REQUEST FOR DECISION
DATE: June 29, 2020 Report No. EPW-20-019
TO: Laurie Hurst, Chief Administrative Officer
FROM: Jeff Miller, Director of Engineering and Public Works
SUBJECT:
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Interim Report on Integrated Resource Management
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
That Council receive the interim report for information and direct staff to commence a public engagement process.
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RELEVANT POLICY:
Solid Waste Collection and Disposal Bylaw, 2014, No. 2815
STRATEGIC RELEVANCE:
Healthy, Livable and Diverse Community - develop and implement strategies that reduce impact on the environment consistent with our Climate Action Goals.
Local Services and Infrastructure - Identify long term financial requirements for local services and infrastructure, promote opportunities to share services where operationally and financially beneficial.
BACKGROUND:
The origin of this project began in 2018 with a Notice of Motion after the Capital Regional District abandoned the idea of an Integrated Resource Management (IRM) philosophy. Through Staff Reports EPW-18-019 and EPW-19-032, a request for proposal (RFP) was developed. The RFP would review the waste streams of solid waste, kitchen scraps, yard/garden, and sanitary waste latent heat and how an IRM philosophy could be employed to manage them. Council also provided direction that gasification be the treatment technology for the solid waste streams. The RFP was released in 2019 and work began in 2020.
The original scope of the work was to develop the report with a public engagement component and then present the final report to Council. However as the public engagement process was about to commence the COVID-19 Pandemic started. The scope of work was then modified to include the production of an interim report (see Attachment 1) with public engagement to occur in a virtual environment after Council reviewed the interim report.
The highlights of the report include:
* Potential location of the gasifier pl...
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