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• MEASURES TO COMPLY WITH CALIFORNIA SENATE BILL 1383, NPDES STORMWATERREGULATIONS, AND AMENDMENTS TO THE ATHENS

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• haven't been here for awhile. Thank you. I'm here to speak about a subject that pains me. It's called the Athens
• two audits by state agencies. Both of them were extremely critical of the city about because of the Athens contract
• 18. Tonight. This agenda item has several parts, regulatory compliance, the city's business practices, how much Athens is going
• gross receipts as a franchise fee to the city. And Athens kicks back to the city $300,000 to be used at
• the city's description discretion. Option one is the better option for no party except Athens option one, add services to the
• Athens contract that has nothing to do with refuge collection or SB 1383 compliance. Those unrelated services are graffiti
• those services. Athen kick Athens kicks back to the city. $1.2 million annually that's $1.2 million does not come out of
• Athens profits. It comes directly out of the residents' pocketbooks. The residents that you represent, The Athens contract amendment
• raises another of other concerns as well. Due to time limitations, I will mention just one. The Athens contract has that
• audits, adding services to the Athens evergreen contract and adding those services without competitive bidding is inappropriate and violates
• . I was going to speak on the Athens, but I don't think I can add any more to what previous speakers have
• , readjusted their grievances. We welcome that and we're glad they're here. Um, four of our speakers tonight spoke about the Athens
• , who is our contract, um, representative of our contract street sweeper that Athens contract would, if amended for
• in services or across seven categories. These regulations have prompted changes to our current trash agreement with Athens
• in which Athens would provide at least 100 hours per week of graffiti removal services valued at 550,000, a
• recovery program, uh, with the cog and to either amend the agreement with Athens to either include the
• , continue negotiations with Athens. That concludes my presentation. And at this time I'll take any questions. Okay. Any
• questions of staff? Okay. Um, I've got a question. How about, um, have we had discussions with Athens related to
• Wednesday Athens we got in while we'll be the proper charge. So in that way, Alice, we don't have to
• with Athens. We have at least another, you know, 26 years together. Uh, and so, you know, I think, you
• out right. The cost to the residents and, you know, Athens, you know, does have a guarantee for the
• we should keep this separate from a contract with the Athens. I think that we should move forward with having
• negotiations with Athens so that we're not rushed because we are rushed right now. I mean, we have this, this
• continue negotiations with Athens And the other part, this, uh, Councilman to by mentions that we're going to see
• negotiate with the Athens. Okay. To find a common ground is my emotion. And if you could, uh, reach out
• , at least strong emphasis, um, to look at alternative options of how to work with Athens, um, related to
• option three, which is to continue to negotiate with Athens. All right, Correct. Yeah. In the fashion, I mentioned

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• eager to offload, uh, the responsibility to keep the city graffiti free to Athens, which is, which is a tax increase
• , uh, when we pay the, uh, increased fees to Athens. But, uh, on the contrary, they, the council seems eager to

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• consultant or will Athens handle all of the reporting requirements and provide the reports to the city? And if so, the
• . We are finishing the contract to shift those responsibilities to Athens, and that will be presented to the city council
• with Athens, um, actively right now, Mr. Agee had some questions about a code enforcement matter, and I will follow

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• MEASURES TO COMPLY WITH CALIFORNIA SENATE BILL 1383, NPDES STORMWATER REGULATIONS, AND AMENDMENTS TO THE ATHENS

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• removal service citywide, which Athens service waste monopoly may soon provide using higher franchise fees. Utility taxes increase costs
• , uh, Athens. Wow. I have such mixed feelings about Athens and I probably shouldn't say anything, but I'm gonna anyway. Uh
• , first of all, Athens is the Cadillac plan and if we didn't have Athens, I think we would all miss it
• . And that's in no way an endorsement for Athens because they, frankly, they pissed me off a couple of times. Uh
• another, another trash company. Um, Athens is pretty responsive to, uh, you know, special requests. We have there a big
• park without Athens. And, uh, so I wouldn't want to have to be one of the people making that decision about Athens
• Athens contract, which is on agenda for council consideration tonight. There's some new state laws which transfer many, many new
• by the new Senate bill change. So with that, I'll entertain any questions. And the, uh, holler is Athens is also
• . You have a, And Mike, if I may, I'll have Athens kind of address that because they provided these numbers, um
• the cities that Athens service or this is just general? No, those are cities that Athens and does, and does not
• service they're both. There are other haulers, Some, some is Timbo CDs on the Athens. Yes. Yeah. And it's some, a
• about relationships very much here, but I'd like to start by wanting you to understand this contract in this way. Athens
• state auditor was, was, I mean, not only, uh, the, the 25 year evergreen with Athens, but, but getting into these
• , if now the, the, the median, the graffiti and the street sweeping is swept into this Athens contract, um, in 20, 28
• from, from, from Athens perspective, um, you know, to, to provide these, you know, uh, three items, uh, at over $2 million
• , um, w I, what is, what is Athens get from this, right? This is a right. It's not like you're in the
• . Athens is a partner in that, but make no lie. It's very expensive for us for the first seven or eight
• Athens, uh, and then right in LA, right. W we're we're, we're creating a situation where that, that evergreen clause
• smart residents and they know the value of Athens. And they're not, they're not here complaining about it. There's
• can, But it says city attorney, The council has come in, call it up. But again, I think Athens would have
• comparative rate chart for the other cities that we had as part of this PowerPoint, these weren't all Athens
• to take your direction if you want me to reach out to other of, of Athens client cities to gauge
• that Athens, um, residents doesn't have a complaint with Athens, like I've mentioned, and, and you've delivered exceptional
• Athens. Well, the company there, um, and the facility is very clean, but I just, with this, we just want
• , we don't question that we love Athens. It's just, we want to make sure their residents are getting the

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• this email is, uh, Gary Clifford, you do have an association with Athens services. So saying that is, uh, I

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• pickup is. If you have any questions, um, you can go to Athens, uh, services.com for additional information about your
• I think, um, you know, is, is it possible way to also leverage some of our sponsorships, like with Athens and

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• the director of governmental affairs for Athens and he has a brief PowerPoint. We have copies of the presentation on the table here in
• , Could you use the microphone work? We're broadcasting this and recording it. Thank you. Hi, I'm Gary Clifford from Athens and
• , are now going to go in with the green. And I want to be clear. That's not an Athens decision. That's not a west
• have to comply with that law. And they're going to have Athens make sure that we develop a program that will make this
• education is on your trashcan, whether it's a sticker or as you replace them, Athens services is putting a QR code
• . So you get compliance because what you need to know is, you know, I have to, I meaning Athens, Brian and I
• . So now you're to see the Athens trucks, you're going to see the little Athens Jeeps. You're going to see people
• entities. So right now there would be a page for collections that would be pertinent that Athens and the city would be
• for 1383, there is potentially a cost in it, not a profit for Athens. There's a cost in doing that new
• . We'll do it as long as there's no LA county restriction or other restriction, or we get nobody at Athens wakes up
• to do. Uh, one, one thing in our stead here is that in, in Athens, we have a valuable community partner. It's

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• . Um, I'll follow up on those questions of the Volkis the illegally disposed items. Um, we're fortunate here with Athens
• it's only four times a year, or they have that one year spring. So if Athens can just disseminate the information

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• citizen requests about bulky item pickups. This is a program available through Athens, which seems to be working really well
• don't need to bring it anywhere. But, um, just as a reminder, people can go online to the Athens website. We've got

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• facility at the police station. Um, you know, it's, it's, uh, Athens really helped us out with, uh, bins to use