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C.154

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	John Kopchik, Director, Conservation & Development Department
Date:	June 22, 2021

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Subject:

2021/2022 North Richmond Waste and Recovery Mitigation Fee Expenditure Plan

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 06/22/2021

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, 925 655-2914

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 22, 2021
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE the 2021/2022 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, 2021 through June 30, 2022, 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 anticipates that there will be sufficient funding in the Contingency fund for this purpose.

BACKGROUND:

New Expenditure Plans and/or modifications to existing Expenditure Plans (Amended Expenditure Plan) 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 2021/2022 Expenditure Plan
At the NRMFC meeting on May 28, 2021, the Committee voted to recommend that the County Board of Supervisors and Richmond City Council approve a 2021/2022 Expenditure Plan that allocates funding from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. The recommended 2021/2022 Expenditure Plan attached (Exhibit A) incorporated the following changes:

• Remove funding from strategy 7 – Surveillance Cameras
• Increase the amount of funding for strategy 10 – Community Clean-up Projects
• Eliminate strategy 14 – Love North Richmond

All other strategies remained unchanged. Most nonprofits were allocated funding under Strategies 10 and 13 based on a Request for Funding Proposal released by Committee staff on February 9, 2018. One nonprofit within strategy 10 was added per Committee direction at the October 16, 2020 meeting. The nonprofits selected for funding are shown in Attachments 2 and 4 of the Expenditure Plan.

The next NRMFC meeting is planned to be scheduled for October 15, 2021.

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 2021/2022 Expenditure Plan is not approved by the Board prior to July 1, 2021 the previously approved activities (Strategies) could not be funded by NRMF in which case, most if not all, would not continue being implemented without interruption.