Res 2023-133R approving a grant agreement with The Recycling Partnership that provides funding to the City in an amount up to $133,000.00, plus additional in-kind contributions, to fund a pilot program for a multifamily recycling valet service

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RECYCLING PARTN ERSHI P.ORG Attachment B: Work Plan a. Background: The Grantee is a city of approximately 25,732 households in central Texas. The Grantee operates a multifamily recycling program where residents at serviced properties are instructed to bring their household recyclables to on-site enclosures with city-provided recycling carts. Approximately 12,000 household units are included in this multifamily recycling program. Recyclables from this program are collected by city staff using city operated vehicles and are transported to a MRF operated by Texas Disposal Systems in Creedmoor, Texas for recycling. In the most recent year the Grantee estimates that its multifamily recycling program collected 309 tons of recyclable materials. In 2020, The Partnership administered an earlier grant to the Grantee to measure the effectiveness of three(3)multifamily recycling approaches at 29 multifamily properties. For this project,residents at 13 properties received only recycling education, residents at 11 properties received education plus in-unit bins for collection, and residents at 5 properties received in-unit bins, education, and doorstep or door-side service recycling. Doorstep recycling refers to a service where residents place materials separated for recycling collection outside of their apartment unit's front or entry door for collection. The doorstep recycling service vendor then transports the material that was placed outside the apartment doors to a centralized collection area for consolidation. During the project, the units that received all three intervention techniques recycled approximately 2 more pounds per household unit per week after the project than before the strategy's implementation. Therefore,his approach was determined to be the most effective collection method. As a result of the strong outcome associated with the earlier effort,the Grantee is considering the implementation of jurisdiction-wide doorstep recycling collection for multifamily households. The purpose of this grant is to support the implementation of a pilot program that will operate for six(6) months that will provide key learnings that are intended to help the Grantee consider and prepare for the possibility of implementing such a permanent jurisdiction-wide program b. Project Description: The Partnership will provide grant funding to support the service fees associated with the provision of weekly doorstep recycling service to approximately 3,500 multifamily units in Grantee's jurisdiction for six(6)months. The Grantee is considering budget funding in 2024 to implement doorstep service to all the multifamily properties it services, and the Grantee intends to use the data and insights gained by this project to design a request for proposals for permanent, city-wide doorstep multifamily service that would serve approximately 12,601 units in total. 12