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Board of Commissioners SWDD Meeting Minutes - Final July 2, 2024 <br />Attachments: Staff Report <br />diustment Letter from Waste Manaaement <br />Rate adiustment Letter from Atlas <br />Rate adiustment Letter from IRSC <br />Managing Director Solid Waste Disposal District (SWDD) Himanshu Mehta <br />informed the Board of the following rate adjustment recommendations. Waste <br />Management had requested a 2.47% Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase with <br />a 3.44% CPI allowance, Indian River Sustainability Center, LLC, requested a <br />$0.009 per gallon chemical adjustment, and recommended the Board accept the <br />simplified pricing structure as proposed by Atlas Organics Indian River, LLC. <br />Mr. Mehta introduced Vice President of Compost Operations at Atlas Organics <br />David Bahrenburg, who took opportunity to present the company's mission to the <br />Board. <br />Atlas Organics Controller Jarrett Bond used a PowerPoint presentation to explain <br />that the company took over the Indian River County composting facility on <br />January 1, 2020. They made infrastructure improvements and process around <br />90,000 tons of organic waste into compost, topsoil, soil blends, and mulches <br />annually. The facility also accepts a significant amount of packaged food waste, <br />expanding its impact. <br />A motion was made by Vice Chairman Flescher, seconded by Chairman <br />Adams, to approve staffs recommendation. The motion carried by the <br />following vote: <br />Aye: 5 - Chairman Adams, Vice Chairman Flescher, Commissioner Earman, <br />Commissioner Moss, and Commissioner Loar <br />15.B.5. 24-0527 Work Order No. 12 to Kimley-Horn for Various Landfill Improvement Projects <br />Recommended Action: Solid Waste Disposal District staff recommends that its Board approve Work <br />Order No. 12 with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. for $123,459, to provide <br />engineering services related to the various landfill improvement projects; and <br />authorize the Chairman to execute the same, as presented. <br />Attachments: Staff Report <br />KHA Work Order No 12 <br />There was no discussion on this Item. <br />A motion was made by Vice Chairman Flescher, seconded by Chairman <br />Adams, to approve staffs recommendation. The motion carried by the <br />following vote: <br />Aye: 5 - Chairman Adams, Vice Chairman Flescher, Commissioner Earman, <br />Commissioner Moss, and Commissioner Loar <br />Indian River County Florida Page 2 <br />