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File Number: 14-153 <br />seventeen member agencies, which include the County, fourteen cities, and two sanitary <br />districts that provide refuse and recycling collection services. The current voting structure is <br />weighted; whereby the City of Oakland has three votes, the County has two votes, and all <br />other members have one vote. <br />The Alameda County Household Hazardous Waste Program supports four drop -off facilities <br />located in Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, and Oakland, and satellite collection of household <br />batteries and fluorescent lights from hardware stores and other public locations. The Fremont <br />facility is operated by a contractor; the other three facilities are operated by County staff . <br />Oversight and funding responsibility for the program resides with the ACWMA . The program <br />is currently funded by a $2.15 per ton fee on all disposed waste delivered to landfills in the <br />County. Revenues and expenditures for the program are managed through a County trust, but <br />the positive balance is steadily declining as revenues decrease (disposal tonnage is <br />decreasing due to the increase in materials diverted/recycled). The current budget for the <br />program is $3.95 million per year and the current revenue is $2 million per year. Thus, current <br />program levels are unsustainable. <br />Analysis <br />The ACWMA board and its committees discussed options for the future of the program <br />between April and July 2013, selected a “Proposed System Expansion Option” as the <br />preferred option, and directed StopWaste staff to hold community meetings in October to get <br />input on the option, and a proposed new annual fee to be placed on residential property tax <br />bills to fund the option. The Proposed System Expansion Option is intended to increase <br />participation, convenience, equity among member agencies, and long-term system <br />efficiencies. The Proposed System Expansion Option, as well as the current program level <br />and a third “Austerity” measure were evaluated by a private consulting firm and described in <br />the attached HHW Program Design and Funding - Evaluation of Future Program Options. <br />The differences between the current and proposed service levels are summarized below . <br />Current Service Levels <br />·Serves 45,000 households and collects 1,443 tons per year; <br />·Oakland and Fremont facilities are open every week, and Hayward and Livermore facilities <br />are open on an alternating weekly schedule; <br />·Oakland, Hayward and Livermore facilities are open 4 hours per day and the Fremont <br />facility is open 5.5 hours on weekdays and 8 hours on Saturdays; <br />·Provides 40 monthly household days and 10 monthly business days, including drop-in <br />days; and <br />·Provides 399 annual household days and 124 annual business days. <br />Proposed System Expansion Option <br />·Serves 72,000 households + 6,000 households for one-day events and collects 2,501 tons <br />per year; <br />·Oakland and Fremont facilities are open Wednesday through Saturday , and Hayward and <br />Livermore facilities are open Friday and Saturday; <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 4/16/2014