Request for Approval To: Michelle Martin Deputy Director, Division of the Circular Economy From: Lauren Barva Branch Chief, Financial Resources Management Branch 2 Request Date: January 7, 2025 Decision Subject: Awards for the Beverage Container Recycling City/County Payment Program (California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, Fiscal Year 2024–25) Action By: January 21, 2025 Summary of Request Staff requests approval of payments for the Beverage Container Recycling City/County Payment Program (Program) for fiscal year (FY) 2024–25. Staff received 347 eligible Funding Requests that included 382 jurisdictions, requesting a total of $8,962,899 in eligible costs for this program. The funding available for FY 2024–25 is $10,500,000. Funding The Beverage Container Recycling City/County Payment Program has a continuous appropriation from the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund of $10,500,000 per fiscal year. The amount remaining reflects the total of all eligible funds from the jurisdictions that did not apply or were denied funding. Table 1. Funding Fund SourceAmount AvailableAmount to Fund ItemAmount RemainingLine ItemCalifornia Beverage Container Recycling (FY 2024–25)$10,500,000 $8,962,899 $1,537,101 Local Assistance/GrantsBackground and Findings Statutory Authority Public Resources Code section 14581(a)(3)(A) of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, authorizes CalRecycle to expend $10,500,000 annually for payments to cities and counties for beverage container recycling and litter cleanup activities. Payments are calculated on a per capita basis, with a minimum payment of $5,000 to cities and $10,000 to counties.
Program Background The program provides annual funding to California cities and counties for beverage container recycling projects that assist in achieving an 80 percent recycling rate for the state. Incorporated areas of a city, city and county, or the unincorporated area of a county as reported by the California Department of Finance’s annual population report (Report E-1 Population Estimates for Cities, Counties, and the State Population Estimates with Annual Percent Change (January 1, 2023, and 2024), are eligible to receive funding. Jurisdictions receive funding on a per capita basis, or a minimum of $5,000 for cities and $10,000 for counties, whichever is greater. All funds shall be available for expenditure until January 5, 2027, and are subject to reporting requirements. Criteria and Process The Notice of Funds Available was posted on the CalRecycle web site on August 20, 2024, with an appropriate notice sent to stakeholders. Funding Requests were due November 19, 2024. There are 539 jurisdictions statewide. CalRecycle received 347 eligible Funding Requests, including 12 Regional Funding Requests comprising of 35 participating jurisdictions. Of the remaining 157 jurisdictions, 1 declined funding, and 156 did not submit a Funding Request and therefore were disqualified. Any remaining funds will revert back to the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. All funds shall be available for expenditure until January 5, 2027, and are subject to reporting requirements. Listed below are the types of projects recommended for funding. The types of projects recommended for funding include implementation of new or existing curbside or neighborhood drop-off beverage container recycling programs, the purchase and/or installation of recycling bins for collection of California Refund Value (CRV) materials, public education and outreach promoting beverage container recycling, cooperative regional efforts among two or more cities and counties, purchase and installation of water refill stations, litter reduction and cleanup where the waste stream includes beverage containers, and in some instances, the expansion of current recycling collection activities in underserved areas and locations. Recommendation Staff recommends approval of 347 payment awards as listed below for $8,962,899. Table 2. Recommended Awards
ApplicantAward AmountAlameda County $37,020Alpine County $10,000Amador County $10,000City of Alameda $19,761City of Alhambra $20,690City of Aliso Viejo $12,807City of American Canyon $5,776City of Anaheim $84,849City of Antioch $29,089City of Arcata $5,000City of Arroyo Grande $5,000City of Atascadero $7,892City of Azusa $12,646City of Bakersfield $102,469City of Baldwin Park $17,921City of Banning $8,124City of Bell $8,643City of Bell Gardens $9,905City of Bellflower $19,493City of Belmont $7,061City of Benicia $6,838City of Berkeley $31,497City of Beverly Hills $8,272City of Big Bear Lake $5,000City of Biggs $5,000City of Blue Lake $5,000City of Bradbury $5,000City of Brawley $7,412City of Brea $12,225City of Brentwood $16,468City of Brisbane $5,000City of Buellton $5,000City of Buena Park $20,908City of Burbank $26,599City of Burlingame $7,951City of Calabasas $6,021City of Calexico $10,123City of Calimesa $5,000City of Calipatria $5,000City of Camarillo $17,512City of Capitola $5,000City of Carlsbad $28,763City of Carpinteria $5,000City of Cathedral City $13,016City of Ceres $12,621
