GREAT WESTERN RECLAMATION, INC.1976

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,�` MINUTES OF THE ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA August 18, 1975 The meeting was called to order in Room 831 , City Hall , 20 Civic Center Plaza, at 12 :15 P.M. by Mayor John Garthe , proper notice and posting having been accomplished, with affidavits on file in the office of the Clerk of the Council . The following Councilmen were present : Gordon Bricken , Harry K. Yamamoto , Vernon S. Evans , James E. Ward, and Mayor John Garthe . Councilmen David L. Brandt and David F. Ortiz were absent. The following staff members were also. present : City Manager Bruce C. Spragg, City Attorney Keith L. Gow, Director of Planning Charles C. Zimmerman, Assistant Director of Public Works John Stevens , Assistant Fire Chief Raymond H. Bachtelle , and Clerk of the Council Florence I . Malone . Lynn O' Dell , reporter for "The Register", was also present . PARAMEDIC PROGRAM The City Manager added to his status report dated August 12 , with an oral presenta- tion, using charts which described the paramedic program and its costs over the past ten months . He stated that a second paramedic unit should be in operation by December 1976 , at which time the existing unit would be used for standby purposes ; that under a proposed contract with the Santa Ana-Tustin Community Hospital , recommended user fees would be billed and collected by the hospital , at a cost of $3. 00 each; and that no one would be refused service because of inability to pay the user fee . He further added that although the Board of Supervisors had not acted to designate the Santa Ana-Tustin Community Hospital as a paramedic base training hospital, the Board had requested a report from the County Administrative Officer on the current training situa- tion for firemen paramedics within three weeks. . CA 64. 2 TRASH RATES The City Manager referred to his reports of August 1 and 13 , regarding a recommended 11% refuse rate increase to maintain the program on a self-supporting basis for fiscal year 1975-76 , and stated that the increase amounted to 20¢ more per, month for the single family home owner (from the present 51. 80 to $2 . 00) . He further stated that the refuse contractor, Great Western Reclamation, had requested a retroactive rate adjust- ment because of increased labor costs which would amount to 30¢ per water meter, commencing May 1, 1975 and ending April 30 , 1976 , at which time it would advance to 40¢ per water meter through April 30 , 1977, with a final increase of 50¢ per water meter commencing May 1 , 1977 ; that the administration does not have enough information to make a good judgment on the merit of the request, because it involves the profitability of the franchise . He commended the contractor' s services , and suggested that the -Council support the 11% increase in trash rates recommended by the staff, and authorize an audit of the residential and commer- cial services performed by the contractor, to include the possibility of an extension of the contract, with a target date of December, 1975 for report and recommendation to the City Council. He pointed out that the contractor' s request would require a 70¢ increase (from $1. 80 to $2. 50 per month) for the single family homeowner trash rate . CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 345 AUGUST 18 , 1975