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Board signs off on equipment-use agreement form to deploy SB 1383 grant purchases, asks for reporting
Summary
The board approved a template equipment-use agreement that will let the authority retain ownership of items bought with an SB 1383 CalRecycle grant while permitting community partners to use them; commissioners asked staff to return with informational reports listing recipients and high-value purchases.
The Solid Waste Management Authority approved a standardized equipment-use agreement template tied to a CalRecycle SB 1383 local assistance grant so the authority can retain ownership of purchased items while making them available to community partners.
Staff said the grant supports purchases for food-rescue contractors and composting partners and that, under grant terms, the authority must retain ownership of equipment it buys. "This equipment belongs to this agency, and it's available for their use for the indefinite future, under those conditions of the equipment use agreement," the director said while explaining the template's purpose.
Commissioners expressed concern that the draft agreement is generic and asked for more detail on who would receive equipment and the value of items. One commissioner said he was "very hesitant to have an open-ended undisclosed" distribution of grant-funded equipment and asked for safeguards so high-ticket items would not be handed out without board oversight. The director responded that large-ticket items (for example, vehicles) would not be purchased without board involvement and that smaller items would follow the standard agreement; staff said they have a stack of partner requests and that CalRecycle grant staff have vetted the proposed equipment.
The board moved, seconded and approved the equipment-use agreement form. Commissioners also reached consensus that staff should provide an informational report at a future meeting listing purchased items, recipients and the intended use of that equipment.
What's next: staff will proceed with purchases as permitted by the grant and return to the board with an informational listing of equipment purchases and recipients, and the board asked that purchases above an agreed threshold (staff said $5,000) come to the board for review before finalizing.
