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(E) A jurisdiction implements or enforces an ordinance, policy, procedure, condition, or initiative that is prohibited. (F) A jurisdiction fails to submit the reports required. DISCUSSION SB 1383 requires jurisdictions to address and adequately resource seven areas as required by the regulations. City staff along with consulting firm HF&H have prepared a DRAFT SB 1383 Action Plan which outlines actions and cost estimates of implementing the programs and activities required and provide recommendations for how to implement the law. The seven areas areas are as follows: 1. Provide organic waste collection services to all residents and businesses. Organic waste is defined in the regulations to include green waste, wood waste, food waste, manure, and fibers. Collection containers must have prescribed colors (any shade of grey or black for trash, green for organic waste and blue containers for traditional recyclables) and container must be labeled as required by the regulations. There are additional provisions to monitor contamination in the waste stream during the collection process. The City has an established Organic waste program for both residential and commercial customers however participation in the program will now be mandatory under the requirements of SB 1383. Currently, when a residential customers subscribes to service they select the size of the solid waste cart and automatically receive a 96-gallon mixed recycling cart (blue lid) and organics cart (green lid). Any residential customer who currently does not have a mixed recycling and/or organics cart will be issued one and will be required to properly sort their garbage and materials into the appropriate carts. Currently commercial customers are required to have a solid waste and mixed recycling. Under SB 1383 all commercial customers will also be required to subscribe to organics service. All commercial customers will be required to subscribe to solid waste, mixed recycling and organics service. 2. Monitor compliance and conduct enforcement. Monitoring and education must begin in 2022 and enforcement actions must start Jan 1, 2024. The City will be required to adopt ordinances and/or other enforceable policies and procedures as well as develop a monitoring and enforcement program. The monitoring program is comprised of several required activities: • Conduct contamination monitoring through garbage pickup route reviews annually and notify generators if contamination is found. • Conduct compliance desktop review of all commercial solid waste account and all multi-family account to ensure subscription to mixed recycling and organics service annually. Page 5 of 9