HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 070-1992RESOLUTION NO. 70-92
RESOLUTION APPROVING JOINT SWCE REDUCTION
AND RECYCLING ELEMENT FOR THE CITY
OF BURLINGAME
RESOLVED, by the CITY COUNCIL of the CITY OF BURLINGAME,
State of California, that
WHEREAS, the California Integrated Waste Management Act
of 1989 ("AB 93911) mandates that 25 percent (25%) of the waste
stream in every city and every county unincorporated area in
California be diverted from landfilling by 1995 and that this
diversion increase to 50 percent (50%) by 2000; and
WHEREAS, said AB 939 created a waste management hierarchy
which prioritizes waste management practices in the following
order; first, source reduction (producing less solid waste);
second, recycling and composting, and third, environmentally safe
transformation (incineration) and environmentally safe land
disposal; and
WHEREAS, said AB 939 requires each city and each county,
for the unincorporated area, to prepare and adopt a Source
Reduction and Recycling Element ("SRRE") which quantifies the
current level of solid waste diversion in the city or county
unincorporated area and describes the program, consistent with said
waste management hierarchy by said AB 939; and
WHEREAS, said AB 939 creates in each county a local task
force, constituted at the discretion of each county, to assist the
development of said SREEs and to review and comment on the SRREs of
the county and the cities of the county; and
WHEREAS, the local task force in San Mateo County is the
City/County Association of Governments ("C/CAG"); and
WHEREAS, said AB 939 allows cities and counties to work
cooperatively with each other for the purpose of preparing said
Source Reduction and Recycling Elements provided there is no
pooling of diversion credits among the cities and counties working
cooperatively and provided each city and county retains the
responsibilities and liabilities assigned to it by said AB 939; and
WHEREAS, San Mateo County and fifteen cities, Atherton,
Belmont, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, Foster City,
Half Moon Bay, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood
City, San Carlos, San Mateo and Woodside, have prepared a Joint
Source Reduction and Recycling Element; and
WHEREAS, said Joint Source Reduction and Recycling
Element quantifies the current level of solid waste diversion in
the City of Burlingame and describes the program, consistent with
said waste management hierarchy, which the City of Burlingame will
implement to achieve diversion rates mandated by said AB 939; and
WHEREAS, said Joint Source Reduction and Recycling
Element has been reviewed by the City/County Association of
Governments ("C/CAG") the Local Task Force for San Mateo County and
found to be acceptable.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND DETERMINED that
the Joint Source Reduction and Recycling Element prepared for
Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto,
Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Portola
Valley, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, Woodside and the
Unincorporated Areas of San Mateo County, Final Draft dated June
1992, is adopted as the Source Reducticya nd ecycling Element for
the City of Burlingame.
IW
I, JUDITH A. MALFATTI,/\City_--(�lerk of the City of
Burlingame, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was
introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the
3rd day of August 1992, and was adopted thereafter by
the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HARRISON, KNIGHT, O'MAHONY, PAGLIARO
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: LEMBI