ApplicantAward AmountCity of Chico $27,589City of Chino $23,366City of Chino Hills $19,350City of Chula Vista $69,474City of Citrus Heights $21,620City of Claremont $9,732City of Clearlake $5,000City of Clovis $31,697City of Coachella $11,095City of Coalinga $5,000City of Colfax $5,000City of Corning $5,000City of Coronado $5,734City of Costa Mesa $27,547City of Covina $12,910City of Culver City $10,359City of Cupertino $15,142City of Daly City $25,569City of Davis $16,529City of Del Mar $5,000City of Delano $13,407City of Diamond Bar $13,618City of Downey $28,061City of Duarte $6,248City of Dublin $18,481City of Dunsmuir $5,000City of East Palo Alto $7,594City of Eastvale $17,480City of El Centro $11,536City of El Cerrito $6,755City of El Monte $26,892City of El Paso De Robles (Paso Robles) $8,048City of El Segundo $5,000City of Elk Grove $44,747City of Emeryville $5,000City of Encinitas $15,529City of Escondido $37,625City of Eureka $6,848City of Fairfield $30,258City of Folsom $22,233City of Fontana $53,574City of Foster City $8,464City of Fountain Valley $14,363City of Fowler $5,000City of Fremont $57,306
ApplicantAward AmountCity of Fresno $136,209City of Fullerton $35,218City of Galt $6,776City of Garden Grove $42,845City of Gardena $15,280City of Gilroy $15,530City of Glendale $47,952City of Glendora $13,090City of Goleta $8,448City of Gonzales $5,000City of Grass Valley $5,000City of Greenfield $5,479City of Half Moon Bay $5,000City of Hanford $15,096City of Hawaiian Gardens $5,000City of Hawthorne $21,623City of Hayward $40,051City of Hemet $22,640City of Hercules $6,845City of Hesperia $25,229City of Hidden Hills $5,000City of Highland $14,200City of Holtville $5,000City of Huntington Beach $48,180City of Huntington Park $13,589City of Imperial $5,871City of Imperial Beach $6,854City of Indio $22,893City of Irvine $78,489City of Jackson $5,000City of Jurupa Valley $26,380City of Kerman $5,000City of King City $5,000City of Kingsburg $5,000City of La Habra $15,497City of La Habra Heights $5,000City of La Mesa $15,427City of La Mirada $12,312City of La Palma $5,000City of La Puente $9,676City of La Quinta $9,902City of La Verne $8,245City of Lafayette $6,534City of Laguna Beach $5,948City of Laguna Hills $7,901
ApplicantAward AmountCity of Laguna Niguel $16,339City of Lake Elsinore $18,117City of Lake Forest $21,958City of Lakewood $20,281City of Lancaster $43,245City of Larkspur $5,000City of Lawndale $8,035City of Lemon Grove $7,219City of Lincoln $13,592City of Livermore $21,439City of Livingston $5,000City of Lodi $16,886City of Loma Linda $6,573City of Lompoc $11,203City of Long Beach $114,316City of Los Angeles $947,632City of Malibu $5,000City of Manhattan Beach $8,865City of Martinez $9,422City of Maywood $6,445City of Mendota $5,000City of Menifee $28,078City of Merced $23,180City of Mill Valley $5,000City of Millbrae $6,108City of Milpitas $20,681City of Mission Viejo $23,048City of Modesto $54,477City of Monrovia $9,832City of Montclair $9,614City of Montebello $15,753City of Monterey $7,104City of Moorpark $9,093City of Moreno Valley $51,816City of Morgan Hill $11,892City of Morro Bay $5,000City of Mountain View $21,863City of National City $14,915City of Nevada City $5,000City of Newport Beach $20,841City of Norwalk $25,498City of Novato $13,073City of Oakland $105,942City of Oakley $11,731City of Oceanside $42,959
ApplicantAward AmountCity of Ontario $45,379City of Orange $34,798City of Orinda $5,139City of Oroville $5,000City of Oxnard $49,430City of Pacifica $9,577City of Pasadena $35,064City of Patterson $6,529City of Perris $20,069City of Pico Rivera $15,477City of Piedmont $5,000City of Pinole $5,000City of Pismo Beach $5,000City of Pittsburg $19,020City of Placerville $5,000City of Pleasant Hill $8,656City of Pleasanton $19,237City of Pomona $38,162City of Port Hueneme $5,567City of Porterville $16,002City of Poway $12,609City of Rancho Cordova $20,764City of Rancho Cucamonga $43,415City of Rancho Mirage $5,000City of Rancho Palos Verdes $10,535City of Rancho Santa Margarita $11,872City of Red Bluff $5,000City of Redding $23,331City of Redlands $18,426City of Redwood City $20,703City of Reedley $6,744City of Rialto $25,976City of Richmond $28,370City of Ridgecrest $7,312City of Rio Dell $5,000City of Rio Vista $5,000City of Riverbank $6,583City of Riverside $79,021City of Rolling Hills Estates $5,000City of Sacramento $129,612City of Salinas $40,614City of San Bernardino $56,633City of San Bruno $10,841City of San Buenaventura (Ventura) $27,087City of San Clemente $15,844
