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1583 SWDD Item Indian River County, Florida Solid Waste Disposal District Board Memorandum_ Date: November 4,2019 To: Jason E. Brown,County Administrator From: Vincent Burke,PE,Director of Utility Services Prepared By: Himanshu H.Mehta,PE,Managing Director,Solid Waste Disposal District Subject: Interlocal Agreement between the Solid Waste Disposal District and St.Lucie County for Recycling Services Descriptions and Conditions: On August 21, 2012,the Indian River County (IRC) Solid Waste Disposal District (SWDD) Board approved the Recyclables Transfer, Processing and Marketing Agreement (Agreement) to Resource Recovery Systems, LLC d/b/a ReCommunity ("ReCommunity"). This Agreement was in response to Request for Proposal (RFP) No. 2012023 for dual-stream recycling services for a five (5) year term commencing on September 1, 2012, with an optional five (5) year extension. On July 14, 2015, the SWDD Board approved the First Amendment to the Agreement, which assigned the processing services from ReCommunity to Tropical Exchange Corporation d/b/a Tropical Recycling and transitioned from dual- stream processing to single stream processing. The First Amendment to the Agreement amended the initial term from five (5) years to eight (8) years through August 31, 2020. On September 18, 2018,the SWDD Board approved the Second Amendment to the Agreement to approve the optional two (2) year extension to the Agreement through August 31, 2022. On August 13, 2019, Tropical Recycling notified SWDD staff that their processing facility in Ft. Pierce suffered a catastrophe from unforeseen weather on August 12, 2019. Specifically, Brian Katz, President of Tropical Recycling, stated that "Our entire infrastructure is severely affected by the damage, rendering us unable to transfer and process recyclables; the duration of this could be four weeks or possibly longer.We are currently making all efforts to resume operations as quickly as possible." On August 16, 2019, the respective County Administrators for Indian River County and St. Lucie County agreed to a month-by-month letter agreement for SWDD to transport and for St. Lucie to process the recyclables due to the emergency nature of the situation. SWDD began sending the recyclables on August 21, 2019. On October 14, 2019,Tropical Recycling informed SWDD staff that the City of Ft. Pierce had condemned their processing facility on October 9, 2019. Therefore, staff is requesting approval of the attached Interlocal Agreement between SWDD and St. Lucie County to formalize the processing of recyclables generated in Indian River County. St. Lucie staff is planning to tentatively bring this draft agreement to their Board for approval on November 19,2019. SWDD Agenda-Interlocal Agreement between SWDD and St Lucie County Page 14f2