recology bid on that back in 2009 we're able to keep the rates for the city. now there is two parts to the rate there is basic landfill and -- for solano county they're 7-and-a-half for the feets -- which is more than $20 at the current contract. still quite favorable, given the current contract goes back to 1987. for the organ why is waste, it's slightly less, only $0.30, i will get to back that. then the components does change over time on the cost of living for the san francisco region i want to talk about additional fees, that are the most innovative part of this agreement, we have two types of feeing one is excess disposal in or agreement to go towards 0 waste that starts out current disposal, and by the end of 2020, we have a 0 waste gol. 2020, is a 0 waste goal we have to drop over 50,000 tons every year down to 20/21, every ton that's above that target we pay an extra fee of $five, we expect we will be paying some tonnage for that that goes into a dedicated 0 waste account, recology goes into a separate waste account, a second fee is a sustainability f

management but overall, recology was less expensive bid by the other. taking 5 million ton, they are to apply for a permit to haul all the way in, you are looking at the bidding process, decided they needed to do an environmental review for the rail spur once they initiated that environmental review, san francisco decided to join as a responsible party. thank you. responsible agency to that environmental review once that vier in a minute review was under way that looked at the rail hall component the city couldn't have an agreement and so the agreement had already been approved through that process by the board, and actually signed, so that agreement was terminated. so then now what is happening is the environmental is under way, after going forth for a while, recology came in february of 2014, they concluded, given delays in the environmental review and permitting, in order for them to complete the environmental review and permits and construction for facilities of the rail hall that could not be done in time, given we needed something by the end of th

recology's offer is to use their landfill in uba county, and transporting, by rooking to uba county. this is more expensive than waste management but overall, recology was less expensive bid by the other. taking 5 million ton, they are to apply for a permit to haul all the way in, you are looking at the bidding process, decided they needed to do an environmental review for the rail spur once they initiated that environmental review, san francisco decided to join as a responsible party. thank you. responsible agency to that environmental review once that vier in a minute review was under way that looked at the rail hall component the city couldn't have an agreement and so the agreement had already been approved through that process by the board, and actually signed, so that agreement was

today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle it is a great educational tool. since then we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual

this supports the need for 0, waste, i appreciate your comment, i think we can explore that with recology about how can we support local hiring in their hiring process. >> it's a nice thing for the rate payers too. it's already happening any way. peer 96 is a phenomenal model, if entry level jobs are created, you said what i was hoping to hear these will be collectively bargained opportunities, the partnerships, for the team steers is a great one for the communities. if there is potential to do that, it's page 28. on this component, it gives the green light for continued innovation, and something that is exiling about this as well. >> i will quickly say there say real opportunity for the future 0 waste facility, this related to that we work with ecology on planning that say separate project, some of this money can go towards the facility and employs people. >> great. thank you. further questions? all right. this is a discussion item. we can go to public comment. thank you jack. mr. pilpal? >> as an individual i agree with jack's summary, this is complicated, what jack didn't mention is th

periodically bringing the groups together there say lot of conservations, goodwill has been talking to recology department of the environment, has become a hub for bringing the teams together so we can divert dekz tiles in a coordinated manner, >> okay. one of the reasons i ask is because there was a bin -- i'm going to make this real tight, i can go down the rabbit hole with them -- i take my son on a pony ride, at mar vis sa, they have pony rides for five bucks, i think it went up to ten, there say bin that says bring your textiles i thought, is this a program, it's daily city right at the conner line do we have something similar? it seems to me that textile -- recapturing textiles, away from landfills, and resues has a lot of components there, i remember coming back to the staff saying yeah, i got a photo of it nobody had heard of it it was like something p happening at a pony ride. so that's why i asked about coordinating that around textiles, we know textiles is a big part of the last 20% to get to 0 it seems to be great there's coordination happening >> and the website, recycle where.org,

. >>> a recology garbage truck hit and killed a pedestrian in san carlos west of highway 101 at hollyeet and el camino real. police are investigating that collision. >>> san leandro police have recovered the truck that hit and killed a 26-year-old woman. they are still looking for the driver. the victim died in the hospital from her injuries. it happened yesterday morning on hesperian boulevard and thornally drive. >>> a hero bus driver was honored today for helping save a 3-year-old boy who had been kidnapped. vta bus driver tim watson was given a commendation by the city of milpitas. the kidnapping happened this month. he was driving a normal route when he got an alert on the phone that a child had been kidnapped from the library. the description matched a young boy who just got on the bus with a man. watson says his instincts kicked in. >> i just reacted. nothing came to my mind except i read the message and i reacted, i reacted, i reacted. and didn't think about it. just -- when i went back to look at the boy's more description i wasn't really focused on the suspect. when i saw th