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unprocessed clippings, prunings and leaves can be dropped for free by both residential and commercial customers at either the Kailua or Hilo transfer stations. The County's vendor shreds the material. The shreds/mulch is made available to the public for free. In 2003, DEMpublished an RFP to initiate an Organics Diversion program. Vendors were asked to submit proposals to develop a value-added US Composting Council certified compost product from greenwaste and some combination of "optional" organic waste as proposed by the vendor. Optional materials could be untreated lumber, food waste, gypsum, cooking oil, and biosolids. Until proposals were received and opened in June 2003, DEM could not begin to estimate the costs that would be associated with actual composting and additional diversion of organic portions of the waste stream. The increase of 73% in our funding request for FY 2004-05 for what is now being referred to as Organics Diversion is required because: • The budget established for FY 2003-04 of $600, 000 to process greenwaste is insufficient to cover the processing of the estimated 17,600 tons of new material that will be dropped at the two processing sites during this fiscal year. There was a backlog of unprocessed greenwaste at the beginning of this fiscal year, due to insuficient funding for the previous year's greenwaste program. As the funding is again insufficient for FY2003-04, the backlog of unprocessed greenwaste continues to grow and we estimate having 6, 000 tons of backlogged unprocessed greenwaste at the end ofFY2004-05. Under the current contractual terms (for mulching only) of $35/ton, it will require an additional $210,000 to process this excess material. If the greenwaste being diverted continues to grow at its historic rate of 29%, we can anticipate that 22,000 tons will be dropped at the greenwaste receiving sites in FY 2004-05. • We anticipate the cost per ton ofgreenwaste will increase under an Organics Diversion because the additional costs of diverting other types of organic materials (referred to above as Optionals) as well as the extra production costs of producing a certified compost product are rolled into the cost per ton offnished certified compost. We anticipate that for every ton ofgreenwaste diverted under an Organics Diversion contract, we will have the benefit of an additional 400 pounds of optional organic materials will also be diverted from landfilling. We anticipate the cost per ton will rise to $45 per ton diverted from landfill. This is less expensive than landfilling and meets our diversion goals. At that price, processing 22, 000 tons of processed greenwaste will cost $990, 000. • Combining the costs of an Organics Diversion program that will increase total tonnage diverted from landfill to 26,400 tons, and the cost of eliminating the current backlog of unprocessed greenwaste under the existing contract, the total request for FY2004-05 was originally $210,000 + $990,000 = $1,200,000. We have reduced that request to $1,035,000 as we will continue the existing program for approximately 6 months into the next fiscal year before initiating the Organics Diversion program. 2. Volume of Refuse from Communication 511 does not reconcile to volumes in budget. The spreadsheet in Communication 511 was updated in February, 2004, after the budget was prepared. It refects the most accurate data we have. The volume of refuse estimated for Communication 511 to incorporate revised data from previous fiscal years and actuals for FY 2002-03, was based on the historic increases observed in the decade from 14