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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 08/28/1990UTILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Port Angeles, Washington August 28, 1990 I CALL TO ORDER Chairman Hallett called the meeting to order at 3:35 P.M. II ROLL CALL Members Present: Jim Hallett, Mike Lemon, Dick Wight, Thomas Hunt, Jeff Rosbach Members Absent: None Staff Present: Jeff Pomeranz, Craig Knutson, Grant Beck, Jack Pittis, Ken Ridout, Bob Jones, Gary Leaf, Tim Smith. III APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING The minutes of July 23, 1990, were approved as written. IV DISCUSSION ITEMS A. Presentation - Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Grayden Hayward, Vice President for the Environment from Trans Mountain Pipeline Corporation; Dean Katz, Northwest Strategies for Trans Mountain; and Chuck Blumenfeld of Bogle & Gates for Trans Mountain, gave a brief presentation of the Trans Mountain project. Mr. Hayward is the project manager for the project. Mr. Hayward explained the existing pipeline systems which Trans Mountain owns in the United States and Canada. He further explained that his company was asked by the B. C. government to investigate the possibility of reducing oil spills in the Sound by development of an oil pipeline. They, therefore, resurrected the Low Point Terminal Project and pipeline. It was mentioned that the project was designed to eliminate most of the tankers which are currently going into Puget Sound and replacing that traffic with an oil pipeline. The pipeline would involve an inbound 36" diameter pipeline and a 24" diameter outbound pipeline. Their current schedule is to complete an environmental risk assessment in October, 1990, and if the project is favorable, to begin the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council permit process in January, 1991. UTILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE August 28, 1990 Page 2 B. Presentation by A1 Hare - Recycling Issues A1 Hare, who owns and operates Northwest Technical Industries, and also are owners of P.A.R.T, took a few minutes to explain his views on recycling. He further provided background to the Utility Advisory Committee members with regard to current recycling markets and trends in the recycling industry. B. 1. Trip to BPA Information Meeting Gary Leaf of the Light Department asked if any Utility Advisory Committee members would like to attend the Bonneville Power Administration information meetings on either September 10th or llth with the Light Director. All Utility Advisory Committee members have conflicts on those dates. C. Consideration of Request for Proposals "Curbside Recycling" Copies of the recycling proposals were transmitted to Utility Advisory Committee members for their review. The purpose of this discussion was to receive input from Committee members with regard to the make-up of the written proposal to submit to prospective bidders. The major issues discussed were as follows: The City should obtain copies of corporate documents as a part of the proposal so the City knows who has the authorization from the corporation for signing the bids. We should relax the contract specifications, especially dealing with vehicles, types of reports, and clean-up stations so the prospective bidders are not overly restricted. We should have a bid that involves a lump sum, with the City receiving 25% of the revenue from the sale of recycled materials. Yard waste should be delivered to the City Landfill. There was consensus that the recycling program should be a voluntary program initially. We should provide the bins to the customer for the recycling materials and give the customers a list of the appropriate methods of disposing of yard waste which will be picked up. In addition, we should include ledger paper recycling Downtown as a part of the program. We will provide the oppor- tunity for the recycling contractor to negotiate with commercial and industrial customers to recycle their materials, but the recycling contractor should UTILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE August 28, 1990 Page 3 provide a fee schedule to the City Council for review and approval. Rather than be as specific in the specifications with regard to number of years of experience, we should include that the contractor shall have a proven ability in operating his business and that the preferred experience is from three to five years. We should not give the contractor an exclusive right to all recycling materials within the City, so we can still have non-profit organizations conducting recycling efforts in the City. We should incor- porate restricting the contractor's employees from using loud music on radios. The Committee suggested that the Public Works Director and the city Manager get together to discuss the need for a recycling coordinator. It was suggested that the Recycling Committee could be invited to future Utility Advisory Committee meetings involving recycling. Some recognition should be provided to the Com- mittee at the time the contract is awarded, due to their efforts in getting us here. It is also possible that Com- mittee could be very helpful in developing public relations materials. It was suggested that we be more specific in specifying the containers to be used for recycling. We should probably just specify the type of container to be used or an approved equal, rather than the current language. D. Review of Roll-Off Truck Bids Public Works Director Pittis and Solid Waste Superintendent Jones explained that the bids received for a new vehicle were approximately $104,000, while the used equipment was approxi- mately $52,000. It was mentioned that the purpose of the roll-off vehicle was to service containers solely at the Landfill, but that a new rig would be needed if we were to expand roll-off service to other areas of the City that are currently served by Olympic Disposal. It was further mentioned that the Public Works Department does not wish to be in competition with private industry but that we had received numerous requests from businesses wanting the City to get into the roll-off business. A report will go to the whole Council regarding the used equipment after Equipment Rental Superintendent Hutchison inspects the used equipment. UTILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE August 28, 1990 Page 4 Eo Consideration of Value Engineering Study for Design of the Wastewater Treatment Plant A copy of a summary of the Value Engineering Report was provided to Utility Advisory Committee members for information. V ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 P.M. Secret~ --~ - - -- PW.314