ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Interim Director of Public Works with a Request to APPROVE a CONTRACT with WASTEQUIP, in an Amount Not to Exceed $59,154.94, to Purchase Two Hundred 60 Gallon Dome Top Litter Containers to be Used for Neighborhood Trash Cans. [All Council Districts]
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BACKGROUND: As part of the 2018 Solid Waste Collection contract, PDC will collect trash from up to 250 neighborhood trash cans once a week on the regular collection day. The trash cans must be serviceable by PDC’s automated equipment. Currently there are 201 neighborhood trash cans (concrete and metal) that are emptied by a neighborhood or business volunteer. These cans are not serviceable by automated equipment and must be replaced in order for PDC to collect. This purchase will provide replacement cans.
Most of the can locations will stay the same, but some existing can locations may need to move in order to be reached by automated equipment. If there is no place to move the can to allow them to be serviceable by automated equipment, the existing can will stay.
There is an eight week lead time on the neighborhood cans. Once the cans arrive at the City, they have be assembled and delivered. The existing cans will require heavy equipment to remove them. We are estimating 8 weeks to remove the existing and place the new cans. The can replacement may last through September.
Due to funding restrictions, we are only able to purchase 200 cans in 2019, but plan to purchase 50 more cans in the future.
Specs and images of the new cans are attached, as well as images of the existing cans for comparison.
Public Works will be collecting the old neighborhood trash cans and keeping them at our facility on Darst Street. Should a neighborhood association desire to utilize an old trash can as a neighborhood planter, the City will work with them. However, the old cans will not be utilized as additional trash cans.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: Funds for the cans will come from the refuse collection fund.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: Neighborhood trash cans will be serviced by PDC instead of a neighborhood or business volunteer.
IMPACT IF APPROVED: Neighborhood trash cans will be replaced with cans serviceable by PDC’s automated equipment.
IMPACT IF DENIED: Neighborhood trash cans will continue to be maintained by neighborhood or business volunteers.
ALTERNATIVES: N/A
EEO CERTIFICATION NUMBER: Wastequip is in the process of applying for EEO certification.
WHICH OF THE GOALS IDENTIFIED IN THE COUNCIL’S 2017 - 2032 STRATEGIC PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION ADVANCE?
1. Safe Peoria
2. Beautiful Peoria
WHICH CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S) FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION IMPLEMENT?
1. Reinvest in neighborhoods.
2. Have an efficient government.
DEPARTMENT: Public Works