A MOTION acknowledging receipt of a 2017 Solid Waste System Tonnage Report prepared in accordance with the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409, Section 107, Proviso P2.
By your vote. You have. We have passed proposed motion number 2018 0062 of the do pass recommendation. That is to accept the report and it will not be able to consent calendar. So I'll move on to the last item on our agenda today, which is proposed motion number 2017 0505. It's another solid waste motion, this one accepting a report regarding system tonnage because the county Cedar Hills Land Regional Landfill is nearing its capacity. As we all have discussed here many times, it's important to carefully monitor the tonnage that we're disposing and study options for long term waste disposal. As part of that effort, the Council adopted a proviso, you will recall, in the 2017 2018 budget that required two reports from the Solid Waste Division. The first, which we will hear about today, is on 2017 system tonnage. The second is due in June on long term options for the landfill. So once again, we have with us Mary Bergeron and Tara Rose to help us with a briefing. Thank you, Madam Chair. Mary Bergen on from the council staff, for the record, and you have introduced the council's rationale for this proviso. As you noted, this system tonnage report from 2017 is the first of two reports that will be required on this topic. And if you will move ahead to page 155 in your packet, I will share the results of the analysis that the division did to prepare this report. What they did because this report was due on December 1st of last year, this report provides actual tonnage figures from January through August and then estimates for the remainder of the year. And when you see the second report, which is coming in June, you'll see actuals for the entire year. I will note first that in preparing to do this report, the Solid Waste Division had prepared tonnage estimates through the year 2036 and they had presented those to you back. At the same time, you adopted these provisos when you were adopting the solid waste rate. These and if you look on page 156, you can see a table that outlines what the projections were for each year. And if you look at the shaded row 2017, you'll see that the division was estimating about 851,000 tons last year. They had estimated, if you look, a little bit of a decrease from the year before because of the reopening of the city of Seattle's North Transfer Station and Recycling Center, which they estimated would take some of the load off the county stations. If you then jump to the bottom of page 157 and look at the actual results that the solid waste division has transmitted, you will note that tonnage, in fact increased 10% above those projections. So 932,000 tons rather than the 851,000 that were projected. This has implications for the landfill capacity estimates that this additional 81,000 tons will shorten the landfill life by about a month. And moving on to the next page. Also has operational impacts because this additional tonnage was about 230 more tonnes of waste per day that were transported to the landfill than had been estimated. That resulted in about 3700 additional roundtrips between the transfer stations and the landfills last year. The division has noted that they have been addressing these operational impacts through overtime to date, but may be coming back to the Council for additional appropriation or possibly even FTE authority. And finally, I'll note that this additional tonnage resulted in about $11 million in additional revenue above and beyond what had been forecasted for last year. And the division notes in that case that they recognized they don't have appropriation authority to use that additional revenue and expect they may be coming to the Council through one of the supplemental budget ordinances. I will close by noting that the additional unanticipated tonnage for last year will be addressed in more detail. In the second of the two provides a report to the one that will be coming to in June that will also include more information about the landfill. And I think this does provide a good segue way for the Council to your upcoming discussions and deliberations on the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan, a draft plan of which was released last week. And the executive's recommended plan is anticipated to come to the council probably mid this year. So this kind of sets, I think, the ground for what you will be looking at. And with that, Madam Chair, that concludes my staff report. Okay. Thank you very much. Councilmember Lambert has a question. Thank you. So help me on these charts. So special waste is going to go from 1500 to 2500 in approximately 20 years. What is changing that? That is going to be so substantially the same that that's going to happen because it increased population. So I think we've got staff from the division here and I think they might be best to answer that question. I had been focusing mostly on the total column and focusing mostly on 2017 things. That was the topic of this report. And talk about that when we meet next. And the same thing in the next column, going from 1300 and 13,500 in yard waste down to 16. But, you know, lots of people are doing rock gardens and other kinds of gardens so that there aren't as many yard ways. So we'll add that to our list next time we talk. All right. Thank you. Okay. So one of thing, please. Anything is I. I just saw and something that was written that that a clean wood is no longer going to be accepted at the house and transfer station. And I didn't know that was happening until it apparently happened. So I'd like to talk about how that happened, and I'm not really happy about it. So thank you. Okay. I don't know if we do have executive staff here. I don't know if they want to come forward and say a few words before we go ahead and accept the report. But yeah, only if you want to get in and you're not required. If you have a question that we'd like to. Hear enough. I do have one question, and that is when this projection comes in a significant marginal but significant amount higher, this actual annual tonnage comes in at this level higher. And it says that that would that would mean the capacity of the Cedar Hills landfill be reached about one month sooner. Does that assume that the rest of the projection comes in as previously projected, or do we now reset the rest of the projection and say even if things increase at a rate similar to what we assumed before, but now we're up to 932, we're starting with a different base. Is that how you get to one month? I mean, I know that this is we're prejudging the question of the next report, but it seems to me that that seems odd that that much of a change to the curve would result in such a small impact to the life of the landfill. The Please Make Morehead King County Solid Waste Strategy Communications and Performance Manager. This provider was very specifically focused on 2017. And so the one month change in the landfill. Life is based on the change in tonnage for 719 2017 only. And it's the second proviso that speaks to the broader change in the overall projection. Manage and so forth. Okay. Once again before us, today is just the motion to accept the report, and that's motion number 2017 0505. If there's no further discussion, I would entertain a motion. Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to propose a proposed motion 2017 0505 with a do pass recommendation. All right, it's been moved. Any comments or questions saying nonetheless the clerk to please call the roll. Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember Dombrowski. Councilmember Dunn. Councilmember Gossett. Council Member. Cole Wells. Council Member. Member. High Council Member McDermott. High Council member of the Grove Council. Member of one right bar. Madam Chair. Hi, Madam Chair. The vote is six eyes. No nos. All right, by your vote, we have approved proposed motion number 2017, dash 0505 with a do pass recommendation. This one also, I think should be on the regular course along with the other one. And that brings us to the end of our agenda today. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, February 7th, when we anticipate continuing our work on the King County Code, changes to make it before gender neutral, and receiving a briefing about the Hearst Supreme Court decision and for cultures budget and.