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The committee shall be advisory to the county council and the county executive on all matters relating to solid waste management within the county. In particular, the committee shall:
(a) Review and offer recommendations on the ten-year solid waste management plans for the county.
(b) Investigate and make recommendations on systematic programs and alternative methods, both public and private, for the storage, collection, transportation, processing, disposal and resource recovery of solid wastes, including sludge.
(c) Evaluate the impact of the solid waste management program on citizens, institutions, business and industry throughout the county.
(d) Recommend methods to assure public involvement in solid waste planning and develop educational programs to inform the public on all aspects of solid waste management.
(e) Recommend local and state legislation necessary to accomplish effective solid waste management.
(f) Review and comment on the annual county budget for solid waste activities.
(g) Submit to the county executive and county council, and make available to the general public, an annual report of the activities of the committee. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1.)
(a) The Committee may elect a chair, vice-chair, and other officers, establish subcommittees of its members and other subcommittees from outside its membership, and adopt bylaws to conduct its affairs.
(b) The Committee meets in public session on call by the chair as frequently as necessary to perform its duties, but not less than once each quarter of any calendar year. Reasonable notice must be given for all meetings. A majority of the members is a quorum for the transaction of business, and a majority vote of those members present at any meeting is required for any action. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; FY 1991 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1; 2005 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 1.)
The Committee must not engage in any advocacy activity at the State or federal levels unless that activity is approved by the Office of Intergovernmental Relations. (2016 L.M.C., ch. 15, § 1.)
The chief administrative officer shall make available to the committee administrative and staff services and facilities necessary to assist the committee in its work. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; FY 1991 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1; 2016 L.M.C., ch. 15, § 1.)
Editor’s note—Former Section 48-42, solid waste collection advisory subcommittee, derived from 1981 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; 1995 L.M.C., ch. 18, § 1, was repealed by 2005 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 1.
(a) There is hereby established a separate solid waste fund, which must be used to fund expenditures for the collection of solid waste in the solid waste collection district established under section 48-29 and for the provision of base and incremental solid waste management services countywide. Such subsidiary funds as are necessary for segregation of costs and revenues of separable elements of the program must be established in the solid waste fund. Such subsidiary funds must include separate funds for the collection program and for the base and incremental solid waste management services programs. In this article, the term "solid waste" includes pathological waste.
(b) The director of finance must credit to the solid waste fund revenues from fees collected under this chapter, collection charges in the solid waste collection district, systems benefit charges and solid waste charges collected for the use of county solid waste acceptance facilities.
(c) Expenditures from the solid waste fund for collection service in the collection district and for countywide base and incremental solid waste management operations, including depreciation and debt service on facilities for such operations, must be authorized by appropriation by the county council.
(d) The solid waste fund must be maintained and managed so that revenues equal expenses for each subsidiary fund; except that contributions from the general fund may be appropriated by the county council to subsidize a portion of the costs or to cover emergency needs, unusual capital expansion or unplanned deficits not covered by adjustments of collection charges, system benefit charges and solid waste charges. To the extent that annual expenses exceed or are less than annual revenues, solid waste collection charges system benefit charges and solid waste charges must ordinarily be adjusted at least annually to fund such deficits or to utilize such surpluses. When necessary to fund anticipated future expenses or provide multiyear funding of short-term deficits, retention of surpluses over a multiyear period is permitted. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; 1986 L.M.C., ch. 67, § 1; 1992 L.M.C., ch. 39, § 1.)
(a) The county may enter into multiyear contracts for the collection and disposal of solid waste to the extent that the county council has provided appropriations sufficient to fund such contracts. Appropriations by the county council must specify the revenues to be derived from collection charges and disposal fees as well as other revenues as may be necessary to fund the appropriations.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), section 11B-8(a), or any other provision of county law governing multiyear contracts, the chief administrative officer, on behalf of the county, may enter into and amend multiyear contracts with the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority or any other party, including contracts authorized by section 3-915 of the Natural Resources Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, if;
(1) The facilities or services provided by the authority or another party under the contract or amendment are described in a notice of intent submitted to the county under section 3-920 of the Natural Resources Article; and
(2) The notice of intent specifically proposes that the county enter into or amend a multiyear contract for the described facilities or services under this subsection; and
(3) The notice of intent has not been disapproved by the county council during the 120-day period described in section 3-920 of the Natural Resources Article; and
(4) The county council has not, within forty-five (45) days after receiving the final draft contract or amendment and a notice that the chief administrative officer intends to sign the contract or amendment in that form, disapproved the contract or amendment by resolution. The provisions of subsection (a) and section 11B-8(a) requiring annual appropriations and a termination provision for any multiyear contract do not apply to any contract authorized under this subsection. However, every multiyear contract or amendment authorized by this subsection must permit the county to terminate its obligations under the contract or amendment for convenience if the county provides the contracting parties with amounts sufficient to defray costs and obligations that the parties have incurred in accordance with the contract or amendment. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 1; 1988 L.M.C., ch. 41, § 1.)
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