The municipality finds as follows:
A. It is necessary for and in the best interests of the municipality to regulate and control the collection, transportation and disposal of municipal waste in the exercise of its police power in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of its residents.
B. The municipality is authorized pursuant to article VII, section 6 of the Illinois constitution, 65 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-19-1 et seq., and 5 Illinois Compiled Statutes 220/3.2 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act to provide for the method or methods of collection, transportation and disposal of municipal waste within its corporate limits and to provide that the method chosen may be the exclusive method to be used within the corporate limits.
C. The municipality acting pursuant to article VII, section 10 of the Illinois Constitution and 5 Illinois Compiled Statutes 220/3.2 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act has entered into an intergovernmental agreement with twenty five (25) other north and northwest suburban Cook County municipalities, thereby creating the agency to provide an efficient and environmentally sound municipal waste disposal system.
D. The municipality intends to enter into a project use agreement by which the agency will acquire, construct, operate, equip and improve a municipal solid waste project to provide for the disposal of system waste of the municipality and other members of the agency.
E. Under the project use agreement, the municipality is obligated to establish a municipal waste disposal system, to cause system waste collected within its corporate limits to be delivered to the agency, and to make certain payments to the agency, all as described in the project use agreement.
F. It is necessary and in the best interests of the municipality to provide for the environmentally sound and efficient collection, transportation and disposal of system waste by creating a municipal waste system, by providing for the disposal of system waste by delivery to the agency and to impose the rates and charges provided for herein.
(Ord. 2221, 3-10-1992)