MUKILT – The Mukilteo Metropolis Council approved knowledgeable service settlement with Tara Dunford for accounting technical help and mentioned the findings of Waste Administration’s 2021 annual report at its common assembly Monday July 18.
Metropolis authorizes settlement with Tara Dunford for monetary help
Council Vice President Elisabeth Crawford moved to authorize Mayor Joe Marine to signal knowledgeable companies settlement with Tara Dunford for accounting technical help to not exceed $66,000. The movement was seconded by Councilor Riaz Khan. The movement was authorised unanimously.
Dunford’s tasks below the settlement would be the preparation of price range paperwork, the preparation of monetary reviews, the overview of accounting transactions and different technical accounting and monetary duties as assigned.
Workers proposed that the Metropolis enter into an accounting technical help contract with a marketing consultant to assist it put together for the 2023 price range course of. Council approval was required because the greenback quantity of the contract exceeded the employees’s administrative authority (restricted to $30,000 or much less).
In line with her resume, Dunford is a Licensed Public Accountant, with expertise in native authorities accounting and budgeting. She routinely works with native authorities purchasers to offer a wide range of technical accounting help, together with help with price range preparation.
Dunford has been aiding the Metropolis of Mukilteo Division of Finance since April 2022 by making ready the state-mandated monetary statements that have to be submitted yearly to the state auditors. The mix of her previous expertise, plus her very latest data of the Metropolis’s funds, makes her a wonderful alternative to assist the Metropolis put together for the 2023 price range course of as employees continues to seek for a everlasting Finance Director, he mentioned. town.
Dunford’s unique settlement with the Metropolis has 63 hours remaining to be allotted to accounting assist desk work. The brand new settlement will add 400 hours of companies via the top of December 2022, at a price of $165.00 per hour. The entire settlement quantity can’t exceed $66,000 and Dunford is simply required to invoice the Metropolis for the variety of hours used. This might imply that your whole hours and your price might be beneath the contracted settlement. If the total quantity is used, the employees should return to the Metropolis Council for a price range adjustment to the Division of Finance price range.
Moreover, the settlement with Dunford might be terminated as soon as a everlasting CFO has been appointed or no less than shortly thereafter.
Waste administration Annual report 2021
Han Kirkland, contract supervisor for Waste administration (WM), additionally approached the council with a presentation of WM’s 2021 annual report.
Kirkland has overseen the Mukilteo contract since 2020 and served the Metropolis of Tukwila for 21 years prior. As contract administrator, Kirkland’s position is to work with metropolis employees, customer support and operations to make sure that WM offers the absolute best service to Mukilteo residences and companies.
WM has supplied composting and trash recycling companies for residential, multi-family, and industrial properties within the Metropolis of Mukilteo for over 25 years and took over town in 2019. As a part of that contract, they’re required to file an annual report. .
The principle findings of that report had been that the diversion price, the proportion of the overall collected materials that didn’t go to landfill, was barely decrease in comparison with earlier years within the residential sector, primarily attributable to staff returning to work in particular person. or hybrid work. The general diversion price elevated from 21.4% in 2020 to 26.7% in 2021, whereas the industrial diversion price remained steady at 12%
“Total, the group is doing an awesome job constantly diverting materials from the landfill, however there’s all the time extra work to be finished,” Kirkland mentioned.
Whereas 2021 was the second 12 months of the pandemic, WM confronted many challenges, resembling labor shortages and provide chain points, however in keeping with Kirkland, they nonetheless labored onerous to remain dedicated to placing individuals first. no layoffs, full 40 hour work weeks. , and advantages and wage parity. Final 12 months, the corporate additionally expanded its persevering with schooling advantages for its staff and their dependents to draw and retain staff.
Later this 12 months, WM will roll out its good truck expertise all through town, permitting them to concentrate on security options with steady recording and video for fast suggestions. Driving digital camera security options will enable AI to help with lane departure, distractions, following distance, and might be repeatedly despatched to managers to offer suggestions to mentor drivers. Good truck expertise may also enable WM to offer a extra dependable service to verify half sizes and take a look at contamination in actual time, for instance.
Starting this fall, WM will bear main renovations to its Cascade Recycling Middle (CRC), increasing the middle and implementing state-of-the-art expertise that can embody superior sorting applied sciences with 17 optical sorters, which may type 600 gadgets per minute. . The reconstruction may also enhance manufacturing capability by 50%, Kirkland predicts.
consent agenda
The Council additionally authorised the next gadgets throughout its unanimous consent agenda.