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port/on of the settlement. The Council is now being asked to make the determination that the proposal meets the criteria of the Settlement Agreement and to authorize the County of Alameda to release the funds to the EBRPD. Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND In 1999 the City of Pleasanton entered into a settlement agreement with the County of Alameda, the City of Livermore, the Sierra Club, Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA), Altamont Landowners Against Rural Mismanagement (ALARM), and Waste Management of Alameda County (WMAC), Inc. The settlement resulted from litigation over the expansion of Altamont Landfill. Please refer to Exhibit A, attached, for details of the agreement. As part of the settlement, the parties to the litigation agreement agreed that the County would impose a fee totaling $1.25 per ton at the Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility. The jurisdictions currently paying this fee are Oakland, San Francisco, Alameda, San Leandro, Castro Valley, Oro Loma, Albany, Hayward, and Dublin. The fees are collected on a per tonnage basis for use of the landfill. The collection of fees results in a continuous, yet variable funding source. The funds are disbursed into three accounts: Education Account, Host Community Impact Account, and an Open Space Account. The fees are to disbursed as follows: · $0.25 per ton to the Education Account · $0.25 per ton to the City of Livermore for host community impacts · $0.75 per ton to the Open Space Account The use of the funds is distributed based on an 80/20 percent split between the entities specified in the settlement agreement. Eighty percent (80%) of the fees collected are designated for the other organizations and 20 % of the fees collected are designated for the City of Pleasanton. The boundaries for the funding distribution are shown on Exhibit C. The Advisory Committee The settlement also required the creation of an advisory committee. The Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility Open Space Advisory Committee ("advisory committee") was created to oversee the collection and distribution of the funds generated by the settlement agreement. The committee established a grant application process that would allow it to review proposals based on their merit and public benefit. In 2004 the advisory committee began accepting grant applications for projects that would meet the mission of the advisory committee and the intent of the settlement agreement. The agreement requires the advisory committee to designate an entity; the EBRPD would be the assigned entity SR 05:062 Page 2 of 6