HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1989.12.14 - 17334Miscellaneous Resolution # 89347 December 14, 1989
BY: PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE - Anne M. Hobart, Chairperson
IN RE: D.P.W. - SOLID WASTE
OAKLAND COUNTY'S SOLID WASTE SYSTEM INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Oakland County's Solid Waste system is being established on
behalf of the County's municipalities for the purpose of acquiring and providing
processing and disposal facilities and for the purpose of providing services for
the processing and disposal of certain solid wastes and recyclables; and
WHEREAS, the County intends to finance all or a part of the capital cost
of the facilities through the issuance of bonds pursuant to Act 186 or other
pertinent statutes; and
WHEREAS, because the system must rely on revenues from the disposal of
solid waste and the sale of energy and recycled materials to be economically
feasible, an adequate supply of solid waste and recyclable materials must be
guaranteed to be input into the system; and
WHEREAS, staff and the county's legal counsels have prepared a proposed
Intergovernmental Agreement specifying the contractual obligations between the
County and its constituent municipalities and have reviewed the proposed agreement
on three occassions with the legal counsels of the respective municipalities
(September 8, 1939, November 1, 1989, and November 29, 1989), incorporating
changes appropriate to insure the basic concepts of the system.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners approves the
Intergovernmental Agreement in substantially the form attached hereto and
authorizes the County Executive and the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners to
release said document for approval by the County's municipalities; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Executive and Chairman of the Board
of Commissioners are hereby authorized to sign the intergovernmental Agreement in
substantially the form approved after approval by each participating municipality.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee, I move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE
Anne M. Hobart, Chairperson
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT •
FOR SOLID WASTE PROCESSING AND DISPOSAL SERVICES
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into as of the
day of , 1989, by and between the
("Municipality") and the COUNTY OF OAKLAND ("County").
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the County proposes to establish the
Oakland County Solid Waste Management System ("System")
pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 186 of the Public Acts
of Michigan, 1989 ("Act 186") for the purpose of acquiring
and providing processing and disposal facilities and
services for the processing and disposal of certain solid
wastes and recyclable materials for the benefit of local
units of government within the County; and
WHEREAS, Section 25 of Act No. 641 of the Public
Acts of Michigan, 1978, as amended ("Act 641") requires all
counties to adopt a solid waste management plan; and
WHEREAS, the County will adopt the update of its
Solid Waste Management Plan (the "Act 641 Plan") pursuant to
the provisions of Act 641, which Plan update is expected to
be approved by the governing bodies of not less than 67% of
municipalities within the County and by the Director of the
Michigan Department of Natural Resources ("MDNR") both as
required by Act 641; and
WHEREAS, Section 25 of Act 641 requires solid waste
management plans to include an enforceable program and
process to assure that the nonhazardous solid waste gener-
ated or to be generated for a 20-year period is collected
and recovered, processed, or disposed of at facilities which
comply with Act 641 and rules promulgated pursuant to the
provisions of Act 641; and
WHEREAS, Section 24 of Act 641 provides that a
municipality or a county shall assure that all solid waste
is removed from sites of generation frequently enough to
protect the public health and is delivered to licensed solid
waste disposal areas; and -
WHEREAS, Section 30(1)(c) of Act 641 provides that
the rules of the MDNR shall require solid waste management
plans to evaluate and select technically and economically
feasible solid waste management options which may include
resource recovery systems; and
WHEREAS, the update of theAAot 641 Plan will recom-
mend, among other_thLlasa. the construction and operation of
a combination of resource recovery facilities, recycling
facilities, composting facilities, sanitary landfills and
possibly transfer stations (collectively, the ''Facilities'),
which shall be owned by the County and operated by the
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County or by private vendors pursuant to operating contracts
with the County or which shall be made available to the
County by contract or lease; and
WHEREAS, the County intends to finance all or a
part of the capital cost of the Facilities through the
issuance of bonds pursuant to Act 186 or other pertinent
statutes; and
WHEREAS, the Municipality desires to use the System
to be constructed by or on behalf of the County; and
WHEREAS, because the System must rely on revenues
from the disposal of solid waste and the sale of energy and
recycled materials to be economically feasible, an adequate
'supply of solid waste and recyclable materials must be
processed at the Facilities; and
WHEREAS, the update of the Act 641 Plan to be
approved by the Director of the MDNR, as provided by applic-
able statutes of the State of Michigan, affirmatively
endorses the assurance of an adequate supply of solid waste
and recyclable materials to the System; and
WHEREAS, the County and the Municipality desire to
enter into this Agreement to prescribe their respective
rights and obligations with respect to the System and to
assure an adequate supply of solid waste and recyclable
materials to the Facilities; and
WEEREAS I the County and the Municipality desire to
enter into this Agreement to protect the -public health and
the general welfare of the people in the County and in the
Municipality as required and authorized by the Constitution
and the statutes of the State of Michigan, and especially
Article IV, Sections 51 and 52 of the Constitution and Acts
186 and 641.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises
and the covenants of each, the County and the Municipality
agree as follows:
1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the
words and phrases listed below shall have the following
meanings:
(a) "Act 186" means Act No. 186 of the Public
Acts of Michigan, 1989.
