The council discussed a consulting agreement to explore a regional governance structure for a solid waste system, which will involve drafting an MOU and interlocal agreements with partner cities. Legal counsel noted that these joint agreements will likely include mutual indemnification clauses to proportionally share liability among the participating municipalities. Additionally, the county plans to facilitate an interlocal agreement with the Public Facilities District and the Department of Commerce to conduct a feasibility review related to fairgrounds bond financing.
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Clark County Council · Aug 18, 2026 · 36:06–36:22 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: MOU interlocal agreement
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35:03 what resulted in that study that we did was that we really needed to move forward in evaluating the governance structure for what a regional ownership would look like and then factor into cost would follow that. This work is going to -- this work was modeled after the discovery clean water alliance formation and so when we did the RFP for this consultant contract we borrowed the RFP from that discovery clean water alliance work and so we really modeled this off of the success of that alliance formation and we're going to look forward to moving into the discussions with the cities on how they envision the system. So I'm happy to answer any questions that you have. Any questions or comments? What would be the timeline? So this contract is for three years. Right now we really have to discuss with the cities what availability they have.
36:02 We've discussed maybe a compressed timeline where we just meet more frequently and get something -- an MOU and an interlocal agreement started right away or we might have to extend it out a year. It just depends on what everyone's 2027 looks like. So we did the contract initially with the consultant for three years but we're open to any number of options in terms of the timeline. We need to commit to some decision by December 31, 2029 that was committed to via interlocal agreements with all of the cities that we did during the solid waste management plan that we did last year. Okay. Questions? Sure. Just a really quick question. So other jurisdictions have had similar presentations of another council to discuss the potential future partnership of acquiring waste management, is that correct?
37:01 The transfer stations are owned currently by Waste Connections of Washington. Waste Connections. Thank you. But they are. They've been in conversations. Yep. Okay. Thank you. We were just at battleground last night, in fact. Okay. Thank you. How are those conversations been going? Do you have any interest? I think there's a varying level of interest. I think everyone's excited about evaluating the options.
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cross_cutting keyword 36:06–36:22 MOU, interlocal agreement
be the timeline? So this contract is for three years. Right now we really have to discuss with the cities what availability they have. We've discussed maybe a compressed timeline where we just meet more frequently and get something -- an MOU and an interlocal agreement started right away or we might have to extend it out a year. It just depends on what everyone's 2027 looks like. So we did the contract initially with the consultant for three years but we're open to any number of options in term