Title
2022 Waste ReSources Management Plan Update
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Receive a briefing on the Waste ReSources Management Plan Update and provide feedback.
Report
Issue:
Whether to receive a briefing about the status of the Waste ReSources Management Plan Update Project.
Staff Contact:
Ron Jones, Senior Planner, Public Works Waste ReSources, 360.753.8509
Presenter(s):
Ron Jones, Senior Planner, Public Works Waste ReSources
Gary Franks, Director, Public Works Waste ReSources
Background and Analysis:
The City’s Waste ReSources Management Plan (WRP) provides strategic direction for the utility’s solid waste collection, education, and outreach programs.
The utility is guided by a Zero Waste Vision (2006 Resolution), which directed the utility to draft its first 6-year master plan in 2008, and then updated in 2015. The City of Olympia fulfills Washington State’s regulatory requirement by being a signatory to the Thurston County Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan. The County Plan addresses the solid waste disposal and planning needs for the entire County.
2015 Plan accomplishments include installing two shared compactors in downtown Olympia, a new recycling contract for transload/hauling and processing, routing software that helped expand one-side of road collection and other efficiencies, accommodated growth without adding trucks and drivers, removal of glass from residential and multi-family commingled recycling, and a recycle contamination reduction program, just to name a few.
Over the past year, the utility has been working on its 2022 Waste ReSources Management Plan update. The utility previously met with and briefed the City’s Utility Advisory Committee on three occasions (May and June of 2021, and again on May 5, 2022). Staff also met with the Coalition of Neighborhoods in February 2022.
Topics that have been covered in previous meetings include:
• Plan scoping
• Public process and schedule
• Key issues and consultant research areas including:
o Education and Outreach program review and recommendations to include cultural and linguistic diversity
o Development standards for solid waste
o Electrified fleet alternatives
o Connection to climate mitigation and greenhouse gas emissions
o Cost of Service study and multi-year rates
At the May 19, 2022 Land-use and Environment committee meeting, staff will present the goals and key policy considerations the plan update will address. Staff will be seeking feedback.
Neighborhood/Community Interests (if known):
The utility provides essential garbage, recycle, organics collection, and educational services to the community.
Options:
1. Receive the briefing.
2. Do not receive the briefing.
3. Receive the briefing at another time.
Financial Impact:
None at this time. The utility is using the services of a financial consultant to update the financial strategy for the utility, by conducting cost of service, capital needs, and corresponding rates, and multi-year rate projections.
Attachments:
2015 Waste ReSources Plan Link
Waste ReSources Management Plan Summary Document