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City of Santa Ana Attachment A• Client Testimonial Letters <br />Request for Proposals (RFP) for Solid Waste Consulting Services <br />RFP NO.: 18-006 <br />Sz��t[tER Cyt, City of Whither <br />4 <br />0 8 <br />t= 13230 farm Street, WhIftDr, Ca9famis 80602-1772 <br />.-0 (662)07.9500 <br />October 2, 2017 <br />Leith Ezzel, CMC <br />SeniorVice President <br />HF&H Consultants, LLC <br />19200 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 360 <br />Irvine, CA 92612 <br />Dear Leith: <br />I would like to (hank you and your team for providing the technical expertise to finalize <br />solid waste collection franchise agreements with Republic and Athens Services. As <br />you know, the City had previously gone through a RFP process with another <br />consulting firm in order to award a franchise agreement for the entire City. Going from <br />a three -zone system with two private haulers and City crews to one private hauler for <br />the entire City proved to be controversial. The RFP process ended in a referendum <br />hailing the award of the franchise agreement. <br />You and your team were tasked with negotiating long-term agreements with two <br />haulers to service two separate City zones. Council's requirement to have the rate <br />schedules In both, franchise agreements match added complexity to the negoli©8on <br />process. You were able to accomplish this while also negotiating vakiable <br />Improvements from previous agreements including: <br />• An increased franchise fee <br />• A fair price for the purchase of City -owned equipment by one of the haulers <br />• A 50 -hour per week porter to maintain the Uplowrt commercial district <br />• Free roll-out service for residents with disablltfles <br />• 48 special clean ups per year from each hauler to include homeless <br />encampment clean ups. <br />Thank you again for your support and professional expertise during the negotlelion <br />process. Pubile Works Manager, Vlckl Smith, and I are available to dl=ss the <br />process by phone at 662,567.9500 or by email at dschlckting@cltyofwhittler.org or <br />vsmith@cltyofwhittier.org. <br />Sincerely, <br />Davld Schlckling <br />Director of Public Works <br />April 4, 2018 Page A-6 HF&H Consultants, LLC <br />�1 1� i A <br />