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Organization: City of Santa Clarita
Date: October 15, 2008
What's Happening with the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Santa Clarita?
As part of their waste contract for business and commercial waste services in the City of Santa Clarita, Burrtec Waste Inc. is required to build a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in the Santa Clarita Valley. This task has proven to be difficult, especially with regard to the site selection portion. At the request of the City Council, the City's Public Works staff drafted a public process for the selection of a new committee that will help the City Council select that site. The recommended process will involve a new Site Selection Committee of 15-20 members to accomplish this task.
Solid Waste Sub-Committee and City Councilmembers Laurene Weste and Marsha McLean both agreed to recommend to the full City Council a process to include the community by creating a new Site Selection Committee to help select a site for the Valley's MRF. The Sub-Committee will bring the item to the Santa Clarita City Council for consideration after the first of the year.
The process outlined by the Sub-Committee provides for the new Site Selection Committee to be facilitated by Robert Newman, Public Works Director, and to include representation from a wide variety of interested parties to include a representative from: Val Verde, Castaic Town Council, West Ranch Town Council, Canyon Country Advisory Committee, Saugus Action Committee, Newhall Redevelopment Committee, Valencia area representative, SCV Chamber of Commerce, Sierra Club, two Santa Clarita City Councilmembers, L.A. County 5th District, L.A. County Public Works and four open seats to be selected by the Solid Waste Sub-Committee.
The goals of the City's MRF Site Selection Committee will be to educate members about the MRF, the City's requirements for mandated diversion, and provide an overview of where the City has been with regard to the MRF site selection. The Committee will visit other MRF operations, listen to and address the concerns of residents, as well as help establish and prioritize important criteria for the site selection. The Committee will also be charged with working closely with L.A. County on the evaluation process and provide two or three viable locations for the MRF to recommend to the City Council next summer.
A series of eight meetings have been outlined to provide a process for the new Committee. The meeting agendas will include an orientation, site visits to other MRF's, brainstorming, a site selection criteria and prioritization process, narrowing down potential sites based upon criteria and presentation to the City Council on the Committee's findings.
For additional information regarding the MRF Site Selection Committee, please contact Robert Newman, Public Works Director, at 661-284-1429.