(b) "Act 641" means Act No. 641 of the Public
Acts of Michigan, 1978, as amended.
(c) "Act 641 Plan" means the Oakland County
Solid Waste Management Plan approved by the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners and by the Director of the Department
of Natural Resources, pursuant to the requirements and
provisions of Act 641, and any updates thereof and any
amendments thereto adopted in accordance with Act 641.
(d) 'Commercial Operation Date' means, with
respect to a particular Facility, the date when the
Facility has been completed and tested and is, in the sole
opinion of the County, ready for ilcommercial operation.
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(e) "County" means the 'County of Oakland,
Michigan, acting by and through its Board of Commissioners
or its Department of Solid Waste Management established
pursuant to the provisions of Act 186.
(f) "Disposal Fee" means the fee or fees
established by the County pursuant to this Agreement for
receiving, storing, processing and/or disposing of Solid
Waste and Recyclable Materials.
(g) "Executive Committee" means the Executive
Committee of the Solid Waste Board established pursuant to
paragraph 14 of this Agreement.
A(h) "Facility" or "Facilities" means any one
or more of the following facilities owned by the County or
made available to the County by contract !or lease and
utilized in connection with the System: (1) a recycling
facility, (2) a transfer facility, (3) --an RRF, (4) a
sanitary landfill, (5) a composting facility, or (6) any
other facility utilized in the processing and/or disposing
of Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials.
(i) "Hazardous Waste" means any material or
substance which by reason of its composition or character-
istics is (a) hazardous waste as defined in the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, 42 UsC S6901 et seq., as amended, replaced or
superseded, and the regulations implementing same, or
(b) material the disposal of which is regulated by the Toxic
Substances Control Act, 15 USC S2601 et seq., as amended,
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replaced or superseded, and the regulations implementing
same, or (c) special nuclear or by-products material within
the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or
(d) hazardous waste as defined in Act No. 64 of the Public
Acts of Michigan, 1979, as amended from time to time, and as
identified in administrative rules promulgated from time to
time pursuant to the provisions of said Act by the Director
of the MDNR. If any governmental agency or unit having
appropriate jurisdiction shall determine that substances are
hazardous or harmful to health when processed at any Facil-
ity, then any such substances or materials shall be Hazard-
ous Waste for purposes of this Agreement.
(j) "Municipality" means the
A(1c) "Person" means any individual, firm,
public or private corporation, partnership, trust, public or
private agency or any other entity, or any group of such
persons.
il(1) "Premises" means any enclosed area used
for residential, commercial, or industrial purposes, separ-
ately or in combination, to which a separate street address,
postal address or box, tax roll description, or other
similar identification has been assigmed to or is in use by
a Person having control of the area
A.rta) 'Recyclable Materials" means commingled
and/or pre-sorted materials (including but not limited to
high grade paper, glass, metal, plastic, aluminum, news-
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paper, corrugated paper and Yard Clippings) that are
separated from Solid Waste prior to the collection of solid
Waste from a Site of Generation and left at the site of
Generation or at a drop-off center for collection and that
are designated by the County in a written notice to the
Municipality as Recyclable Materials for purposes of this
Agreement.
(n) "RRF" means the mass-burn energy-generat-
ing incinerator or incinerators to be constructed by or on
behalf of, or available by contract or lease with, the
County and to be located within the County in accordance
with this Agreement and the Act 641 Plan, and shall include
any contract to sell steam or electricity generated by the
RRF.
No) "Site of Generation" means any Premises
in or on which Solid Waste or Recyclable Materials is
generated by any Person.
il(p) "Solid Waste" means garbage, rubbish,
ashes, Yard Clippings, incinerator ash, incinerator residue,
street cleanings, municipal and industrial sludges, solid
commercial and solid industrial waste, and animal waste
provided, however, that this definition shall not include
Hazardous Waste, Recyclable Materials, human body waste,
liquid or other waste regulated by statute, ferrous or
nonferrous scrap directed to a scram metal processor or to a
reuser of ferrous or 'nonferrous products, and slag or slag
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products directed to a slag processor or i to a reuser of slag
or slag products.
