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RESOLUTION NO. 11173
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA
VISTA REQUESTING THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPER-
VISORS TO RECONSIDER PORTIONS OF THE HAZARDOUS WASTE
ORDINANCE REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO SMALL BUSINESS
OPERATIONS INCLUDING GAS AND OIL ORIENTED BUSINESSES
AND RECONSIDERATION OF FEES RELATING THERETO
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, your honorable Board on May 25, 1982 adopted
Ordinance No. 6293 and 6376 relating to disclosure and surveil-
lance of hazardous waste materials and on the same date adopted a
resolution urging the cities of San Diego County to adopt ordi-
nances similar in content to said ordinances, and
WHEREAS, in response to said request from the County of
San Diego in the firm belief that the regulation of hazardous
waste materials is a matter of extreme gravity and importance, the
City Council of the City of Chula Vista on July 20, 1982 adopted
the County ordinances by reference, and
WHEREAS, subsequent thereto, the County amended the
original ordinances by Ordinances No. 6469 and 6470 on November
16, 1982, which ordinances have also been adopted by reference by
the City Council, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Chula Vista is
strongly of the opinion that the regulation of hazardous waste
materials must be implemented on a regional scale and that the
County is the organization best suited to such regulation both by
virtue of the scope of the problem and the availability of tech-
nically skilled and trained personnel to properly carry out such
a function, and
WHEREAS, although the City Council remains committed to
the County implementation of such a program and places full
reliance upon the advice and knowledge of the County officials,
complaints have now been received relative to the implementation
of the surveillance ordinance as it is applies to service stations
and other small businesses, and,
WHEREAS, such service stations and other small businesses
may store quantities of used oil derived from both their own
operation or oil brought to them by private parties for appropriate
disposal, and
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WHEREAS, these small businesses object not only to the
extremely complicated reporting forms but also to the high minimum
permit fee of $75.00 which relates soley to the number of employees
in a particular business and not necessarily to the actual amount
of time that may be required to be expended by an inspector.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City Council of
the City of Chula Vista ~oes hereby urge the County Board of
Supervisors to further examine the ordinances regulating hazardous
waste materials and disclosure, especially as such ordinances apply
to automobile service stations and other small businesses that
store use~ oil, which is classified as a hazardous material.
BF IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council also requests
the County Board of Supervisors and the County staff of the Health
Department carefully analyze the financial impacts and the burden
of reporting that may be imposed on all small businesses that store
or maintain small quantities of materials classife~ under State
law as hazardous, which may properly be exempted from the operation
of State law and County regulatory process without any danger to
the public health.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Boar~ of Supervisors speci-
fically address the issue of the $75.00 minimum permit fee required
of all service stations and other small businesses under the
surveillance ordinance without regard to the actual time and man-
power costs that may be involved in performing inspections and to
immediately consider a significant reduction in the present flat
permit fee to a suggested level of $20 or to some other appropriate
rate that more adequately reflects the actual time and manpower
costs involved.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the City
of Chula Vista requests that the Board of Supervisors re-examine
its present policy of seeking ratification by each city of health
regulations mandated by the State which should have uniform applica-
tion throughout the County, both to ensure a proper protection of
the public health and to avoid the inequities of financial burden
that support for such programs place upon only those cities that
adopt the County regulations.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the City of
Chula Vista be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to
forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Board of
Supervisors.
Presented and approved as to form by
ADOPTED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, this l~th dOy of February
19 8;~ , by the following vole, to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen McCandliss, Scott, Cox, Malcolm. Hoore
NAYES: Councilmen None
ABSTAIN: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
M~y~e City of Chulo Vista
"' 'fi;ty Clerk
Sly, E OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) ss.
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, JENNIE M. FULASZ, CMC, CITY CLERK of the City of Chulo Vista, California,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is o full, true and correct copy of
RESOLUTION N0. 11173 ,and that the some has not been amended or repealed.
DATED
(seal} City Clerk
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