Kittitas SWMP Update_Approved_(2020-07-09)

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2020 Solid Waste and Moderate Risk Waste Management Plan Update AX0304191054PDX 10-1 10. Implementation This section contains the proposed implementation strategy for the Plan. It includes: funding, the list of recommended action, implementation schedule, and proposed expenditures for each action. Priorities, funding and expenses for this Plan are intended as guidelines which will and can be reassessed and revisited as developments occur. With this thought in mind, recommendations throughout this Plan reflect yearly reviews of programs and recommendations by the SWAC. Implementation of the recommendations made in this Plan will take place on a continuous basis. The time required to implement recommendations vary from a few weeks or months for single events, to ongoing programs that take place over many years. 10.1 Funding Priorities and funding in this plan cover six years (2020 - 2025). Actual budgets to carry out the recommendations will vary from year to year as specific programs are defined and will depend on annual budgets approved by the Board of County Commissioners. In Kittitas County there are two primary sources of funds for implementation of the solid waste programs: one source is derived from a portion of the tipping fees; the other source of funds is derived from grants obtained through Ecology. Table 10-1 details current revenues and is consistent with Table 4.1.3 of the Cost Assessment Questionnaire in Appendix F. 10.1.1 Grants Chapter 70.95 RCW outlines the intent and requirements for funding derived from the Solid Waste Management Account and established with the State Treasury. It is from this account that funding is administered and appropriated by the Washington State Department of Ecology in the form of the Coordinated Prevention Grant (CPG). This funding is allocated to the County after application is made to the Department of Ecology and requires a 25 percent match on the part of Solid Waste Programs. Funding available from the CPG has changed over the years, and will do so in the future, depending on legislative requirements. In the event grant funding is reduced or eliminated, programs that are funded by these grants will need to be reevaluated and either eliminated, curtailed, or if continued, funded using alternative methods, such as an increase in tipping fees or other revenue sources. 10.1.2 Tipping Fees Tipping fees are the fees charged for waste hauled to the transfer stations. A portion of these fees are set aside for the grant matches, administrative costs, operation, maintenance, recycling costs, testing, equipment and fees to Environmental Health. 10.1.3 Other Methods of Funding Chapter 36.58A RCW provides for the creation of Solid Waste Collection Districts in counties and cities within the State of Washington. The establishment of such districts can also be used to finance all aspects of solid waste disposal and disposal activities and is deemed the only certain way to establish a solid base of fees from which to operate in the future. The only prerequisite for the establishment of Solid Waste Collection Districts in the County is an approved Solid Waste Management Plan. Although the statute does not say that the Plan must refer to Districts; inclusion of Districts in the Plan as a recommendation would assure that, should the County choose in the future to create Collection Districts, reviews of the ordinance by WUTC and others would be less costly and take place in a timelier fashion. ~