHC for the purpose of presenting Teacher workshops and classroom presentations to familiarize teachers with the EHC HHM curriculum. Through the Project evaluation, and ongoing follow-up, City staff would monitor the continued use of the curricula, and encourage additional adoption of the curricula in other classroom through teacher networking, "word-of-mouth", and continued targeting of schools for curricula usage. 2. Provide HHM educational information to the school district for the purpose of distribution to school children who will then take the information home to their parents.