In construing the provisions of this chapter, the following definitions are applicable:
"Annual recovered organic waste product procurement target" means the amount of organic waste in the form of a recovered organic waste product that the city is required to procure annually under 14 CCR Section 18993.1. This target shall be calculated by multiplying the per capita procurement target, which shall be 0.08 tons of organic waste per California resident per year, times the city's residential population using the most recent annual data reported by the California Department of Finance. Annually, CalRecycle will provide notice to each city of its annual recovered organic waste product procurement target by posting such information on CalRecycle's website and providing written notice directly to the city.
“Bidder’s list” shall mean a list of responsible prospective vendors capable of providing the services or items being bid upon.
"City" means the City of La Puente.
"Compost" means the product resulting from the controlled biological decomposition of organic solid wastes that are source separated from the municipal solid waste stream or which are separated at a centralized facility or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 17896.2(a)(4). Compost eligible for meeting the annual recovered organic waste product procurement target must be produced at a compostable material handling operation or facility permitted or authorized under 14 CCR Chapter 3.1 of Division 7 or produced at a large volume in-vessel digestion facility that composts on-site as defined and permitted under 14 CCR Chapter 3.2 of Division 7. Compost shall meet the state's composting operations regulatory requirements.
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“Cooperative bid” is when several government agencies join together to create one bid document combining all agencies product volume for consideration of the bidder in determining the unit cost.
"Direct service provider" means a person, company, agency, district, or other entity that provides a service or services to the city pursuant to a contract or other written agreement or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(17).
"Electricity procured from biomass conversion" means electricity generated from biomass facilities that convert recovered organic waste, such as wood and prunings from the municipal stream, into electricity. Electricity procured from a biomass conversion facility may only count toward the city's annual recovered organic waste product procurement target if the facility receives feedstock directly from certain permitted or authorized compostable material handling operations or facilities, transfer/processing operations or facilities, or landfills, as described in 14 CCR Section 18993.1(i).
“Emergency” for purposes of public projects has that meaning provided in California Public Contract Code Sections 22035 and 22050.
“Equipment” means furnishings, machinery, vehicles, rolling stock, and other personal property used by the city in its operations.
“Goods”, also referred to as “supplies”, means office supplies, janitorial supplies, materials, tools, or other commodities used in the general conduct of the city’s business, excepting supplies or materials for a public work which is regulated under the California Public Contract Code Sections 20160, et seq.
“Maintenance work” has that meaning provided in section 22002(d) of the Public Contract Code, as that section may be amended from time to time, and shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Routine, recurring, and usual work for the cleaning, preservation, or protection of any publicly owned or publicly operated facility for its intended purposes.
(2) Minor repainting.
(3) Resurfacing of streets and highways at less than one (1") inch.
(4) Landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming, pruning, planting, replacement of plants, and servicing of irrigation and sprinkler systems.
"Organic waste" means solid wastes containing material originated from living organisms and their metabolic waste products including, but not limited to, food, green material, landscape and pruning waste, organic textiles and carpets, lumber, wood, paper products, printing and writing paper, manure, biosolids, digestate, and sludges, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(46). Biosolids and digestate are as defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(4) and 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(16.5), respectively.
"Paper products" include, but are not limited to, paper janitorial supplies, cartons, wrapping, packaging, file folders, hanging files, corrugated boxes, tissue, and toweling; or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(51).
“Piggyback” means use of another public agency’s existing contracting and/or bidding procedures to purchase the same product(s) as outlined in the awarding bid document.
"Printing and writing papers" include, but are not limited to, copy, xerographic, watermark, cotton fiber, offset, forms, computer printout paper, white wove envelopes, manila envelopes, book paper, note pads, writing tablets, newsprint, and other uncoated writing papers, posters, index cards, calendars, brochures, reports, magazines, and publications; or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(54).
"Procurement of recovered organic waste products" shall mean purchase or acquisition (e.g., free delivery or free distribution from a hauler or other entity via a written agreement or contract), and end use by the city or others. The city's annual recovered organic waste product procurement target can be fulfilled directly by the city or by direct service providers through written contracts or agreements for procurement of recovered organic waste products at the city's behest.
