CC RESOLUTION 5418RESOLUTION NO. 5418
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE TERMS OF THE LOS
ANGELES AREA INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT AND THE
CITY'S MEMBERSHIP IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA
INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY AND
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE
AGREEMENT.
The City Council of the City of El Segundo does resolve as follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. The Los Angeles Regional Agency ("LARA") is a consortium of 18 large
and small member cities in Los Angeles County formed by
environmentally conscious recycling advocates and representatives from
these cities.
B. In 2004, the California Integrated Waste Management Authority Board,
now known as CalRecycle, approved the formation of LARA as a regional
agency whose mission is to to promote environmental responsibility
through the state -mandated reduce, reuse, and recycle philosophy set
forth in California Assembly Bill 939, known as the California Integrated
Waste Management Act of 1989.
C. LARA was formed as a joint powers authority, pursuant to Government
Code § 6500, et seq., pursuant to the LARA joint powers agreement (the
"Agreement"), which is on file with the Public Works Department and
presented within the City Council agenda for this resolution as an
attachment to the staff report accompanying this resolution.
D. The City supports and seeks to join LARA's efforts to efficiently integrate,
share, and combine resources and information in order to reduce the cost
of reporting and tracking of disposal and diversion programs by individual
jurisdictions and counties and to increase the diversion of solid waste from
disposal facilities.
E. Pursuant to Agreement § 11.2, the City has submitted a written request to
join LARA to the LARA governing body, and LARA requires El Segundo
City Council action by resolution to evidence the City's membership with
LARA.
SECTION 2: Pursuant to Government Code § 6500, et seq., the City Council approves
the terms of the Agreement and authorizes the City's membership in LARA.
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SECTION 3: The City Manager is authorized and directed to execute the Agreement, or
any associated documentation, to effectuate the intent of this Resolution. The City
Manager, or designee, is authorized to take such reasonable actions as may be
required to implement the intent of this Resolution.
SECTION 4: The City Clerk is directed to certify the adoption of this Resolution.
SECTION 5: This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and will
remain effective unless superseded or repealed, in which case the City will withdraw
from LARA, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of June, 2023,
Drew Boyles, Mayor
"TTEST: `
Tracy Wea r, City Clerk
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Mark D. ffiensley, City Attorney
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CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Tracy Weaver, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
Resolution No.5418 was duly passed and adopted by said City Council, approved and
signed by the Mayor Pro Tem, and attested to by the City Clerk, all at a regular meeting
of said Council held on the 6th day of June, 2023, and the same was so passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Pro Tern Pimentel, Council Member Pirsztuk, Council Member
Giroux and Council Member Baldino
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Boyles
ABSTAIN: None
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this VIL day of June, 2023.
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acy Weaver, City Clerk
of the City of El Segundo,
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