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Environmental Management Department recommending the Board:
1) Provide conceptual approval for a new agreement with Clean Tahoe Program for solid waste diversion in the unincorporated area of South Lake Tahoe in the proposed annual amount of approximately $53,000; and
2) Direct staff to return to the Board with an amended agreement by the end of March 2025.
FUNDING: County Service Area 10, Zone C Parcel Fees (No Federal Funds) (100%).
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Clean Tahoe began servicing the Lake Tahoe area in 1988 and began receiving a portion of Zone C parcel fees assessed on County Tax roll CSA 10 in exchange for solid waste diversion service by 1989. Clean Tahoe has been receiving approximately $29,000 annually from these taxes from El Dorado County.
In CSA 10, Zone C a $6 per Equivalent Dwelling Unit (EDU) parcel tax is collected. 50% of the tax ($3/EDU) funds the Clean Tahoe Program agreement, and the remaining 50% ($3/EDU) funds South Lake Tahoe Solid Waste program activities such as the Integrated Waste Management Plan (AB 939), State mandated solid waste diversion initiatives, administering solid waste contracts and franchise agreements, implements and enforces the Construction and Demolition Debris Ordinance, Bear Proof Garbage Can Requirement Ordinance, and Solid Waste Management Ordinance activities.
Since 1988, the agreement with the Clean Tahoe Program has remained at the same amount. The conceptual approval is to draft a new agreement that will provide for the pass through of the entire amount of the tax collected minus an administrative fee that the Auditor Controller charges to administer the tax. The average collection of taxes after the Auditors fee is $53,378. The scope of the agreement will also be updated to reflect current operations of Clean Tahoe.
With the proposed agreement, Environmental Management will use Solid Waste fund balance to backfill the current $3/EDU from the parcel tax collected for the County’s activities ...
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