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16-61 SWDD Item Indian River County, Florida Solid Waste Disposal District Board Memorandum Date: November 14, 2022 To: Jason E. Brown, County Administrator From: Sean C. Lieske, Director of Utility Services Prepared By: Himanshu H. Mehta, PE, Managing Director, Solid Waste Disposal District (SWDD) Subject: Request for General Funds - PACE Project and Other Community Projects FY2022-23 Descriptions and Conditions: The Solid Waste Disposal District (SWDD) has in the past used the General Fund to cover the disposal cost for fees associated with community projects, including the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) in Indian River County (IRC) Division of Environmental Health's (EH) Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence (PACE) project. The PACE project focuses on identifying issues in a community, one of which is abandoned homes. These abandoned homes pose safety and health hazards, and provide havens for drug dealers and other criminal activities. It has been determined that there are homes that need to be demolished in order to enhance the well-being of the community. Other community projects include removing illegal dumping and other clean-up projects that involve volunteers throughout our community. SWDD has received the attached request from Julianne Price, EH Manager at FDOH in IRC, for an allocation of $6,000 for this fiscal year. Staff supports this request, but is requesting a total of $9,000 in funding to cover the request from FDOH along with an annual pledge of $2,000 to the Indian River Farms Water Control District (IRFWCD) and $1,000 for other miscellaneous cleanup/illegal dumping projects. Analysis: For each PACE EH project, labor and machinery will be donated towards the cleanup effort. It is the request of the partners involved in each project that the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) allocate funds to cover associated landfill disposal fees. This will include disposal of debris from the demolition and reconstruction of homes involved in the PACE project, and illegal public dumping debris that is cleaned up by County/SWDD staff or by volunteers. The total estimated landfill fees are not expected to exceed $9,000.00 for all projects involved in clean-up efforts. Funding: The $9000 in funding to cover landfill disposal fees for cleanup events and illegal dumping debris will come from the General Fund/Planning/Other Professional Services account (00120415-033190) via a budget amendment from Reserve for Contingency. SSWDD Agenda - Request for General Funds - PACE and Other Community Project FY2022-23 Page123