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City of Pleasanton Recitals <br />Franchise Agreement with Pleasanton Garbage Service <br />1 Agreement <br />2 between <br />3 the City of Pleasanton <br />4 and <br />5 Pleasanton Garbage Service, Inc. <br />6 <br />7 For Solid Waste, Recyclable Materials and <br />8 Organic Materials Collection Services <br />9 <br />10 THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of the_day of 2018, by and between the <br />11 City of Pleasanton (hereinafter "the City") and Pleasanton Garbage Service, Inc. (hereinafter referred to <br />12 as the "Contractor" or"PGS"). <br />13 RECITALS <br />14 This Agreement is entered into with reference to the following facts and circumstances: <br />15 WHEREAS; the Legislature of the State of California, by enactment of the California Integrated Waste <br />16 Management Act of 1989(AB 939) (California Public Resources Code Section 40000 et seq.), has declared <br />17 that it is in the public interest to authorize and require local agencies to make adequate provisions for <br />18 Solid Waste Collection within their jurisdiction; <br />19 WHEREAS; the State of California has found and declared that the amount of refuse generated in <br />20 California, coupled with diminishing Disposal Site space and potential adverse environmental impacts <br />21 from landfilling and the need to conserve natural resources, have created an urgent need for State and <br />22 local agencies to enact and implement an aggressive integrated waste management program. The State <br />23 has, through enactment of AB 939 and subsequent related legislation including, but not limited to: the <br />24 Jobs and Recycling Act of 2011 (AB 341), the Event and Venue Recycling Act of 2004 (AB 2176), SB 1016 <br />25 (Chapter 343, Statutes of 2008), the Mandatory Commercial Organics Recycling Act of 2014 (AB 1826), <br />26 and the Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Bill of 2016(SB 1383), directed the responsible State agency, and <br />27 all local agencies, to promote Diversion and to maximize the use of feasible waste reduction, reuse, <br />28 Recycling and Composting options in order to reduce the amount of refuse that must be Disposed; <br />29 WHEREAS; in 1990 the Alameda County Waste Reduction and Recycling Initiative Charter Amendment <br />30 established a county-wide Solid Waste Diversion Rate goal of seventy-five percent(75%) by 2010; <br />31 WHEREAS; in 2010,the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board ("StopWaste") adopted a <br />32 Strategic Plan including a new waste Diversion goal: by 2020, less than 10 percent of what is deposited in <br />33 Alameda County's landfills will be readily Recyclable or Compostable; <br />City of Pleasanton Page 1 March 8, 2018