SUBJECT/RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve the first amendment to the Recycling Services Agreement with Waste Management/Recycle America, L.L.C. (WM/RA); establish a blanket purchase order (contract) in the amount of $100,000 for the processing of the City’s single stream recycling commodity at the processing contractor’s facility in Tampa, FL through December 15, 2017, as provided in the City’s Code of Ordinances, Section 2.564(1)(e) Exceptions to Bid (impractical to bid) and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
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SUMMARY:
In December 2013, the Solid Waste/Recycling Department entered into a Recycling Services Agreement with WM/RA with automatic annual renewals. That agreement contained composition percentages and per ton processing fees that will now be altered by this amendment.
NOTE: Prior to the current agreement which is now being amended by this item, WM/RA was paying the City $15 per ton for the single stream recycling commodity delivered to their facility in Tampa. They could no longer pay that amount and required the current amendment.
APPROPRIATION CODE AND AMOUNT:
Operating Funds are available in cost code 426-02043-530300 Other Contractual Services to fund this contract.