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Environmental Management Department recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign Funding Agreement 9514 with the Clean Tahoe Program to provide litter abatement services in the Lake Tahoe Basin, with a not-to-exceed amount of $82,000 and retroactive to a term beginning April 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.
FUNDING: DTOT - 35%, Solid Waste Funds - 65%.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Clean Tahoe began in 1988, and by 1989, began receiving parcel fees assessed on the County tax rolls in the South Lake Tahoe Basin in exchange for litter pick-up services. The Board has passed an annual Resolution confirming pre-existing benefit assessments that have been collected on the County Tax rolls since the late 1980s in the same amounts with no increase over prior fiscal years for the County portion of the Lake Tahoe Basin, in part, to fund programs, including but not limited to solid waste diversion within County Service Area 10, Zone C to comply with the state-mandated statutory requirements.
In addition to parcel fees, and as authorized by Board Resolution No. 218-99, Clean Tahoe is also funded by a surcharge of fifteen cents ($0.15) per month on each refuse account serviced by South Tahoe Refuse, Inc. in the unincorporated area of the Lake Tahoe Basin.
In addition to the agreement amount of $53,000, in Fiscal Year 2023-24, the Board approved $29,000 in Discretionary Transient Occupancy Tax for a future capital purchase, to be fulfilled by the expiration date of this new agreement.
The proposed funding agreement 9514 with the Clean Tahoe Program will enhance the visual quality of the Lake Tahoe environment through community education, citizen involvement, and litter and nuisance abatement.
ALTERNATIVES
The Board could choose not to approve Funding Agreement 9514, requiring the Environmental Management Department to perform the services. This would require the addition of permanent staff to perform the services under this agreement.
PRIOR BOARD ACTION
See Discussion/Background above.
OTHER DEPARTMENT / AGENCY INVOLVEMENT
County Counsel has approved the proposed Agreement.
CAO RECOMMENDATION
Approve as recommended.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
There is no change to Net County Costs associated with this Agreement. Funding is obtained through the annual collection of parcel fees.
CLERK OF THE BOARD FOLLOW UP ACTIONS
1) Clerk of the Board will obtain the Chair's signature on two (2) originals of the Agreement; and
2) Clerk of the Board will forward one (1) fully executed original Agreement to the Chief Administrative Office, Contracts and Procurement Unit, for further processing.
STRATEGIC PLAN COMPONENT
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CONTACT
Jeffrey Warren, REHS
Director
Environmental Management Department