1990-117-Opposing Assembly Bill 4298RESOLUTION 1990 -117
RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL
OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
OPPOSING ASSEMBLY BILL 4298
WHEREAS, the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos is committed to
implementing recycling and waste reduction plans and programs in order to meet the
requirements of the California Integrated Solid Waste Management and Recycling Act (AB
939,1989); and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 4298 by Assembly Speaker Willie Brown would,
if adopted, dismantle the processing fee provision of the state's beverage container recycling
and litter reduction act as agreed to by industry, environmentalists, recyclers and local
government officials in 1986; and
WHEREAS, the processing fee requires beverage container manufacturers to
pay the cost of recycling their containers when the scrap value is not sufficient; and
WHEREAS, the net cost of recycling glass and plastic beverage containers in
California in 1989 was in excess of $10 million, and in 1990 is projected to be $15 million
the deletion of the processing fee as proposed in AB 4298 will require recyclers and local
government to cover that cost and in effect subsidize the recycling of glass and plastic
beverage containers;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
1. Oppose Assembly Bill 4298 currently moving through the state legislature.
2. Convey our opposition of AB 4298 to Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, our
assembly and senate representative(s), and the California League of Cities and County
Supervisors Association of California.
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3. Direct our legislative representative to join with representatives of the League of
Cities, Sierra Club California, the Planning and Conservation League, the California
resource Recovery Association, the Northern California Recyclers Association and
Californians against Waste in working to defeat AB 4298.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the
Town of Los Gatos, California, held on the 4th day of June, 1990, by the following vote:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
AYES: Joanne Benjamin, Eric D. Carlson,
Robert L. Hamilton, Brent N. Ventura,
Mayor Thomas J. Ferrito
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SIGNED:
ATTEST:
MAYOR
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CLERK OF THE TOWN OF7 OS GATOS
LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA
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