To: Board of Supervisors
From: John Kopchik, Director, Conservation and Development
Report Title: Amendment to the Interagency Agreement between City of Richmond and County for Joint Administration of North Richmond Mitigation Fee Funding
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Conservation and Development Director, or designee, to execute an amendment to the Interagency Agreement with the City of Richmond (City), effective September 19, 2023, to increase the payment limit by $360,000 to a new payment limit of $835,000 and extend the term from September 30, 2023, to September 30, 2026, to facilitate City's continued use of jointly-administered North Richmond Waste & Recovery Mitigation Fee (NRMF) funding to co-staff the NRMF Committee and implement services and programs authorized in the City/County-approved expenditure plans.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no impact to the General Fund. Interagency Agreement costs will be funded with NRMF revenue, which is solely received by the County but jointly administered by the City and County in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City and County.
BACKGROUND:
The NRMF was established by the City and County in 2004. This fee was originally identified as a mitigation measure in an Environmental Impact Report for the Bulk Material Processing Center (BMPC) in North Richmond as a means of addressing the impacts of illegal dumping as a result of the expansion of the BMPC. The requirement to collect this Mitigation Fee is a condition of approval in the use permits issued by the City and County, which allowed Republic Services to expand their waste processing operations at the BMPC, located at the closed West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill site in North Richmond. Since 2006, this Mitigation Fee has been collected on a per ton basis and paid monthly, directly, to the County.
The City and County entered into an MOU in 2004 agreeing to establish a City/County Committee, known as the North Richmond Wast...
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