JILL) "System" means the Oakland County Solid
Waste Management System, and every aspect thereof (includ-
ing, but not limited to, rights, processes, contracts,
equipment, sanitary landfills, transfer stations, recycling
facilities, composting facilities, and any RRF), that is
acquired, constructed, or operated, or is to be acquired,
constructed, or operated by or on behalf of, or available by
contract or lease with, the County in accordance with the
Act 641 Plan.
Cr) "Waste Hauler" means any Person, other
than the Municipality, engaged in the business of collecting
and transporting, delivering and disposing of Solid Waste
and Recyclable Materials generated within the Municipality.
(s) "Yard Clippings" means fallen leaves, cut
grass, lake weeds or other organic debris that can be
converted to humus.
2. Construction and Operation of Facilities;
Notice of Operation Date. The County shall construct, oper-
ate and maintain the Facilities, or cause the Facilities to
be constructed, operated and maintained, to accept and
dispose of all Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials gener-
ated within the Municipality and delivered to Facilities
pursuant to this Agreement. The County shall give thirty
(30) business days' written notice to the Municipality of
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the Commercial Operation Date Of any of the Facilities ..
Within seven (7) business days of receipt of such notice,
the Municipality shall give written notice of the Commercial
Operation Date to all Waste Haulers and published notice to
all persons having control of Premises which are a Site of
Generation.
3. Assistance with Permits and Auorovals. The
County and the Municipality shall use their mutual good
faith efforts to execute, issue or obtain such agreements,
consents, approvals, licenses, permits, ordinances, resolu-
tions, authorizations and the like as may be necessary or
appropriate in connection with the design, financing, loca-
tion, construction, testing and operating of the Facilities
or as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the
purposes of Act 186 and this Agreement and to implement the
Act 641 Plan. Without violating the foregoing, the Munici-
pality shall be entitled to commence an action against the
County in a court of competent jurisdiction to contest any
decision made by the County with respect to the location or
operation of any of the Facilities. The commencement of such
an action shall not relieve the Municipality of any other
obligations, duties and responsibilities under this Agree-
ment.
4. Testina of Facilities. For purposes oftest-
ing the operation of any Facility prior to the Commercial
Operation Date thereof, the Municipality, upon ten (10)
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business days' written notice from the County, shall collect
and deliver to the Facility, or cause to be collected and
delivered to the Facility, Solid Waste or Recyclable
Materials, as the case may be, in the amounts and for the
period of time specified in the notice. While the Facility
is being tested, the fee to be charged for the delivery and
disposal of such Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials at the
Facility shall be equal to, in the case of an RRF, $30 per
ton, in the case of a recycling facility, no charge, and in
the case of a sanitary landfill or composting facility, the
rate then prevailing in the County for sanitary landfills or
composting facilities, as the case may be The delivery and
disposal of Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials at any
Facility prior to the Commercial Operation Date pursuant to
this paragraph shall not relieve the Municipality of any
other obligations, duties and responsibilities under this
Agreement.
5. Delivery of Solid Waste and Recyclable
Materials to Facilities. (a) Commencing on the Commercial
Operation Date of the initial RRF, the Municipality shall
collect and deliver, or cause to be collected and delivered,
all Solid Waste generated within its boundaries to the
Facility designated by the County. Commencing on the
Commercial Operation Date of the initial recycling
facility, the Municipality shall collect and deliver, or
cause to be collected and delivered, all Recyclable
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Materials (excluding Yard Clippings) generated within its
boundaries to the Facility designated. by the CountyA
Commencing on the Commercial Operation Date of the initial
composting facility, the Municipality shall collect and
deliver, or cause to be collected and delivered, all Yard
Clippings generated within its boundaries to the Facility
designated by the County. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in
lieu of delivering or causing to be delivered all Recyclable
Materials generated within its boundaries to a County-desig-
nated System Facility, the Municipality shall have the
option to deliver or cause to be delivered such Recyclable
Materials (excluding Yard Clippings) or Yard Clippings, or
both, to a recycling facility or composting facility, as the
case may be, designated by the Municipality which is not a
System Facility. The Municipality has designated in
attached Exhibit A the recycling facility and composting
facility, as the case may be, to which such Recyclable
Materials shall be delivered, it being understood by the
Municipality that the designation of a recycling facility
and composting facility in Exhibit A may be changed only by
an amendment to this Agreement pursuant to paragraph 18(d)
hereof.
