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RESOLUTION NO. 11.051
A RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE PUBLIC WORKS
DEPARTMENT TO PERFORM CITY YARD WASTE COMPOST;
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, Arkansas law requires that the City provide some type of service for the
collection and compost of yard waste within the City, and that such material not simply be
placed in the City's sanitary landfill, and
WHEREAS, the City has maintained a contract with a private contractor to provide
compost services to the City, and this contract will expire on June 24, 2001, and
WHEREAS, after a competitive bid process, for which the City submitted a bid to
see how its proposed cost to handle this service internally compared to private contractual
costs, and
WHEREAS, the City was the only entity to submit a bid, but with the addition of
certain personnel and the purchase of certain equipment the City Manager is comfortable
that the Public Works Department can provide this service to the citizens in a cost effective
manner,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
Section 1. The City Manager is authorized to require that the Public Works
Department become responsible for the collection and composting of yard waste from
addresses within the corporate limits of the City.
Section 2. To the extent that additional personnel will be required to fulfill the
City's obligations for this service, particularly when the current contract expires on June 24,
2001, and to the extent that additional equipment will need to be purchased to assist with
this effort, the City Manager is directed to identify such costs and to provide for the
expenditures as may be required including, but not limited to, an amendment to the current
City budget ordinance, and the provision of expenditures in future City budget ordinances.
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Section 3. Severability. In the event any title, section, paragraph, item, sentence,
clause, phrase, or word of this resolution is declared or adjudged to be invalid or
unconstitutional, such declaration or adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of
the resolution which shall remain in full force and effect as if the portion so declared or
adjudged invalid or unconstitutional was not originally a part of the resolution.
Section 5. Repealer. All laws and parts of laws are hereby repealed to the extent of
such inconsistency.
ADOPTED: April 17, 2001
ATTEST:
Nan6 Woo ( ,City Clerk —'
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
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Thomas M. Carpenter, City ttorney
APPROVED:
Jim ailey, Mayor