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Resolution to Approve Amendment Number 3 to Contract with Waste Management of Michigan, Inc. for Commercial Refuse Collection Services (estimated $4,342,600.00 for an Estimated Total Contract Value of $20,172,000.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and consideration is a resolution to approve an amendment to the City's contract with Waste Management of Michigan, Inc. (WM) for Commercial Refuse Collection Services. This amendment will extend the contract for two years with an option for one additional one-year renewal. In addition to the duration of the contract, this amendment additionally changes waste delivery from the City Transfer Station, to direct delivery to the Woodland Meadows landfill. This elimination of the waste transfer will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, positively contributing to the City's carbon neutrality goal. The contract extension also provides an expanded option for Sunday franchise waste collection services to customers in the City's Downtown Business District.
The current contract with Waste Management will expire on June 30, 2021. With this two-year extension of the contract with Waste Management under amended terms and conditions, the City is undertaking a two-step process to implement changes to downtown and commercial solid waste collection as discussed in the Solid Waste Resource Management Plan: 2019-2023 (SWRMP), completed in November 2019 and approved by City Council on October 5, 2020 R-20-395:
Step 1 - Two-year amendment and extension of the current commercial refuse collection contract. The City is proposing a two-year amendment and extension of the current commercials refuse collection contract. In addition to more comprehensive changes to downtown and commercial solid waste collection envisioned by the SWRMP, City stakeholders including downtown area associations and business leaders have expressed a desire for more immediate changes to the city's refuse collection contract, including expanded weekend colle...
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