City of North Port - File #: ORD. NO. 2019-22

• File #: ORD. NO. 2019-22
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Second Reading
• File created: 4/18/2019
• In control: Solid Waste District Governing Body
• On agenda: 5/28/2019
• Final action: 6/25/2019
• Title: An Ordinance of the City of North Port, Florida, Amending the Non-District Budget Fiscal Year 2018-19 by Providing for Changes Identified in Exhibits A and B; Providing for Conflicts; Providing for Severability; and Providing an Effective Date

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/28/2019	1	Solid Waste District Governing Body	continued for second reading	Pass

TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission

FROM: Peter D. Lear, CPA, CGMA, City Manager

TITLE: Ordinance No. 2019-22, first reading, amending the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-2019 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget.


Recommended Action

Approve Ordinance No. 2019-22, amending the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-2019 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget.

Background Information

An Amendment to the FY 2018-2019 CIP Budget for additional funding in the amount of $127,000, as well as the re-appropriation of existing budget authority in the amount of $38,000.

Beginning in February 2013, China implemented aggressive inspection programs aimed at curtailing the high amount of contamination and now will no longer accept poorly sorted or dirty shipments of recyclable material from foreign export. Recycling revenue throughout the world has decreased, causing processing fees to increase with little or no market share. It is estimated that more than 800,000 tons of recyclables have been rejected by China since February 2018. A great deal of recyclable material has now become a waste with single stream recycling (all in one container). Unfortunately, the perception among many people throughout the United States is that everything is recyclable.

Single stream recycling has not aided the recycling market due to high contamination rates. It made recycling easier for the resident but more difficult for the processor and marketing brokers throughout the world to move the material.

* This has caused processing fees to increase and contamination rates to rise.
* Contaminated recyclables are being disposed in landfills.

Our plan is to maintain a dual stream collection system, maintain our clean quality recyclable material and utilize the area at 5455 Pan American Boulevard for a Recycling Center. At this location we will utilize an existing building and build an additional fabric shelter. One area will be for cardboard and paper, and the other for commingle material...