City Council
MEETING DATE: 5/25/2016
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Amendment No. 2 to the Edom Hill Transfer Station Mitigation Agreement with the Riverside County Waste Management Department
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FROM:
Pat Milos, Community Development Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council authorize Amendment No. 2 to the Edom Hill Transfer Station Mitigation Agreement with the Riverside County Waste Management Department allowing additional time to implement project related improvements.
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Cathedral City and the County of Riverside previously entered into an agreement on November 5, 2002, which was subsequently amended April 21, 2009, to resolve matters related to issues surrounding the Edom Hill Transfer Station and related improvements.
DISCUSSION:
The City has completed the following improvements as indicated in the Mitigation Agreement; construction of traffic turn lane pockets including asphalt overlays of the entire roadway at Varner Road, Date Palm Drive and Edom Hill Road, repair structurally damaged roadway along Edom Hill Road and overlay Edom Hill Road with 1.5' asphalt.
The County recognizes that in 2014, tonnage delivered to Edom Hill Transfer Station was significantly lower than the projected 2,600 tons per day; therefore, the traffic conditions requiring installation of traffic signals and a climbing lane were not met. The City agrees to maintain the requirements identified in the Mitigation Agreement; however, the timing of such improvements shall be based upon tonnage delivered to the Edom Hill Transfer Station, not date specific. The County concurs that the reduction in tonnage has affected the timing of the improvements in the amended agreement.
The revised schedule proposed within Amendment No. 2 allows the City to replenish the funds to complete the improvements without allocating any general fund dollars to the improvement projects.
It is staff's recommendation that City Council ...
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