(b) The Municipality shall by ordinance require
all waste Haulers: (a) to collect and deliver to the
Facilities designated by the County or to recycling and
composting facilities designated by the Municipality
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pursuant to (a) above, all Solid Waste and Recyclable
Materials, as the case may be, generated within the Munici-
pality, and (b) to pay the Disposal Fee when required by
paragraph 10 hereof. The Municipality shall take all
reasonable action, including, but not limited to the actions
described in paragraph 12 of this Agreement, as may be
necessary to ensure that all Solid Waste and Recyclable
Materials, as the case may be, generated githin its boundar-
ies shall, commencing on the Commercial Operation Date of a
particular facility, be delivered only to the Facility or
Facilities designated by the County or to recycling and
composting facilities desicnated by the Municipality
pursuant to (a) above. The collection and delivery of Solid
Waste and Recyclable Materials pursuant to this Agreement
shall be in compliance with Act 186, Act 641, the Act 641
Plan, and any other applicable federal and state laws,
statutes, rules and regulations. The Municipality shall
comply, and shall by ordinance require all Waste Haulers to
comply, with Act 641, the Act 641 Plan, and any other
applicable federal and state laws, statutes, rules and
regulations.
(c) In order better to enable the Municipality to
comply with its obligations under paragraphs 4 and 5(a) of
this Agreement, the County agrees to provide to the Munici-
pality, commencing January, 1990, monthly reports regarding
the status of the implementation of the System and the Act
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1641 Plan and the financing, construction, location, testing
and operation of the Facilities.
6. Processing and Disposal of Solid Waste and
Recyclable Materials. Commencing on the Commercial Opera-
tion Date of the initial RRF, the County, or its represent-
ative, shall receive and dispose of all Solid Waste deliver-
ed to the Facility or Facilities designated by the County
pursuant to paragraph 5 of this Agreement. Commencing on
the Commercial Operation Date of the initial recycling
facility, the County, or its representative, shall receive
and process all Recyclable Materials (excluding Yard
Clippings) delivered to the Facility or Facilities desig-
nated by the County pursuant to paragraph 5 of this Agree- .
ment. Commencing on the Commercial Operation Date of.the
initial composting facility, the County, or its representa-
tive, shall receive and process all Yard Clippings delivered
to the Facility or Facilities designated by the County
pursuant to paragraph 5 of this Agreement. The County
reserves the right to dispose of Solid Waste or to process
Recyclable Materials delivered to a particular Facility at
other Facilities of the System when, in the sole opinion of
the County, such disposal or processing is desirable for the
proper and efficient operation of the System or the parti-
cular Facility is unable to accept and process or dispose of
Solid Waste or Recyclable Materials. The County shall be
solely responsible for the processing and disposal of Solid
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Waste and Recyclable Materials delivered to any Facility and
for the administration and enforcement of all agreements
relating to the acquisition, construction and operation of
any Facility. AIn processing or disposing of Solid Waste and
Recyclable Materials delivered pursuant to this Agreement,
the County shall comply with Act 186, Act 641, the Act 641
Plan, and other applicable federal and state laws, statutes,
rules and regulations.
7. Right of Refusal. Hazardous waste. The County
shall, in its sole discretion, have the right to refuse
delivery to any Facility of any material which is not
required or Dermitted by this Agreement to be delivered to
such Facility. The Municipality shall not deliver Hazardous
Waste to any Facility. The Municipality shall by ordinance
prohibit Waste Haulers from delivering Hazardous Waste to
any Facility.
8. Rules and Reculations. The County shall adopt
specific rules and regulations from time to time for the
administration and operation of the Facilities of the
System, which rules and regulations shall not have an
unreasonable discriminatory effect upon the owners or
occupants of a Site of Generation. The Municipality shall
comply with all such rules and regulations adopted by the
County. The Municipality shall by ordinance require all
Waste Haulers to comply with such rules and regulations
adopted by the County. The Municipality .shall take all
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action as may be necessary to ensure compliance with such
rules and regulations of the County. .
9. Other Waste Disposal Facilities. The Munici-
pality shall not hereafter acquire, construct, operate, or
maintain, or permit the acquisition, construction, operation
or maintenance, of any waste disposal or processing facility
within its boundaries during the term of this Agreement
except for A System Facilities, recycling facilities and
composting facilities utilized pursuant to paragraph 5 of
this Agreement and as otherwise authorized by the County,
in each case consistent with the Act 641 Plan.
