ADOPTED -
FEBRUARY 8, 2000Agenda Item No. 7
Introduced by the Human Services and Finance Committees of the:
INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
RESOLUTION FOR PRESENTATION OF DRAFT
INGHAM COUNTY SOLID WASTE PLAN FIVE YEAR UPDATE AND REFERRAL
TO PLANNING COMMITTEE WITH OBJECTIONS
RESOLUTION #00-023
WHEREAS, the Michigan Legislature passed Public Act 451 Part 115 of 1994 requiring each county in the State of Michigan to prepare a plan for the management of Solid Waste generated in the County; and
WHEREAS, the Act provides that the Solid Waste Plan be updated on a five year basis and for the formation of a specifically constituted committee to prepare such an update; and
WHEREAS, Ingham County appointed a planning committee naming Pat Lindemann Ingham County Drain Commissioner as county government representative to that committee; and
WHEREAS, the five year update of the plan has been submitted to the Ingham County Board of Commissioners for approval; and
WHEREAS, as a result of a review of the five year update, the Ingham County Board of Commissioners does not approve the plan as submitted; and
WHEREAS, the five year update shall be returned to the Solid Waste Planning Committee along with a statement of objections to the plan.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorize the return of the five year update of the Solid Waste Plan to the Planning Committee along with a statement of objections to the plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, within thirty days after receipt, the planning committee shall review the objections and shall return the plan with its recommendations.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that objections are being forwarded to the Planning Committee with recommended amendments for resubmission to the Ingham County Board of Commissioners.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Solid Waste Plan could be returned to the Planning Committee should additional objections to the Plan be developed as the result of review by the Board of Commissioners.
HUMAN SERVICES: Yeas: Czarnecki, Smiley, Grebner, Schmidt, Severino
Nays: None Absent: None Approved 1/24/00
FINANCE: Yeas: Bernero, Grebner, Czarnecki, McDonald, Schafer, Juall
Nays: None Absent: Minter Approved 2/02/00
ADOPTED - FEBRUARY 8, 2000
Agenda Item No. 7
(Attachment)
INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
STATEMENT OF OBJECTIONS TO SOLID WASTE PLAN 2000 UPDATE
2) County operated or funded efforts should be focused on items of county-wide impact - i.e. regulation and education.
3) Solid waste programs - such as recycling, should be operated and funded on a municipal or private basis, unless such programs can be operated more efficiently on a county-wide basis. (Rural recycling would not meet this test) .
4) Consideration of funding for county-wide activities should include fees related to the generation, pick-up, or disposal of waste, as well as general fund support.
5) In looking at fees, consideration could be given to fees imposed as a condition of accepting (either by hauler or a landfill) Ingham waste.
6) The Solid Waste Planning Committee should consider the idea of a disposal fee levied on solid waste at the solid waste disposal facility with the funds generated from this disposal fee being rebated to the municipality from where it came if that municipality provides site based recycling or
comprehensive recycling programs or where no such program is provided, used by the County to defray the cost of providing site-based recycling services.In addition, the Plans format should be revised to comport with Ingham County legal counsel and Michigan DEQ recommendations.
The Solid Waste Planning Committee should also discuss with the Ingham County Purchasing & Properties Department any new recommendations for county purchasing requirements contained within the plan for their input prior to a revised Solid Waste Plan update being presented to the County for adoption.
Time frame: The Board of Commissioners will act upon this resolution on February 8, 2000. Thirty days from that date would be March 9, 2000. The BOC schedule to act on the revised plan would then be:
Human Services Committee March 20, 2000
Finance Committee March 22, 2000
Board of Commissioners March 28, 2000