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Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) fhe MRF sort line is collocated with the Pleasanton Transfer Station. The MRF sort line has been in operation since 1990. The MRF was originally designed as a "dirty MRF" and PGS sorted recyclables from the refuse stream (including materials collected via a "blue bag" program which began in 1994). The MRF was subsequently upgraded to a "clean MRF," capable of sorting the single stream, commingled materials collected from the newly implemented residential curbside program and the voluntary commercial recycling program. In 2010, PGS received California Pollution Control Financing Authority (CPCFA) financing totaling $2,555,000 to finance the acquisition, and installation, of new equipment to upgrade the MRF sort line, and purchase new compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles. This CPCFA funding financed a new screen and various other upgrades on the sort line. Rate Adjustments PGS may request adjustments to refuse and recycling collection service rates if it provides detailed information supporting the adjustment. Rate adjustments must be approved by the City Council. PGS submitted a rate change proposal to the City in August, 2007 and an interim rate adjustment was approved in June, 2008. This rate adjustment reflected increased operating costs above what PGS had predicted in the previous rate adjustment in July, 2004. As part of the August, 2007 rate change request, PGS and a City Council subcommittee consisting of Mayor Hosterman and Councilmember Sullivan met to discuss rate and service changes. The result of these meetings was a proposal for a service rate adjustment, new residential curbside recycling program, and new commercial recycling program. These changes were approved by the 2 - Proposal to Provide Assistance with City Diversion Tracking City Council in April, 2009. One component of the new rate and service package was a provision that "PGS participate in a City directed efficiency audit that will analyze its operational efficiency." Study 2 This consulting services contract will analyze the City's current diversion and recycling tracking to assure that all recycling efforts are being appropriately and accurately identified. Measurement of diversion and recycling within all jurisdictions in Alameda County (County) is important. The Alameda County Waste Reduction and Recycling Initiative Charter Amendment (Measure D), passed by Alameda County voters in 1990, placed Alameda Counry at the forefront of source reduction and recycling in California, and the nation. Measure D was intended to ensure that Alameda County meet and exceed the State's AB 939, 25 percent and 50 percent, waste diversion mandates. Alameda County set a higher diversion standard for the Counry, and its jurisdictions, of 75 percent. Thus, measurement requirements for diversion and recycling within the City go well beyond the diversion (and now per capita) metrics required by the state. In annual reports to the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board, the City provides a number of different diversion metrics to the County, including tons of refuse collected and landfilled, tons of residential recyclables collected, and tons of residential organic diversion. In addition, landfill operators report tonnage of waste disposed to landfill, by jurisdiction. This data is used to calculate total disposal by each jurisdiction. Figure 2 - 1, on the next page, provides a summary of City disposal and diversion data as reported in to the Alameda Counry Source Reduction and Recycling Board in January, 2010.