Attachment 1Attachment 1RESOLUTION NO. 25-59
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY OF ORANGE TO CONTINUE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FOR ONE-YEAR, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AMENDMENT, AND FINDING THE AGREEMENT CATEGORICALLY EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT WHEREAS, the City has an existing Waste Disposal Agreement (the “Agreement”) with the County of Orange (the “County”) which requires the City to dispose of all specified solid waste generated within the City to County landfills and for the County to accept all such waste at a price agreed upon by the City and County; and WHEREAS, the Waste Disposal Agreement became effective on or about July 23, 2009; and WHEREAS, an Amendment to the Waste Disposal Agreement (the “First Amendment”) was negotiated between the County and various cities throughout Orange County to provide for continuation of importation of waste from outside the County at County landfills in exchange for allocation to the cities of a portion of future importation revenues and to extend the terms of this activity within the Agreement to June 30, 2025; and WHEREAS, the Orange County City Manager Association and Orange County Waste and Recycling are currently negotiating a new agreement to ensure long term disposal of solid waste and potential processing for organics; and WHEREAS, Amendment No. 2 to the Agreement will allow for one year to finalize a new agreement, will memorialize disposal rates pursuant to the existing Agreement and is in the best interests of the City and the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Clemente does hereby find, determine and resolve as follows:
Section 1. That the above recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein as findings.
Section 2. That based on the record as a whole this project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under Class 1 (Existing Facilities, 14 CCR section 15301) of the State CEQA Guidelines because it consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use, and there is no reasonable possibility that the activity will have a significant direct or foreseeable indirect effect on the environment.
Section 3. That the City Manager is authorized and directed to execute a Second Amended to the Waste Disposal Agreement between the City of San Clemente and the County of Orange in a substantially similar format to that presented to the City Council on May 6, 2025.
Section 4. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this _____ day of ____________________, 2025.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the City of Steve Knoblock, Mayor of the
San Clemente, California City of San Clemente, California
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) §
CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE )
I, LAURA CAMPAGNOLO, City Clerk of the City of San Clemente, California, do hereby certify that Resolution No. 25-59 was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of San Clemente held on the _______ day of _______________________, _________, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of San Clemente, California, this _____ day of _________________, ________. __________________________
CITY CLERK of the City of
San Clemente, California
Approved as to form:
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Elizabeth A. Mitchell, City Attorney
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