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corporate limits of the City of Pleasanton. In 1990, the franchise agreement was amended to include a residential recycling program, including a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) located at the Pleasanton Transfer Station. AB939 required that cities and counties use 1990 as a "base year" and that they account for all wastes generated in the base year, including all landfill, recyclable, composted, reused and "source reduced" materials. This was a large task; some landfills at this time did not yet have scales and some did not weigh incoming loads, even if a scale was available. The Alameda County Waste Management Authority (WMA) was one of the first agencies to create a process to respond to the requirements set forth in AB939. WMA executed a master contract with a firm to develop a countywide Waste Generation Study and individual SRRE's (Source Reduction and Recycling Element) for each member agency. The City of Pleasanton's SRRE was produced by the contracted firm. A SRRE was a state-mandated plan that each city and county were required to develop and submit showing what they generated, what their current level of diversion was, and how they intended to get to 25 percent diversion rate by 1995 and 50 percent diversion rate by 2000. Each year the City is required to submit an annual diversion report to the CIWMB. While the City and PGS have worked together to implement several aggressive diversion programs, including the implementation of a local mixed waste processing facility, the City has experienced varied success in meeting the 50 percent diversion requirements of AB939. The main reasons the City has not met the diversion rate requirements are due to the demographics having significantly changed since 1990 (e.g. number of businesses, number of homes), a higher awareness of recycling amongst residents and businesses, and the range of programs and services offered by the City and PGS has changed since the original base year study in 1990. Staff proposes that the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with R3 Consulting Group, Inc. to conduct a new base year study. The scope of work will be conducted using the CIWMB Diversion Study Guide approved by the board in 2001. R3 will work with the CIWMB in developing the final methodology as part of the work effort. The scope of work will include the following tasks: Document request and review - Included will be an initial planning meeting with the City and PGS staff, document retrieval including all disposal, biomass, ADC and compost facility forms; listings of all local facilities such as the Fairgrounds and Hacienda Business Park; Residential Diversion Activities - Collection and analysis will include green waste, food scrap collection, drop-off and buy-back recycling center activities; MRF processing and diversion; holiday tree recycling; and local recycling activities; Commercial Diversion Activities - Large businesses and institutions in the City will be identified and documented for the diversion tonnages; large venue and facility recycling; restaurant recycling including compo sting, grease and tallow collection; paper gobbler program; SR:05:288