10. Disposal Fees. The Municipality hereby
consents to the imposition and collection of a Disposal Fee
by or on behalf of the County for the acceptance and proces-
sing or disposal of Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials
pursuant to this Agreement. The Disposal Fee shall be
charged to and paid by the Municipality for any delivery of
Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials to any Facility by (a)
the Municipality, or (b) a Waste Hauler operating pursuant
to a contract with the Municipality where such contract
provides that the Disposal Fee at the Facility shall be paid
by the Municipality. In all other instances, the Disposal
Fee shall be charged to and paid by the Waste Hauler
delivering Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials to any
Facility. The Municipality agrees that the Municipality or
the Waste Hauler, as the case may be, will be required to
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maintain a credit balance in its account with the System
sufficient to cover Disposal Fees for any Solid Waste and
Recyclable Materials delivered to a Facility. The obliga-
tion to pay the Disposal Fee charged pursuant to this para-
graph shall be absolute and unconditional whether or not the
County, or its representative, processes or disposes of the
delivered Solid Waste or Recyclable Materials, in whole or
in part, at other Facilities of the System pursuant to para-
graph 6 of this Agreement and whether or not any particular
Facility is operable or in operation at the time of delivery
of Solid Waste or Recyclable Materials. The gross revenues
derived from the Disposal Fees, together with revenues
derived from the sale of Recyclable Materials and the sale
of energy or by-products generated by an RRF, shall be
sufficient to defray the current operating costs of the
System, which for any year shall include: (a) all actual
expenditures for administration, operation and maintenance
(including reasonable reserves for operation, maintenance
and replacements) incurred in providing for the processing
and disposal of and in processing and disposing of Solid
Waste and Recyclable Materials pursuant to this Agreement,
and (b) all actual obligations of the County (including debt
service requirements and a reasonable reserve for such obli-
gations) incurred in providing for the processing and
disposal of and in processing and disposing of Solid Waste
and Recyclable Materials pursuant to this Agreement. Each
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year, in accordance with paragraph 14(d) of this Agreement,
the Disposal Fee shall be established by the County at least
30 days prior to the beginning of the County's next succeed-
ing fiscal year, to be effectivethe first day of such
fiscal year (presently January 1), so as to produce these
amounts and any amounts advanced by the County to satisfy
any shortfall in System gross revenues for which the County
has not been Teimbursed and shall not be greater than neces-
sary to produce these amounts. In the event that the
Municipality fails to pay Disposal Fees for which it is
liable pursuant to this paragraph, the County shall have the
remedies prescribed in Section 15 of Act 186. In addition,
the County shall have all other remedies provided by law.
11. Other Users; Disposal of Solid Waste and
Processing of Recyclable Materials. In order to utilize
fully the capacity of any RRF or recycling facility, the
County may accept Solid Waste or Recyclable Materials, as
the case may be, from any Person, including the County, in
addition to the Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials
required to be delivered pursuant to paragraph 5 of this
Agreement. The County shall charge a Disposal Fee for such
deliveries of Solid Waste which shall be fixed and may be
revised from time to time by the CountyAfollowing consulta-
tion with and a recommendation from the Executive Committee.
1.102.16.51111111iIIMOME•
The acceptance and disposal or processing of Solid Waste and __-
Recyclable Materials pursuant to this paragraph shall be
consistent with the Act 641 Plan.
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12. Responsibility of Contracting Municipality. (a)
The Municipality shall be solely responsible for
the enactment and enforcement of ordinances required to be
enacted by this Agreement as well as to establish its own
rules and regulations for Solid Waste and Recyclable
Materials collection, processing and disposal, not inconsis-
tent herewith, all to protect the public health, safety and
welfare. In connection with the collection of Recyclable
Materials, the Municipality shall adopt an ordinance requir-
ing all Persons generating solid Waste within the Municipal-
ity to source separate Recyclable Materials from Solid
Waste prior to collection and establishing Acivil and/or
criminal penalties for failure to comply. The Municipality
shall take all action (including but not limited to criminal
prosecution, civil proceedings and other actions for
injunctive or other equitable relief, and suspension or
revocation of licenses, franchises or permits) as may be
necessary to enforce such ordinances, rules and regulations.
The Municipality shall also be solely responsible for the
issuance of any licenses, franchises, or permits to Waste
Haulers, and for the enforcement of the terms thereof and
for the regulation of the conduct of Waste Haulers and of
the use of the streets, alleys and public places in the
Municipality for the collection and/or hauling of Solid
Waste and Recyclable Materials. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Municipality hereby authorizes the County to
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enforce, on behalf of and as agent for the Municipality,
the provisions of any ordinance enacted by the Municipality
pursuant to this Agreement and, if determined by the County
to be necessary in an emergency situation to protect the
public health, to provide collection services for Solid
Waste and Recyclable Materials to individual users in the
Municipality. In addition, the County shall be entitled to
petition a court of competent jurisdiction to compel
specific perfoLluance of the Municipality's obligations under
this paragraph 12.
