Drafter
Clerk 10/28/2005
Title
A MOTION approving the Addendum to Milestone Report #2, Application of Criterion 17 to Five Urban Transfer Stations.
Body
WHEREAS, King County has adopted Ordinances 14971 and 15218 relating to the timing for planning for waste export and annually reporting the solid waste division's progress toward meeting objectives identified in the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan, and
WHEREAS, Ordinances 14971 and 15218 require the development of four milestone reports leading up to the transmittal of the Waste Export System Plan, and
WHEREAS, the first milestone report on the Transfer System Level of Service Evaluation Criteria and Standards, approved by the King County council by Motion 12134, identified nineteen criteria for evaluating five of six existing urban King County transfer stations, and
WHEREAS, the second milestone report on the Analysis of Systems Needs and Capacity, approved by the King County council by Motion 12055, applied criteria 1 through 16 to the five existing urban transfer stations, and
WHEREAS, criteria 18 and 19 will be addressed in the fourth milestone report - Preliminary Transfer and Transport Facility Options, and Estimated System Costs, Rate Impacts and Financial Policy Assumptions, and
WHEREAS, the metropolitan solid waste management advisory committee ("MSWMAC") reviewed and made recommendations on the second milestone report, and
WHEREAS, MSWMAC decided that additional time would be needed for MSWMAC to adequately consider and provide recommendations on the application of Criterion 17 - Local and Regional Considerations, to the five urban transfer stations, and
WHEREAS, MSWMAC requested that the solid waste division transmit the second milestone report to the county council for approval without applying Criterion 17, and
WHEREAS, MSWMAC has developed a set of objective subcriteria to address Criterion 17 - Local and Regional Considerations as an addendum to the second milesto...
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