Riverside County Waste Management Department

R1

The County must publicize the existence of “Speak Out!” to all Waste Management Department employees, as well as provide frequent information about this program to County employees and County residents.

R2

The County HR Department must receive a copy of all written memorandums, i.e., Directive Memorandums, Corrective Memorandums, and Corrective Counseling Confirmation Memorandums. HR must dispose of these copies after one year. Department supervisors must adhere to Waste Management Department Policy A-10, “Records Retention.”

R3

Agency/department heads, managers, and supervisors must receive mandatory training by the Center for Government Excellence, focusing on the areas provided in the “Better Riverside County Supervisor Competency Clusters”: • Communicating Effectively • Inspiring Others • Managing Diverse Relationships • Being Open and Receptive HR will document and ensure there is frequent and ongoing training of supervisors and managers, which is provided by the Center for Government Excellence in its Management and Supervisory Excellence Academies.

R4

Board Policy C-21 and Department Policy B-12 must be enforced, holding managers and supervisors accountable for failure to comply. The Riverside County Executive Office must require HR to devise, or cause to be devised, a tracking system to identify upcoming annual employee evaluations. This procedure must provide a specific completion date. Failure on the part of department management to adhere to the completion date will result in formal disciplinary action.

R5

Board Policy C-21 (5, d) “Employee Performance Evaluation Reports” must be reworded to say “will” instead of “should.”

R6

In accordance with Board Policy C-27, managers and/or supervisors, as well as other employees who are guilty of using derogatory, racially-inflammatory 6 remarks and/or behavior must be subject to appropriate corrective action and follow-up disciplinary action per the Zero Tolerance policy. The Board will enforce Policy C-27 II “Zero Tolerance Standard” Enforcement: b. All reports of threats and violent behavior, implied, actual, direct, or indirect, will be documented and investigated. Such documentation shall include a narrative of the incident including names and other appropriate identification of the parties involved, verbal comments made or a description of the violent behavior, witness names, and witness statements. The Board will enforce Policy C-27 III “Responsibilities” D (see Attachment 2). (Also see Recommendations 1 & 4) Report Issued: 06/13/12 Report Public: 06/15/12 Response Due: 09/11/12 7 Administrative Division The Administrative Division provides support services for the daily push, pack, and cover operations of the landfill. This includes: • Administrative Services (transfer station and contract oversight) • Administrative Support (Legislative Analysis, Training, Recruitments, Personnel, Document Management) • Information Technology (Network Administration, Database Administration, Web Development, Software Development) • Planning • Safety • Fleet (Fleet Administration, Equipment Procurement, Store Warehouse, Equipment and Vehicle Maintenance) • Gate Fee • Accounting, (General Accounting and Reporting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Purchasing, Budget and Financial Analysis) • Payroll Engineering/Operations Division The Department oversees many active, inactive and closed landfill sites that the Engineering/Operations Division must design, permit, construct, operate and maintain. When one thinks about the work performed, thoughts immediately go to the Badlands and Lamb Canyon Landfills, (the) major active sites. However, there are still many inactive and officially closed landfill sites that require equal or even greater amounts of time in permitting and maintenance than (the) major active landfill sites do. Most activities are performed in-house, with little use of consultants. Activities include: • Design (preparing grading plans, hydrology studies, soil loss analysis, seismic and stability studies, hydraulic calculations, traffic plans, designing state of the art liner systems, etc.) • Permitting (preparing necessary documents to obtain permits and operating the site in compliance with federal and state landfill regulations) Attachment 1 8 • Construction Management (preparing contract documents, performing construction oversight of public works contracts, etc.) • Operations (overseeing the daily “push, pack, and cover” operation of burying refuse) • Refuse Control (litter control, illegal Dumping Cleanup Program, Post Closure Maintenance) Environmental Division The Environmental Division oversees a variety of support activities to the daily push, pack, and cover operations at the site. This includes: • Environmental monitoring To control landfill gas, the Department’s Air/Gas Section designs, o permits, operates, and maintains landfill gas collection and flare stations, and performs air quality monitoring. To protect ground and surface water from contamination, the o Department’s Water Section designs, permits, operates, and maintains groundwater monitoring and remediation systems and performs groundwater and surface water sampling. Leachate management. o • Load Check Program • Traffic Direction Program • Recycling at the Landfills • Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program • Recycling (AB 939 Compliance, Business Recycling and Household Recycling Public Education) • Composting Program Attachment 1 9 Workplace Violence, Threats and Securities C-27 III. RESPONSIBILITIES D. Agency/district/department heads must: