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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.