Title
A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Apply For And, If Awarded, Accept Grant Funds From The Community Foundation Of Broward Through The Be Bold Prize To Launch A Resource Recovery Pilot Initiative In The Amount Of $1,000,000.00; Authorizing In-Kind Services And Funding To Equal The 25% Required Contribution; Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Execute All Applicable Grant Documents And Agreements.
Strategic Plan Focus
Resilience & Sustainability
Body
Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
As a progressive City with a commitment to resilience and sustainability, Hollywood has long been at the forefront in South Florida in the provision of efficient and responsible management of solid waste and recycling collections and efforts to promote waste reduction and reuse. This has included single stream recycling, recycling incentive programs and the recent extension of the ban on single-use plastics on the City's beaches, facilities and properties.
In December of 2020, the Community Foundation of Broward put forth the Be Bold Prize Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking bold ideas that could be set into motion quickly to help get Broward residents impacted by pandemic-related job losses back to work. As part of the City's Sustainability Action Plan adopted by the City Commission in 2017, the City established a goal of 2,000 households composting their food waste by 2025 and 30% of food waste being composted City-wide. The City's proposal for the Be Bold Prize is to create a pilot resource recovery initiative through the formation of an employee owned and operated cooperative, Reclaim Broward, that will create new job opportunities for Hollywood residents related to the collection and composting of food and yard waste. If awarded, the $1,000,000.00 Be Bold Prize would provide the seed money needed to create this pilot composting cooperati...
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