- Elizabeth Larson
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Council to get update on CalRecycle compliance order, suicide prevention efforts
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – This week the city council will get updates on its waste stream compliance order from the state and also hear about new efforts to address suicide rates in the county.
The council will meet for a closed session to discuss a potential property acquisition at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive, before the open session begins at 6 p.m.
On the consent agenda – items usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are items including the Feb. 14 meeting minutes, the disbursement check list, consideration of an application for participation in the state and federal surplus property program, receipt of North Coast Opportunities' Head Start Child Development Program’s 2011-2012 Annual Report, and consideration of a contract amendment with Robert Galusha for engineering special projects through Dec. 31, 2013.
At the beginning of the meeting the council will present proclamations recognizing March as March for Meals Month and Suicide Awareness Month.
Among the agenda's business items, the council will receive a presentation by the Family Service Agency on the North Bay Suicide Prevention Project.
The council also will receive an annual report from Clearlake Waste Solutions and get an update on the cancellation of the compliance order placed on the city by the California Department of Resources and Recycling, or CalRecycle.
A Feb. 20 letter notified city officials that CalRecycle met this month and decided the city had met the terms of the compliance order and was no longer subject to administrative penalties.
CalRecycle issued the compliance order against the city on Feb. 24, 2009, “based on the City’s failure to adequately implement its diversion programs,” according to a background report for the Feb. 19 meeting at which CalRecycle finally lifted the order.
The city received time extensions to meet the requirements and, in addition, updated its franchise agreement with Clearlake Waste Solutions in August 2011. The CalRecycle report noted, “The agreement enhanced the services provided by the hauler, and increased overall effectiveness of all waste diversion programs.”
The report to the city from Clearlake Waste Solutions noted that tons of trash from the city have dropped from 5,569 tons in 2009 to 4,469 tons last year, with recycling tonnage rising from 1,328 in 2009 to 1,465 in 2013.
In that three-year period green waste recycling increased from 1,062 tons to 1,341 tons, and overall recovery increased from 30 percent o 39 percent of the waste stream, the report showed.
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