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Community Development Services, Environmental Management Department, advising the Board of the denial by the City of Placerville and the El Dorado Hills Community Services District of the County’s request to participate in the formation of a solid waste West Slope Joint Powers Authority, and recommending the Board direct the Environmental Management Department to:
1) Continue implementing the County’s Solid Waste Management Plan and its associated Action Plan strategies to the greatest extent feasible;
2) Suspend the Action Plan formation strategy at this time; and
3) Bring said formation strategy back to the Board for reconsideration at the next update of both Plans anticipated in 2022.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Community Development Services, Environmental Management Department, advising the Board of the denial by the City of Placerville and the El Dorado Hills Community Services District of the County’s request to participate in the formation of a solid waste West Slope Joint Powers Authority, and recommending the Board direct the Environmental Management Department to:
1) Continue implementing the County’s Solid Waste Management Plan and its associated Action Plan strategies to the greatest extent feasible;
2) Suspend the Action Plan formation strategy at this time; and
3) Bring said formation strategy back to the Board for reconsideration at the next update of both Plans anticipated in 2022.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On January 31, 2012 (Item 11), the Board approved the County-wide Solid Waste Management Plan (Management Plan). The goal of the Management Plan is to achieve a 75 percent diversion of solid waste from landfilling by the year 2020, and to provide a focused, coordinated, and strategic approach to the County’s future integrated waste management system through the year 2040. The Management Plan contains 42 solid waste related strategies spread throughout three phases, near-term (2012-2016), intermediate-term (2017-2025),...
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