HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 1996-10-22 Mayor Jack Drago
Council:
Joseph A. Fernekes
Eugene R. Mullin
--John R. Penna
Robert Yee
MINUTES
City Council
Municipal Services Building
Community Room
October 22, 1996
AGENDA
ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING
CALL TO ORDER: (Cassette No. 1)
ROLL CALL:
1. Scavenger Recycling Program.
ouncilman Penna Arrived at 7:06 p.m.
~TION TAKE~
ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING
7:03 p.m. Mayor Drago presiding.
Council Present:
Council Absent:
Fernekes, Mullin, Yee and
Drago.
Penna and Yee.
City Clerk Battaya stated Councilman Yee was
attending a funeral this evening.
Director of Public Works Gibbs related: when they
started to take a look at the management position,
staff got together with the Scavenger Company to
meet the State mandate of a 50% goal; the Scaven-
ger presentation is to give the Council an overview
as to where the City is in reducing the waste stream
and the amount of solids in the landfill.
Scavenger Co. Vice President Stephanie Uccelli-
Menner spoke at length: AB939 requires everyone
to reduce the amount of waste by 25% between
1990 and 1995 and by an additional 25% by the
year 2000; many cities are having difficulties meet-
ing the goal, but the Company's efforts are slightly
on target; in 1990 the cities did a waste generation
study; it measured the amount of garbage being
generated in the City and took into account the
State's performance goals and determined the City's
base year numbers; the State changed the methodol-
ogy mid-stream; the year 1995 has been reduced
by 22-1/2%; all garbage must be identified as to the
City of origin and this applies not only to the Gar-
bage Companies, but also to the average guy who
gets rid of his garbage by dumping, as well as any
other companies that might go to the landfill and
dump; the State has a standard and figures are cal-
culated into an overall formula.
Mr. Paul Eisenhardt, Sierra Consulting Assoc.,
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Scavenger Recycling Program - Continued.
2. Preferred residency for employees. 5'/
suggested thinking of it as the State developing an
average number of 3% of pollution growth over the
three year spread and apply that to every community
rather than being city specific.
Discussion followed: if a city happened to be a fast
growing community it will get penalized; if employ-
ment is up in San Mateo County, then that is the
presumption for each community; the City did not
meet the 25% goal; at this point in time there is not
a penalty for not meeting the State's goal; there are
cities in the State that have met the 25% goal;
are there other transfer stations not meeting their
loads; San Francisco has not met the goals; the City
should have controls to ensure other cities don't
dump their garbage in our landfill; the State man-
dates one week in spring, summer, fall and winter, a
total of four calendar weeks, for the identification of
those using the landfill; the total tonnage in 1995 of
garbage for this city, from all sources, was 104,000
tons which includes landfill on Ox Mountain;
102,000 in 1990 that was not implemented with a
curbside pickup; the State, in 1990, was not count-
ing the landfill; the Scavenger Co. is responsible for
86,000 of the tonnage and the difference is from
many other parties; the Scavenger Co. has the
monthly lawn cutting pickup; everyone has to do
more to meet the goal by year 2000, perhaps
through community education for curbside pickups
to further reduce the waste stream; relocating the
transfer station; the Scavenger Co.'s equipment has
been working well and the new equipment has
proved to be more efficient and will help meet the
50% waste reduction goal; the Company is looking
for means to reduce concrete to powder; 20,000
tons of waste is attributable to junk collector com-
panies; debris box operators dump construction
material at Ox Mountain which violates this City's
ordinance; 23,000 tons come from the back of pick-
ups; Councilman Mullin wants data given to Council
before the next meeting on this subject; etc.
Interim Personnel Director Lee stated many months
ago Council directed staff to explore the possibility
for preferential points being added to the scores for
people to increase the possibility of City residency
for employment. Also the Council wanted the staff
to look at the aspect of additional compensation for
those residing in S.S.F. The City Attorney provided
Council information where additional compensation
can turn out to be a gift of public funds for living
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in S.S.F. He stated staff looked at a variety of
ways to do that and determined that the benefit of
having a person from S.S.F. could be applied during
a disaster and the Fire Chief developed a plan to use
employees as emergency response teams with train-
ing done off-duty and the City could provide addi-
tional compensation for the employees.
He related: duties must be provided for the disaster
volunteer work; if the duties become the same as the
job, then overtime must be provided, etc.
Mayor Drago stated he started this whole thing,
however, he went over everything and had second
thoughts on part of it. He related: he can see
where the extra money is needed for we are building
around something to justify, and that is wrong; he
believes one day that will surface and they will deal
with it, so he will not push that part of it as it will
be unworkable, so he will concentrate on the prefer-
ential hiring for entry level positions that could be
handled easily; he sees challenges in the other for
the employees will be working side by side with dif-
ferent salaries, so he is withdrawing the push for
that part of the request.
Discussion followed: what are the restrictions for
giving an extra five points to residents; not sure it
would get through the meet and confer process;
preference points are offered to veterans and for
seniority; the suggestion is to take a voluntary pro-
gram and structure it as a separate job, which is
divorced from the original premise that the Mayor
set up and Councilman Mullin has concerns; the
Mayor had an article from Washington that read,
"....I think the public is better served by having the
employee live in the City", by Mayor Walker;
would the points apply to open competitive or closed
competitive; Mayor Drago felt it should be for both;
the City Manager will test the waters with it; some
employees will be in favor and Councilman Penna
felt the City will get better service from the employ-
ees; Mayor Drago noted the comradery of the de-
partments is no longer there with people traveling 75
miles to go to work; the Mayor suggested soliciting
the high schools for tomorrow's employees; etc.
Mayor Drago noted there was a scorched fire engine
and understood it is more than scorched for it is a
brand new one. He wanted a report on the fire
engine and the three fire fighters that went to the
AGENDA ACTION TAKEN
Closed Session pursuant to GC 54957.6, to meet with
its designated representatives - City Manager, Interim
Director of Personnel and City Attorney on labor
relations with the Stationary Engineers.
RECALL TO ORDER:
ADJOURNMENT:
hospital.
Councilman Penna told the City Clerk he will be
away from 11/10/96 through 11/17/96 and will not
attend the 11/13/96 Council meeting.
Council entered a Closed Session at 8:15 p.m. to
discuss the items noticed.
Mayor Drago recalled the meeting to order at 8:54
p.m., all Council was present, no action was taken.
M/S Fernekes/Mullin - To adjourn the meeting.
Carried by unanimous voice vote.
Time of adjournment was 8:55 p.m.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
s~arbara A. Battaya, Cit
City of South San Francisco
APPROVED.
"J~ck Drago, Mayor
/City of South San Fr~,fcisco
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