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Clerk 09/21/2006
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A MOTION authorizing the chair of the council to execute a contract for the coordination of the independent review of the solid waste transfer and export system plan.
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WHEREAS, the regional leadership of the county solid waste management community, pursuant to the direction of the King County council provided for in 2004's Ordinance 14971, has been engaged in an extensive, multiyear process to prepare for the closure of the Cedar Hills landfill and the export of the region's solid waste stream upon its closure, and
WHEREAS, in directing this process through Ordinance 14971, the council emphasized the participation of stakeholder interests, represented by the metropolitan solid waste management advisory committee, the solid waste advisory committee and the interjurisdictional technical staff group in preparation and review of planning and reporting processes leading to the development of a solid waste export plan for council adoption, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 14971 also called for an independent review of the assumptions, strategies and remaining issues of the proposed plan as a check of the direction and validity of the proposed plan, and
WHEREAS, stakeholder groups have undertaken to identify and propose questions and focus areas that should be the subject of review by that independent review process, and
WHEREAS, such groups have indicated support of the preliminary Solid Waste Transfer and Export System Plan, but have qualified that support upon the results of the independent review process, and
WHEREAS, the process envisions the convening of an expert panel which would be supported with appropriate background materials and planning information, and which would be assembled for review and discussion of the preliminary plan and the identified questions, and
WHEREAS, funding has been set aside by the council to support the retention of a consultant to coordinate this process, to assure appropriate objectivity...

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