2001-177RESOLUTION NO. 2001-177
Authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract with Affordable Waste Service,
LLC providing long-term pricing for the disposal of solid waste at the Rock County/City
of Janesville sanitary landfill.
WHEREAS, the additional tonnage to be disposed by Affordable Waste Service, LLC is
beneficial to the City in the form of additional revenue and in maintaining low disposal
rates for all landfill users; and,
WHEREAS, Janesville General Ordinance Section 8.64.150 (K) permits such long-term
disposal contracts; and,
WHEREAS, the Common Council finds this contract to be of benefit to the City and in
the best interest of the City's landfills and the City overall.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of
Janesville that the City Administration, on behalf of the City of Janesville, is hereby
authorized to jointly and severally enter into a contract with Affordable Waste Service,
LLC and to negotiate, draft, enter into, amend such contracts and/or other agreements and
modifications, and to take such other actions as the City Manager may determine, from
time to time, to be in the best interest of the City to effectuate the purpose of this
resolution and/or administration of said contracts, and to establish the time frames and
other terms and conditions of this contract not expressly addressed by this resolution, as
well as to include terms and conditions set forth herein.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Common Council that the City of Janesville
hereby offers the following disposal pricing terms to Affordable Waste Service, LLC:
· Price paid in 2001 and 2002 will be $18.00 per ton for waste originating
outside Rock County and $17.00 per ton for waste originating outside Rock
County;
· Beginning in 2003, and through the operating life of the City's currently-
operating sanitary landfill, the City reserves the right to annually increase fees
three percent (3%);
· Increases in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Environmental
Fees, as provided in Statutes and Wisconsin Administrative Code NR 520, as
from time to time revised, amended or renumbered~ shall be paid directly by
Affordable Waste Service, LLC and shall not be included in the calculation of
any potential annual rate increase.
ADOPTED: July 23, 2001
APPROVED:
A'FFEST:
, Timothy L. ~tzman, Depu~y'Clerk
City Attorney
Proposed by: Operations Department
Prepared by: Operations Department
MOTION BY: Steeber
SECOND BY: Murphy
COUNCILMEMBER AYE NAY PASS ABSENT
DAMRON X
WILLIAMS X
O'LEARY X
DEGARMO X
BRIEN X
MURPHY X
STEEBER X