32400 Paseo Adelanto Members of the City Council*

The majority of Orange County jurisdictions have not yet required their haulers to distribute residential containers that meet the CalRecycle standardized colors, leaving legacy and often incorrect or illegible labeling and embossing in place. City Response: The City lacks knowledge and information regarding other cities' waste hauler operations and franchise agreements sufficient to reach this conclusion.

While a jurisdiction may not delegate its overall responsibility for compliance with State requirements to a hauler, some jurisdictions have designated the task of imposing and collecting fines from residents to the hauler in accordance with State law. However, not all jurisdictions are clear on who ultimately receives and retains the collected fines. City Response: The City lacks knowledge and information regarding other cities' financial practices sufficient to reach this conclusion.

All jurisdictions will eventually start collecting fines from residents for non-compliance, but some have not yet determined whether the revenues will go into a waste and recycling enterprise fund or into the jurisdiction's general fund. Grand Jury Talking Trash: Recyclables and Organic Waste September 10, 2024 The City lacks knowledge and information regarding other cities' financial City Response: practices sufficient to reach this conclusion. In most jurisdictions, education and outreach is a joint effort between jurisdiction, hauler, and

sometimes consultants, with the jurisdiction reviewing the materials before publication. The methods of dissemination vary by jurisdiction and hauler but frequently rely on a resident actively seeking the information, which requires the resident to have some awareness of the new mandates in the first place. Most efforts primarily revolve around intermittent hard-copy paper mailings. The City lacks knowledge and information regarding other cities' outreach City Response: programs sufficient to reach this conclusion. Most jurisdictions currently have no way to accurately determine the effectiveness of their

respective education and outreach efforts other than the eventual inspections or audits that will take place. City Response: The City lacks knowledge and information regarding other cities' education programs sufficient to reach this conclusion. There is some concern that there are not enough composting facilities in Orange County to process

all organic waste, forcing some jurisdictions/haulers to transport it long distances for processing. City Response: The City agrees with the finding. There is currently no infrastructure in the county that is a State-approved source of Renewable

Natural Gas (RNG) and energy from organic waste. Jurisdictions that use vehicles running on RNG procured from non-approved sources cannot count that RNG towards fulfillment of their procurement requirement. City Response: The City agrees with the finding. The formula used by the State to calculate a jurisdiction's procurement target does not account for a

jurisdiction's population density or geographic size (square miles). As such, meeting the annual procurement target presents a significant challenge for most jurisdictions. City Response: The City agrees with the finding. Many Orange County jurisdictions were unable to meet the requirement in SB 1383 to reduce

organic waste sent to landfills by the 2020 deadline. It is unlikely the required seventy-five percent reduction will be achieved by the 2025 deadline. City Response: The City lacks knowledge and information regarding other cities' operations sufficient to reach this conclusion. The current procurement requirements mandated by SB 1383 are unrealistic and likely

unachievable by most jurisdictions. San Juan Capistrano: Preserving the Past to Enhance the Future Grand Jury Talking Trash: Recyclables and Organic Waste September 10, 2024 City Response: The City lacks knowledge and information regarding other cities' procurement practices sufficient to reach this conclusion.