City of Milwaukee - File #: 131796

• File #: 131796
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/2/2014
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 4/22/2014
• Title: Substitute resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a contract with Resource Recovery Systems, LLC, doing business as ReCommunity, for the construction and operation of a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in partnership with Waukesha County, and establishing an Equipment Reserve Fund.
• Sponsors: ALD. BAUMAN
• Indexes: CONTRACTS, RECYCLING

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/24/2014	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
4/22/2014	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:0
4/9/2014	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	5:0
4/4/2014	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/2/2014	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
131796
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
121495
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
Substitute resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a contract with Resource Recovery Systems, LLC, doing business as ReCommunity, for the construction and operation of a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in partnership with Waukesha County, and establishing an Equipment Reserve Fund.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a contract with Resource Recovery Systems, LLC, doing business as Recommunity, for the reconstruction and operation of a Material Resource Facility in partnership with Waukesha County.

The resolution also directs the City Comptroller to establish an Equipment Reserve Fund as set forth in the intergovernmental cooperation agreement.
Body:
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee and Waukesha County each owns a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) that historically has been operated under private contract, and has processed similar annual quantities of recyclables; and

Whereas, The existing processing systems in both the City of Milwaukee’s MRF and Waukesha County’s MRF have reached or exceeded their useful design life; and

Whereas, Between 2007 and 2012, a series of studies were completed by both the City of Milwaukee and Waukesha County to determine the best path for future MRF updates or alternative arrangements as needed to adopt to changing recycling collection and processing systems; and

Whereas, Due to a number of program efficiency advantages that single-stream recycling has over dual-stream recycling, the above-noted studies have strongly recommended that both the City of Milwaukee and Waukesha County implement a single-stream recycling system; and

Whereas, The Recycling Task Force, commissioned by the Common Council in 2009, recommended in its final report to implement single-stream collection and processing of recyclables and to investigate in detail using the City’s MRF building as either ...