(b) In the event that an action is commenced
against the Municipality in a court of competent jurisdict-
ion challenging the validity or constitutionality of a
provision of an ordinance adopted by the Municipality
pursuant to this Agreement requiring all Solid Waste and
Recyclable Materials generated within its boundaries to be
delivered to a designated Facility, the County, at the
request of the Municipality, shall undertake the defense of
such action and shall pay all costs relating thereto. The
costs of such a defense by the County shall be paid first
from the gross revenues of the System, to the extent avail-
able, and then from other County funds. If the County
advances funds to pay the costs of such a defense, it shall
be reimbursed for such advance from System gross revenues.
13. County Records. The 'County agrees to main-
tain, or cause to be maintained, separate, complete and .
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accurate accounting records of expenditures and obligations
incurred and quantities involved in Solid Waste and Recycl-
able Materials reception, processing and disposal at any
Facility pursuant to this Agreement and to have said records
audited annually by an independent auditing firm. The
County shall furnish, or cause to be furnished, to the
Municipality a copy of such annual audit within one hundred
twenty (120) days after the close of the fiscal year of the
System as established by the County. The County agrees to
maintain, or cause to be maintained, information in suffici-
ent detail to permit the Municipality to ascertain the costs
of both Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials acceptance,
processing and disposal services at the Facilities. Upon
reasonable notice by the Municipality, the County shall make
available, or cause to be made available, books and records
regarding the operation of the Solid Waste and Recyclable
Materials acceptance, processing and disposal services at
the Facilities pursuant to this Agreement.
14. Solid Waste Board/Executive Committee. (a) A
Solid Waste Board is hereby created consisting of a repre-
sentative appointed by the Municinality, together with the
representatives of other cities, villages or townships which
execute agreements substantially in the form of this Agree-
ment. The Municipality shall determine the term and method
of appointment of its representative on the Solid Waste
Board. The representative appointed by the Municipality may
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be either an elected or appointed officer or employee or a
resident of the Municipality. The Municipality may author-
ize its appointed representative to designate any other
office employee or resident of the Municipality to act as
the Municipality's representative in the absence of the
appointed representative. The Solid Waste Board shall elect
a chairperson, determine times and places of its meetings
and establish rules of procedure. The Solid Waste Board
shall meet at least once each year to select from its
members an Executive Committee and to consider such other
matters that it deems appropriate with respect to the
acquisition, operation and management of the System.
(b) The Executive Committee shall consist of eight
Solid Waste Board members elected as described below, the
Chairperson of the County Board of Commissioners or another
member of the Board of Commissioners -designated by the
Chairperson, the County Executive or his designee and a
Solid Waste Board member from each participating municipal-
ity in which a County-owned RRF, sanitary landfill or other
System Facility that requires an Act 641 permit is located.
In electing the eight persons to the Executive Committee,
the Solid Waste Board shall divide the participating munici-
palities into four geographic areas. Thereafter, Solid
Waste Board members from each of the four geographic areas
will elect two representatives each to serve on the
Executive Committee. The Solid Waste Board, at its discre-
tion, may appoint additional members to the Executive
Committee from participating municipalities in which other
System Facilities that do not require an Act 641 permit are
located.
(c) The Executive Committee shall elect a chair-
person, determine times and places of its meetings and
establish rules of procedure. The Executive Committee shall
meet at least once each month and shall advise, consult with
and make recommendations to the County regarding the acquis-
ition, operation and management of the System, including,
without limitation, the adoption of rules and regulations
relating to the operation of the System, the Disposal Fee
established pursuant to paragraph 10 of this Agreement and
the selection of additional System Facilities.
(d) The County shall not establish the Disposal Fee
pursuant to paragraph 10 until the County shall have given
at least thirty (30) days' notice to the Municipality of its
intent to fix or revise the Disposal Fee and of the date and
time a public hearing shall be held thereon by the County.
At such public hearing, members of the Solid Waste Board and
other interested parties shall be given an opportunity to be
heard. The County may thereafter fix or revise the Disposal
Fee in accordance with paragraph 10 of this Agreement.
