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C. 68

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	John Kopchik, Director, Conservation & Development Department
Date:	June 23, 2020

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Subject:

2020/2021 North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 06/23/2020

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Justin Sullivan, (925) 674-7812

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: June 23, 2020
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE the 2020/2021 North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan (Exhibit A), identifying the activities authorized to be funded with Mitigation Fee revenue and respective funding allocations for the period of July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, as recommended by the North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Joint Expenditure Planning Committee.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The proposed action will not have an impact on the County’s General Fund. Mitigation Fee revenue is used to cover the costs incurred by the County and City for any activities (Strategies) authorized to be funded under the applicable North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan approved by the County and City of Richmond. Each annual Expenditure Plan includes a Contingency line item in the budget to serve as a cushion for potential revenue shortfalls, and staff proposed the amount recommended to be allocated to Contingency because it is believed sufficient for this purpose.

BACKGROUND:

New Expenditure Plans must be approved by both the County Board of Supervisors and Richmond City Council to officially authorize use of North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee funding. The purpose of this North Richmond Mitigation Fee (NRMF) is to mitigate designated impacts resulting from the County- and City-approved land-use permits for the expanded Bulk Material Processing Center (BMPC) located in North Richmond.

Summary of Recommended 2020/2021 Expenditure Plan
At the NRMFC meeting on May 29, 2020, the Committee voted to recommend that the County Board of Supervisors and Richmond City Council approve a 2020/2021 Expenditure Plan that allocates funding from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021. The amount recommended to be allocated to a number of existing strategies have decreased due to reduced revenue projection for FY 2020/2021. The recommended 2020/2021 Expenditure Plan attached as Exhibit A incorporates the following changes:

• Decreased the amount funded for Bulky Item Pick-ups & Disposal Vouchers (Strategy 1)
• Decreased the dollar amount funded for County Code Enforcement (Strategy 5)
• Decreased the amount funded for Illegal Dumping Law Enforcement (Strategy 6)
• Decreased the amount funded for surveillance cameras (Strategy 7)
• Provides funding to new City Code Enforcement (Strategy 8)
• Renamed the strategy and narrowed the focus of community based projects, maintains consistent funding levels for the two remaining Community Clean-Up Projects (Strategy 10)
• Renamed the strategy and incorporated one community based garden project previously funded under a different strategy, maintains consistent funding levels for both Garden Projects (Strategy 13)
• New strategy for City administered community based project previously funded under a different strategy, maintains consistent funding level for Love North Richmond project (Strategy 14)
• New strategy for City administered community based project previously funded under a different strategy, maintains consistent funding level for Mobile Tool Library project (Strategy 15)
• Decreased the amount allocated to Committee Administration/Staffing
• Decreased the amount allocated to the Contingency line item proportionate to the reduction in total projected revenue for FY 2020/2021

All other strategies remain unchanged. Specific nonprofit administered projects recommended to be funded under Strategies 10 and 13 as well as the City administered projects recommended to be funded under Strategies 14 and 15 were originally selected through the Request for Funding Proposal process conducted in 2018. The nonprofit organizations/projects proposed to be funded under Strategies 10 and 13 are shown in Attachments 2 and 4 of the Expenditure Plan respectively.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

Each new Expenditure Plan must receive final approval from the County Board of Supervisors and Richmond City Council. Expenditure Plans and any associated amendments recommended or approved by the NRMFC only take effect if/when approved by the Board of Supervisors and the Richmond City Council. Therefore, if the 2020/2021 Expenditure Plan is not approved by the Board prior to July 1, 2020 the previously approved strategies (activities) could not be funded by NRMF in which case, most if not all, would not continue being implemented without interruption.