Submitted By: Tiffany Stewart
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Presentation By: Darren Park
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Department: Public Works
STAFF RECOMMENDATION (Motion Ready):
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Approve the use of multiple cooperative purchasing agreements for the purchase of three solid waste roll-off compactor trucks and ten compactor units in the amount of $1,129,587
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OCALA'S RELEVANT STRATEGIC GOALS:
Quality of Place, Operational Excellence
PROOF OF PUBLICATION:
N/A
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BACKGROUND:
The Public Works Sanitation Division collects solid waste within the city limits of Ocala. Collection of solid waste from commercial customers and multi-family complexes has historically utilized dumpsters ranging in size from two to eight cubic yards with service up to six times per week.
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS:
Dense, rapid development and the limitation of the short block design in downtown Ocala have created challenges and opportunities.
The challenges have been finding adequate space to place enough dumpsters, a capacity issue, to efficiently collect the increasing amount of solid waste generated by businesses as infill and redevelopment compete for space, maintain cleanliness, and protect public health. The solution is to replace dumpsters with self-contained compactor units in several downtown locations. Dumpsters in the city-owned alleys behind the Brick City Southern Kitchen & Whiskey Bar and the Ivy House will be replaced with 20-cubic yard self-contained compactor units. The dumpsters at the end of SE 2nd Street adjacent to the Bank Street Patio Bar, in the parking lot behind the Marion Theatre, and Lot 7 south of American Pawn will also be replaced with self-contained compactor units.
Citywide, Ocala has experienced an upsurge in both entitlement and construction of multi-family development. The Sanitation Division can easily service the amount of solid waste generated by these developments. The developers of these complexes are increasingly requesting the service be provided with roll-off ...
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