15. Financinc. The County will finance the acqui-
sition, construction and equipping of the Facilities for
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the System by the issuance of County contract bonds issued
pursuant to Act 18& or the contribution of available County
funds, or both. The bonds will be paid from the Disposal
Fees received by the County for the processing and disposal
of Solid Waste and processing of Recyclable Materials and
from the -revenues derived from the sale of Recyclable
Materials and the sale of energy and other by-products of
any RRF, but the bonds will be full faith and credit limited
tax general obligations of the County payable from the
proceeds of certain ad valorem taxes levied for that
purpose, if necessary. Any bonds issued to finance the
Facilities will be equally and ratably secured by the
revenues of the System.
16. Release of Municinal Solid Waste Board Members
from Prior Oblications. If the Municipality is listed on
Exhibit B attached hereto, the county hereby releases and
discharges the Municipality from its obligations set forth
in Section 7.1 of the Intergovernmental Agreement for the
Disposal of Solid Waste, dated as of August 15, 1985,
between the County and the Municipality, relating to the
payment of certain planning, design and implementation
costs, and the County and the Municipality agree that said
Intergovernmental Agreement is hereby terminated.
17. Additional Provisions Relatinc to Resource
Recovery and Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland
County. If the Municipality is a member of the Resource
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Recovery and Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland County
("RRRASOC"), the provisions set forth in attached Exhibit C
shall apply to the parties hereto and shall become a part of
this Agreement. RRRASOC, by its execution of this Agree-
ment, approves and accepts the provisions set forth in
Exhibit C.
its. Miscellaneous.
(a) Effective Date. This Agreement shall
become effective on the date on which the County determines
that there has occurred execution of agreements substant-
ially in the form hereof by any combination of cities,
villages or townships within Oakland County in which an
aggregate minimum of 1,501L tons per day of Solid Waste is
generated. The County shall give notice to the Municipality
of the effective date of this Agreement. The Municipality
may unilaterally terminate this Agreement by written notice
to the County if the County has not given notice of the
effective date of this Agreement on or before December 31,
1990.
(b) Term. This Agreement shall be binding
and remain in effect until the expiration of the later of
(i) twenty (20) years from the effective date as determined
pursuant to (a) above, which term may be extended by agree-
ment of the County and the Municipality for up to four (4)
successive five (5) year periods, or (ii) the date on which
all bonds issued to finance any of the System Facilities are
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no longer outstanding. This 'Agreement shall continue and
remain in full force and effect as an independent and integ-
rated agreement between the Municipality and the County on
the terms and provisions set forth in this Agreement.
(c) Assianment. This Agreement, or any
interest therein, shall not be assigned, transferred, or
otherwise encumbered by the Municipality; provided, however,
that in the event all or any part of the Municipality is
incorporated as a new city or is annexed to or becomes a
part of the territory of another municipality, the municip-
ality into which such territory is incorporated or to which
such territory is annexed shall assume the Municipality's
obligations under this Agreement as it relates to such
territory. The Municipality hereby consents to the assign-
ment by the County of such of the County's rights and obli-
gations under this Agreement as the County shall determine
to be desirable to provide for the acquisition, construct-
ion, operation, maintenance and financing of any of the
Facilities.
(d) Amendments. This Agreement may be
amended from time to time by written agreement duly author-
ized and executed by the parties hereto; this Agreement
shall not be subject to any amendment which would in any
manner affect either the security of or the prompt payment
of principal or interest on any obligation of the County
incurred in financing any of the Facilities as evidenced by
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bonds, contract or lease. It is hereby declared that the
terms of this Agreement insofar as they pertain to the
security of any such obligation of the County shall be
deemed to be for the benefit of the holders, assignees or
beneficiaries thereof.
(e) Severability. If any provision of this
Agreement shall, for any reason, be held to be invalid or
unenforceable, the invalidity or unenforceability of such
provision shall not affect any of the remaining provisions
of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall be construed and
enforced as if such invalid and unenforceable provision had
not been contained herein.
(f) Termination. Neither the County nor the
Municipality shall have the right to terminate this Agree-
ment for any reason whatsoever, including breach or default
in the obligations of the parties and this Agreement shall,
for its term, remain in full force and effect and may at all
times be enforced by either party at law or in equity.
(g) Waiver. No waiver by either party of any
term or condition of this Agreement shall be deemed or
construed as a waiver of any other term or condition, nor
shall a waiver of any breach be deemed to constitute a
waiver of any subsequent breach, whether of the same or of a
different section, subsection, paragraph, clause, phrase or
other provision of this Agreement.
