To: Board of Supervisors
From: John Kopchik, Director, Conservation and Development
Report Title: Amended 2024/2025 North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE the Amended 2024/2025 North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan (Exhibit A), identifying the activities authorized to be funded with Mitigation Fee revenue and respective funding allocations for the period of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, as recommended by the North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Joint Expenditure Planning Committee (NRMFC).
FISCAL IMPACT:
Mitigation Fee revenue is used to cover the costs incurred by the County and City for any activities (Strategies) authorized to be funded under the applicable North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan approved by the County and City of Richmond.
BACKGROUND:
New Expenditure Plans and/or modifications to existing Expenditure Plans (Amended Expenditure Plans) must be approved by both the County Board of Supervisors and Richmond City Council to officially authorize use of North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee (NRMF) funding. The purpose of this NRMF is to mitigate designated impacts resulting from the County and City approved land use permits for the expanded Bulk Material Processing Center located in North Richmond.
Summary of Changes to the 2024/2025 Expenditure Plan
At the NRMFC meeting on May 17, 2024, the Committee voted to recommend that the County Board of Supervisors and Richmond City Council approve a 2024/2025 Expenditure Plan that allocates funding from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025.
On May 22, 2026, the Committee voted to recommend an Amended 2024/2025 NRMF Expenditure Plan be brought before the County Board of Supervisors and Richmond City Council for approval.
The Amended 2024/2025 Expenditure Plan incorporated the following modification:
• Increasing Strategy 2 budget from $30,000 to $37,000
• Increasing Strategy 4.A budget from $40,000 to $50,000
All other strategies remained unchanged. Additional funding will be covered by available roll-over funding from prior Expenditure Plan cycles. The proposed changes are shown in Exhibit A.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Each new Expenditure Plan must receive final approval from the County Board of Supervisors and Richmond City Council. Expenditure Plans and any associated amendments recommended or approved by the NRMFC only take effect if/when approved by the Board of Supervisors and the Richmond City Council. Therefore, if the Amended 2024/2025 Expenditure Plan is not approved by the Board, the City of Richmond would not be able to receive reimbursement for additional costs incurred for the annual period that ended on June 30, 2025.