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ANALYSIS ;Attached is an Amendment to Ordinance 87-67 which changes Equivalent Residential Unit to Waste Generation Unit as -required for the 1989-90 Fiscal Year Rate Structure. The amendment also includes authority for the Solid Waste Disposal District to adopt "Policies and Procedures" by >resolution of the District Board. RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the attached Ordinance be approved and adopted by The Board of County Commissioners. i Attorney Vitunac advised that we were 3 days short on the advertised notice due to the State mandated hearing times for the Final Budget Hearing. It was unavoidable because of the time between devising this new system for the utilities and the State deadline. We need a vote of 4 out of 5 Commissioners to pass this as an emergency ordinance. The reason for the emergency is that the change must be effected before the Final Budget Hearing tomorrow night. It was advertised 12 days previous to the meeting, instead of 15 days; actually, it was 14 days if you count Sunday. Ron Brooks, Manager of SWDD explained that the purpose of this ordinance amendment i-s=to change the term equivalent residential unit (.ERU) to the term waste generation unit (WGU). In addition, we have Policies and Procedures that we had to implement before by resolution, but there wasn't any clear definition in the ordinance that such a procedure could be utilized. To cover ourselves and make sure that there wasn't any question about our authority to establish policies and procedures under the ordinance, we elected to incorporate that particular item into the ordinance. Originally, the ERU was based on a single-family equivalent residential unit of 1.3 tons of solid waste per year as the basic unit of service. That would be changed to Waste Generation Unit (WGU) which is equivalent to a waste generation rate of 1.0 tons. SEP 1 Val 13 500 �1 �' t �L X11 .4� s