AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to enter into a contract with Rabanco, Ltd. to provide recycling processing services for the City of Seattle; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Please read item 31. The Report of the Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item 31 Council Bill 118396. An ordinance authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to enter into a contract with Banco Ltd to provide recycling processing services for the City of Seattle and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts. The committee recommends the Council bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember Bagshaw. Thank you very much. This action will authorize Seattle Public Utilities to execute a new recycling contract. And by way of background, the City of Seattle contracts with a private entity to process our waste stream recycling. And right now, we recycle 56.2% of all of the waste that we generate. And we currently have a recycling processing contract with Republic Services, and that began in April of 2009 and extends until next year. But Seattle Public Utilities went out and looked at whether or not they could have a more competitive contract. And I want to say thank you to my colleague, Councilmember Harrell, because both of us agree that as they go out looking for a new contract, we wanted to make sure that the employees were well cared for. And indeed, that became part of the requirements of the contract. So we were looking for the most advantageous contract for the city, the most money that we could get from our recycling. But we also wanted to make sure that the employees were giving a livable wage and that they continued to have permanent employee employment opportunities as well as good benefits. So SPP went out for bid. They received two responsive proposals from Republic Services and Recology. Both were competitive. We are recommending a new five year agreement proceed. It will be effective a year from now. April 26 ending in March 20, March of 2021, with two three year options to renew at the city's own decision making. So the agreement will continue to process all of our current recycling materials, including paper, plastics, metals and glass. The committee recommends do pass because ratepayers are expected to save over a million and a half dollars by doing this. And we say thank you to Tim Krul, who's here in the audience with us from Seattle Public Utilities, as well as Hans Van Dusen, who is also very responsive to our concerns. Thank you. Questions. Comments. Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Okamoto I Rasmussen so want. I. Back shot I garden Harrell Lakota I O'Brien I am president Burgess I and I have in favor and and opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Report of the Transportation Committee. Please read item 32.