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Resolution to Provide Direction to the City Administrator on the Provision of Solid Waste Services
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Whereas, The guiding principles for Ann Arbor’s solid waste program focus on providing services that are cost-efficient and customer-friendly;
Whereas, City staff issued RFP (Request for Proposal) No. 18-04 to procure outside resources needed to develop the Solid Waste Resource Management Plan (2019-2023), including funding and program recommendations, coordinated through the Environmental Commission and engaging the wider community;
Whereas, City Council Resolution R-18-138 to fund a Solid Waste Resource Management Plan for the period from 2019 to 2023 is expected to result in a finished plan in December 2019;
Whereas, City staff represented by AFSCME Local 369 currently perform solid waste collection services;
Whereas, By Resolution R-18-194, dated May 21, 2018, the City Council directed the City Administrator “to cease all actions that further any plan to privatize for solid waste services currently performed by city staff”;
Whereas, By resolution dated May 21, 2018, the City Council proclaimed “its opposition to privatization for solid waste services not currently performed by an outside contractor’; and
Whereas, By memorandum dated October 7, 2019, the City Administrator announced the intention to group solid waste collection in the downtown area and for multi-family units and commercial establishments for bid by private firms with the goal to start the procurement process in October 2019;
RESOLVED, That City Council directs the City Administrator to cease all actions that further any plan to privatize solid waste services, any part of which are currently performed by city staff; and
RESOLVED, That City Council affirms its opposition to privatization for solid waste services not currently performed by an outside contractor.
Sponsored by: Councilmembers Eaton and Bannister
As Amended by Ann Arbor City Council on October 21, 2019
(Resolution Withdrawn on November 4, 2019)