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Exhibit A- Work Order No . 1 Scope of Engineering Services 2014 Solid Waste Management Plan Update Solid Waste Disposal District Indian River County, Florida BACKGROUND In 2005, the Consultant updated the 2001 Solid Waste Disposal District' s (SWDD) Solid Waste Master Plan to reflect rapid growth in population and solid waste generation. The 2005 update provided a master plan for continued operations of the Indian River County Solid Waste Management System (the "System' ) including a master site development plan for future landfill disposal areas and related infrastructure, a master plan to improve or expand the five Customer Convenience Centers (CCC), and developed a short-term and long-term capital improvement planning program. In early 2006, the SWDD Board of County Commissioners decided to forego development of the landfill' s north parcel as a dedicated disposal area for future use . Thus, only the remaining acreage on the original Landfill property and the southern parcel would potentially be developed for solid waste disposal activities . The County requested a revision to the draft 2005 Solid Waste Master Plan to reflect the north parcel development restrictions and Board directives. The final Solid Waste Master Plan (" 2006 Plan" ) updated the landfill facility development planning, disposal area development and identified the Capital Improvement Plan (2006-2011 CIP) to reflect the SWDD' s solid waste management objectives . During the past six years several major changes has taken place related to solid waste management and operations of the Indian River County' s System . Among those are : • The County stopped operating the C&D disposal area and closed the C&D material disposal site . • The County selected and entered into a contract with a new private company to operate the landfill disposal area . The new operating contract allowed the County to dispose of C&D material in the Class I landfill. • The INEOS Bio-refinery was constructed by a private developer next to the landfill property to use waste material as feed stock in production of ethanol and power. • The County subsequently entered into a contract with INEOS for accepting the County' s yard waste as feed stock in the plant. The private developer has indicated to the County that their future plans include accepting Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) as feed stock. • The County purchased additional properties west of I-95 for future use • A private C&D facility is permitted to be developed next to the County landfill. • In 2010, the FDEP rules were modified to set a 75 % recycling goal without any additional guidelines to local communities or state level funding mechanism to achieve that goal. • The economic downturn during the past five years has negatively impacted solid waste generated in the County and processed by the System . This change, similar to other surrounding Counties, has resulted in loss of revenues with no change in fixed costs .