TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Brian D. Bordona - Director of Planning, Building, and Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Ashley Currie – Environmental Health Supervisor – Solid Waste
SUBJECT: Resolution Authorizing Application for Waste Tire Enforcement Grant
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RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt a Resolution authorizing the submission of an application to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for a Waste Tire Enforcement Grant and authorize the Director of Planning, Building, and Environmental Services or designee to execute the necessary grant documents. (Fiscal Impact: $42,266 Revenue; General Fund; Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
The Waste Tire Enforcement Grant will provide the Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) resources to survey, analyze, and inspect tire dealers, auto dealers, auto-dismantlers and other businesses for the ongoing environmental health and safety problems of hauling and storing waste tires. The LEA has worked closely with CalRecycle Waste Tire staff in regulating illegal tire storage piles at several auto-dismantling businesses and successfully coordinated cleanup of illegally disposed tires at locations throughout the County. The LEA will be inspecting businesses as a surveillance and enforcement activity and reinforcing the current regulations and importance of legally hauling and storing of waste tires. Any persons violating the waste tire regulations will be issued notices of violation and possible referral to CalRecycle for appropriate enforcement. LEA staff has successfully implemented the Waste Tire Enforcement Grant for over a decade now providing a valuable service to the business community in the form of education and training about the program and prevention of illegal tire disposal in Napa County. The LEA hopes to continue receiving this Grant in future years.
The grant program is currently on a 1-year cycle, with the same application required every year. The State requires a Board resolution authorizin...
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