(h) Notices. All notices required or permit-
ted by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sent
by certified mail, return receipt requested, postage
prepaid, to the following addresses:
If to the County:
If to the Municipality:
(i) Captions. Captions or headings used in
this Agreement are for convenience only and in no way
define, limit or describe the scope or intent of any
provision or section of this Agreement.
(j) Governinc Law. This Agreement shall be
governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of
the State of Michigan.
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By:
I t s :
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this
Agreement on this day of , 1989.
WITNESSES: COUNTY OF OAKLAND, a Michigan
public corporation
By:
Its: Chairman', Board of
County Commissioners
By:
Its: County Executive
[MUNICIPALITY]
By:
Its:
By:
Its:
[Approved and accepted:
RESOURCE RECOVERY AND RECYCLING
AUTHORITY OF SOUTHWEST OAKLAND
COUNTY
. TMD/09004/0144/AD6/17
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EXHIBIT A
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to -
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR SOLID
PROCESSING AND DISPOSAL SERVICES
ASTE
In accordance with paragraph 5 of the Agreement,
the Municipality hereby elects to deliver or cause to be
delivered all Recyclable Materials (excluding Yard Clip-
pings) generated within its boundaries to the following
designated recycling facility:
In accordance with paragraph 5 of this Agreement,
the Municipality agrees to deliver or cause to be delivered
all Yard Clippings generated within its boundaries to the
following designated composting facility:
OR SOLID WASTE
EXHIBIT B
to
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT
PROCESSING AND DISPOSAL SERVICES
The following municipalities are members of the
Municipal Solid Waste Board organized pursuant to Inter-
governmental Agreements for the Disposal of Solid Waste,
each dated as of August 15, 1985, between the County and
each of the municipalities:
Township of Addison
City of Auburn Hills
Township of Bloomfield
Charter Township of Brandon
Village of Clarkston
Charter Township of Commerce
Township of Groveland
Charter Township of Highland
Village of Holly
Charter Township of Independence
City of Keego Harbor
City of Lake Angelus
Village of Lake Orion
Charter Township of Lyon
Charter Township of Milford
Township of Oakland
City of Orchard Lake Village
Charter Township of Orion
Charter Township of Oxford
Village of Oxford
City of Rochester
City of Rochester Hills
Township of Southfield
Charter Township of Springfield
City of Sylvan Lake
Charter Township of Waterford
Charter Township of West Bloomfield
Charter Township of White Lake
City of Wixom
Village of Wolverine Lake
TMD109004/0144/AE6/3
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EXHIBIT C
to
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR SOLID WASTE
PROCESSING AND DISPOSAL SERVICES
The following provisions shall be included in and
become a part of the Agreement if the Municipality is a
member of the Resource Recovery and Recycling Authority of
Southwest Oakland County ("RRRASOC"): 1
1. The County acknowledges that the Municipality
shall be obligated, pursuant to a contract with RRRASOC, to
deliver all Recyclable Materials (excluding Yard Clippings)
to the recycling facility to be owned by RRRASOC. In
connection with any financing of the RRRASOC recycling
facility, RRRASOC shall be entitled to pledge the contract-
ual obligation of the Municipality to deliver or cause to be
delivered all such Recyclable Materials to such facility.
2. In .furtherance of the Municipality's obliga-
tions under paragraphs 4 and 5(a) of the Agreement to
deliver all Solid Waste generated within its boundaries to a
County-designated Facility, the Municipality shall be !
entitled to deliver or cause to be delivered all such Solid
Waste to a transfer station to be owned by RRRASOC for
subsequent transfer to the County-designated Facility. The
County acknowledges that RRRASOC shall be entitled to act as
the Municipality's agent in delivering such Solid Waste to
the designated Facility. The Municipality and RRRASOC agree
that the.County shall be entitled to petition a court of
competent jurisdiction to compel either the Municipality or
RRRASOC to perform the foregoing obligations of the Municip-
ality under paragraphs 4 and 5 (a) of the Agreement.
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st
TXD/09004/0144/AZ8/3
Resolution # 89347 December 14, 1989
Moved by Hobart supported by McPherson the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, Johnson, R. Kuhn, Law, Luxon, McConnell
McCulloch, McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks, Olsen, Pappageorge, Pernick, Rewold, Wolf,
Aaron, Bishop, Calandro, Chester, Crake, Ferrens. (23)
NAYS: Skarritt. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal, do
hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the attached resolution,
adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at their regular meeting
held on December 14 , 19 89 with the original record thereof now remaining
on file in my office, and that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom,
and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said County at Pontiac,Michigan this 14th day of
D. ALLEN, County Clerk
gister of Deeds
7Tuty Clerk