ApplicantAward AmountCity of San Diego $344,422City of San Francisco $209,744City of San Gabriel $9,962City of San Jacinto $13,669City of San Jose $241,139City of San Juan Capistrano $9,063City of San Leandro $22,003City of San Luis Obispo $12,463City of San Mateo $26,040City of San Pablo $8,093City of San Rafael $15,170City of San Ramon $20,867City of Sanger $6,918City of Santa Ana $77,557City of Santa Barbara $21,651City of Santa Clara $33,166City of Santa Clarita $57,598City of Santa Cruz $15,963City of Santa Fe Springs $5,002City of Santa Maria $27,842City of Santa Monica $23,447City of Santa Paula $8,160City of Santee $15,074City of Seal Beach $6,420City of Seaside $7,872City of Selma $6,425City of Sierra Madre $5,000City of Signal Hill $5,000City of Simi Valley $31,175City of Solana Beach $5,000City of Soledad $7,070City of Solvang $5,000City of South El Monte $5,201City of South Gate $23,401City of South Lake Tahoe $5,536City of Stockton $79,148City of Sunnyvale $39,503City of Susanville $5,000City of Taft $5,000City of Tehama $5,000City of Temecula $27,368City of Thousand Oaks $30,830City of Torrance $35,864City of Tulare $17,955City of Tulelake $5,000
ApplicantAward AmountCity of Turlock $18,073City of Tustin $19,953City of Union City $16,871City of Upland $19,814City of Vacaville $25,747City of Vallejo $30,561City of Villa Park $5,000City of Visalia $36,266City of Vista $25,138City of Walnut $7,293City of Walnut Creek $17,616City of Wasco $7,085City of West Sacramento $13,852City of Westlake Village $5,000City of Westmorland $5,000City of Whittier $22,110City of Wildomar $9,394City of Williams $5,000City of Winters $5,000City of Woodlake $5,000City of Woodland $15,440City of Yucaipa $13,736Contra Costa County $44,029Del Norte County City of Crescent City$15,000El Dorado County $39,798Fresno County $40,078Glenn County City of Willows$15,000Humboldt County $18,196Imperial County $10,000Inyo County $10,000Kern County $76,184Lake County $12,037Los Angeles County $248,489Mariposa County $10,000Mendocino County City of Willits City of UkiahCity of Fort Bragg$30,873Merced County $23,294Modoc County $10,000Monterey County $26,904
ApplicantAward AmountNapa County Town of YountvilleCity of St. HelenaCity of Calistoga$25,000Nevada County $17,298Placer County $28,527Riverside County $100,968Sacramento County $149,159San Benito County City of San Juan BautistaCity of Hollister$26,020San Bernardino County $74,196San Diego County $127,659San Joaquin County City of Ripon City of MantecaCity of Escalon$73,472San Luis Obispo County $30,564San Mateo County $16,028Santa Barbara County $35,304Santa Clara County $23,212Santa Cruz County $32,397Shasta County City of Shasta LakeCity of Anderson$27,055Siskiyou County City of Yreka City of Mount ShastaCity of MontagueCity of Fort Jones$30,000Solano County City of Dixon$15,191Sonoma County Town of Windsor City of Sonoma City of Sebastopol City of Santa Rosa City of Rohnert Park City of Petaluma City of Healdsburg City of CotatiCity of Cloverdale$134,851Stanislaus County $27,702Tehama County $11,054Town of Apple Valley $18,830
ApplicantAward AmountTown of Atherton $5,000Town of Colma $5,000Town of Corte Madera $5,000Town of Danville $10,944Town of Loomis $5,000Town of Los Altos Hills $5,000Town of Mammoth Lakes $5,000Town of Moraga $5,000Town of Paradise $5,000Town of Tiburon $5,000Town of Truckee $5,000Town of Woodside $5,000Town of Yucca Valley $5,736Trinity County $10,000Tulare County $34,090Tuolumne County City of Sonora$17,983Yolo County $10,000Yuba County Sutter County City of Yuba CityCity of WheatlandCity of MarysvilleCity of Live Oak$60,223Total Award $8,962,899 Deputy Director ActionOn the basis of the information and analysis in this Request for Approval and the findings set out herein, I hereby conditionally approve the grant awards for the 347 Grant Program as listed in Table 2. Each proposed grantee’s award is subject to two conditions: 1. The recommended grantee must pay all outstanding debts due to CalRecycle, or bring current any outstanding payments owed to CalRecycle, within 60 days of the date of the award. 2. Compliance with the Beverage Container Recycling City/County Payment Program Guidelines, Fiscal Year 2024–25, which included a Funding Request due date of November 19, 2024. ___________________________ ____________________________Michelle Martin Dated Deputy Director