Within the last 10 days, MMBC has sent letters to local governments and First Nations that had residential packaging and printed paper (PPP) or garbage curbside collection as of November 19, 2012 offering a collection financial incentive to provide PPP curbside collection to residents. Where these local governments and First Nations also provide multi-family building and/or depot collection of PPP, the letters also included information on these incentives.
The letters outline the amounts that MMBC will pay for each type of service when the MMBC program launches in May 2014 and asks that local governments and First Nations reply to MMBC by September 16, 2013 indicating their intention to accept or decline the incentives.
MMBC also posted information on its website about multi-family building collection incentives and depot collection incentives for those local governments not providing PPP or garbage curbside collection as of November 2012, private companies and not-for-profit organizations.
MMBC has developed two graphic ‘decision trees’ to aid local governments, First Nations, private companies and not-for-profit organizations in moving through the sequence of decisions and activities by collectors and by MMBC. The decision trees are now posted on the MMBC website:
The first step for collectors is to complete the Collector Response Form indicating the decision to accept or decline MMBC’s financial offer and submit it to us no later than September 16, 2013.
We recognize that the timing may be challenging for some local governments and First Nations given the frequency of board and council meetings during the summer. By mid-September, it will be less than eight months to start up which is a very short time frame for us to complete the next stages: preparing and executing the hundreds of collector service agreements and statements of work; and implementing requests for proposal to select contractors to provide curbside collection services where local governments and First Nations decline the incentive and to provide post-collection services.