HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 93-02RESOLUTION NO. 93-02
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DIAMOND BAR, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING THE
LOS ANGELES COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
ACTION PLAN
A. Recitals.
(i) The California Integrated Waste Management Act of
1989, also known as AB 939, requires the City to prepare, adopt,
and implement a Source Reduction and Recycling Element (SRRE)
which identifies how the City will divert, through a combination
of source reduction, recycling, and composting programs, 25% of
solid wastes from landfill disposal by 1995, and 50% by the year
2000; and
(ii) The Act also requires the City to prepare a solid
waste facility capacity component as part of the Source Reduction
and Recycling Element; and
(iii) The solid waste facility component must identify
the current and future disposal capacity that will be needed to
accommodate all of the solid waste that is generated within the
City over a 15 -year period; and
(iv) If the City does not show adequate capacity for
its disposal needs, the State may reject the City's Source
Reduction and Recycling Element and, after conducting a public
hearing, may impose administrative civil penalties of not more
than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per day for failure to submit
an adequate plan; and
(v) The City does not have adequate disposal capacity
to accommodate its waste disposal needs; and
(vi) The City has not secured an export agreement with
any jurisdiction or solid waste enterprise to meet its disposal
needs; and
(vii) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and
the Board of Directors of the County Sanitation Districts of Los
Angeles County have heretofore adopted a Solid Waste Management
Action Plan to facilitate regional planning measures on solid
waste management problems facing the County; and
(viii) The County's Solid Waste Management Action Plan
establishes a comprehensive countywide strategy of managing solid
waste and of providing 50 years of disposal capacity through a
reasonable balance of public and private operations and solid
waste disposal facilities, including a regional public landfill
system; and
(ix) The City can fulfill the disposal capacity
requirements imposed under state law by formally supporting the
County's Solid Waste Management Action Plan.
B. Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Diamond
Bar does hereby find, determine and resolve as follows:
1. In all respects as set forth in the Recitals, Part
A. of this Resolution.
2. That the comprehensive strategy established by the
Los Angeles County Solid Waste Management Action Plan is
necessary to provide safe and reliable disposal capacity for
solid waste generated within the City both now and into the _
future.
3. The City of Diamond Bar does hereby support the
County's Solid Waste Management Action Plan and requests the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Board of Directors of the
County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County to reaffirm
their commitment to resolving the County's waste disposal crisis.
4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Resolution.
PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 2nd day of
February , 1993.
Mayo
I, LYNDA BURGESS, City Clerk of the City of Diamond
Bar, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was passed,
adopted and approved at a regular meeting of the City Council of
the City of Diamond Bar held on the 2nd day of February, 1993, by
the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:Forbing, MacBride, Werner,
Mayor Pro Tem Papen, Mayor Miller
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS:None
ABSTAINED: COUNCIL MEMBERS:None
ATTES!
Lynda Burgess, city Clerk
City of Diamond Bar
