2019 Rate Supported Budgets - Solid Waste Management Services and Recommended 2019 Solid Waste Rates and Fees

3. City Council authorize that the necessary amendments be made to Municipal Code Chapter 441 - Fees and Charges, and any other necessary Municipal Code Chapters as may be required, to give effect to these Recommendations. 4. City Council grant authority to the City Solicitor to introduce any necessary Bills required to implement these Recommendations, subject to any necessary refinements, including stylistic, format and organization, as may be identified by the City Solicitor, the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, and General Manager Solid Waste Management Services. 5. City Council direct the following Renewable Natural Gas Initiatives: a. Fully exempt the Solid Waste Management Services renewable natural gas initiative, including any and all environmental attributes that may result from the program, from the City's Carbon Credit Policy; b. Place net revenues that the City derives from the future sale of renewable natural gas and/or any associated environmental attributes generated under the Solid Waste Management Services renewable natural gas initiative in the Solid Waste Management Reserve Fund XR1404 for the exclusive use of Solid Waste Management Services, which will be used to fund projects identified within the Council approved Long Term Waste Management Strategy and other environmentally sustainable initiatives; and c. Allow only Solid Waste Management Services to hold any unsold environmental attributes associated with the Solid Waste Management Services renewable natural gas initiative on behalf of the City, and the authority to sell the attributes. 6. City Council direct that all the rates, fees and charges set out in Appendix A to this report, adopted by Council in Recommendation 1 above, continue in full force and effect until such time as they are amended or repealed by City Council. 7. City Council direct the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services, and the Executive Director of Financial Planning, to develop a Multi-Year Financial Strategy and rate structure for the Department and report back to Budget Committee. 8. City Council authorize the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services, or their designate, to develop and implement a Single Family Residential Low-income Relief Program in accordance with the description provided in the report, dated January 30, 2019, from the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services, and the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, including, but not limited to, automatic enrollment for certain qualifying customers.