“Professional services” means any work performed by an artist, attorney, doctor, architect, engineer, environmental consultant, land surveyor, construction manager, appraiser, expert, accounting firm, consultant or those services such as computer services, and transportation/transit operator services.
“Public works has meaning provided in Section 22002(c) of the Public Contract Code, as that section may be amended from time to time, and shall not include maintenance work. Public works shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) Construction, reconstruction, erection, alteration, renovation, improvement, demolition, and repair work involving any publicly owned, leased, or operated facility.
(2) Painting or repainting of any publicly owned, leased, or operated facility.
"Publicly-owned treatment works" or "POTW" has the same meaning as in Section 403.3(r) of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
“Purchase” includes renting, leasing, licensing, or a trade of equipment or supplies.
The “purchasing officer,” is the city manager or his/her designee.
"Recordkeeping designee" means the public employee appointed by the City Manager or their designee to track procurement and maintain records of recovered organic waste product procurement efforts both by the city and others, if applicable, as required by 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12, Articles 12 and 13.
"Recovered organic waste products" means products made from California, landfill-diverted recovered organic waste processed at a permitted or otherwise authorized operation or facility, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(60). Products that can be used to meet the annual recovered organic waste product procurement target shall include compost, SB 1383 eligible mulch, renewable gas from an in-vessel digestion facility, and electricity procured from biomass conversion as described herein and provided that such products meet requirements of 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12, Article 12.
"Recyclability" means that the paper products and printing and writing paper offered or sold to the city are eligible to be labeled with an unqualified recyclable label as defined in 16 Code of Federal Regulations Section 260.12 (2013).
"Recycled-content paper products and recycled-content printing and writing paper" means such products that consist of at least thirty percent (30%), by fiber weight, postconsumer fiber, consistent with the requirements of Sections 22150 to 22154 and Sections 12200 and 12209 of the Public Contract Code, and as amended.
"Renewable gas" means gas derived from organic waste that has been diverted from a landfill and processed at an in-vessel digestion facility that is permitted or otherwise authorized by 14 CCR to recover organic waste, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(62).
"SB 1383" means Senate Bill 1383 of 2016 approved by the Governor on September 19, 2016, which added Sections 39730.5, 39730.6, 39730.7, and 39730.8 to the Health and Safety Code, and added Chapter 13.1 (commencing with Section 42652) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, establishing methane emissions reduction targets in a statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants, as amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced from time to time.
"SB 1383 eligible mulch" means mulch eligible to meet the annual recovered organic waste product procurement target, pursuant to 14 CCR Chapter 12 of Division 7. This SB 1383 eligible mulch shall meet the following conditions for the duration of the applicable procurement compliance year, as specified by 14 CCR Section 18993.1(f)(4):
1. Produced at one of the following facilities:
i. A compostable material handling operation or facility as defined in 14 CCR Section 17852(a)(12), that is permitted or authorized under 14 CCR Division 7, other than a chipping and grinding operation or facility as defined in 14 CCR Section 17852(a)(10);
ii. A transfer/processing facility or transfer/processing operation as defined in 14 CCR Sections 17402(a)(30) and (31), respectively, that is permitted or authorized under 14 CCR Division 7; or,
iii. A solid waste landfill as defined in Public Resources Code Section 40195.1 that is permitted under 27 CCR Division 2.
2. Meet or exceed the physical contamination, maximum metal concentration, and pathogen density standards for land application specified in 14 CCR Sections 17852 (a) (24.5) (A) 1 through 3.
"SB 1383 Regulations" or "SB 1383 Regulatory" means or refers to, for the purposes of this policy, the Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP): Organic Waste Reductions regulations developed by CalRecycle and adopted in 2020 that created Chapter 12 of 14 CCR, Division 7 and amended portions of regulations of 14 CCR and 27 CCR.
"State" means the State of California.
(Ord. 977 § 2, 2021: Ord. 18-953 § 2 (part), 2018)