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DATE: AUGUST 24, 1992 <br />TO: JAMES E. CHANDLER <br />COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR <br />THRU: TERRANCE G. PINTO, DIRECTOR <br />SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL DISTRI <br />FROM: RONALD R. BROOKS, MANAGER <br />SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL DISTRI <br />SUBJECT: GRANT CONTRACTS <br />BACKGROUND <br />The SWDD applied to the Florida Department of Environmental <br />Regulation (DER) for grant funds for fiscal year 1992-93. The <br />grant funds were to be awarded for Recycling and Education, and <br />for Waste Tire Management. The grant funds can be applied to <br />capital improvements, education efforts, operational costs <br />related to recycling, and waste tire management. These grant <br />funds are awarded to the County but are to be utilized by the <br />SWDD as reimbursement for the implementation and operation of a <br />recycling program and a waste tire management program. To date <br />the County has been awarded a total amount of funds as follows: <br />Recycling and Education .......$738,019 <br />Waste Tire ....................$139,714 <br />The awarded grant funds for the 1992-93 fiscal year are: <br />Recycling and Education .......$166,628 <br />Waste Tire ....................$ 56,741 <br />The grant contracts for award of grant funds for fiscal year <br />1992-93 are attached. The contracts must be signed by the <br />Chairperson of the Board of County Commissioners and one copy <br />must be returned to the DER. All conditions related to the award <br />of the grant funds are acceptable and can be readily completed <br />within the normal operation of the SWDD's Recycling Program and <br />Waste Tire Management Program. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />SWDD staff requests that the Board of County Commissioners <br />approve the grant contracts and authorize the Chairperson of the <br />Board to execute same. <br />ON MOTION by Commissioner Bird, SECONDED by <br />Commissioner Scurlock, the Board unanimously (3-0, <br />Chairman Eggert being absent) approved and <br />authorized the Vice Chairman to execute two (2) <br />grant contracts; for Recycling and Education, and <br />for Waste Tire Management, as recommended by staff. <br />SAID GRANT CONTRACTS <br />ARE ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF CLERK TO THE BOARD <br />25 <br />EP 87 PAGE 430 <br />