16-0929_ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE INSPECTION SERVICES_Memo from PW DeptMEMORANDUM September 29,2016
TO Ben Siegel, City Manager
FROM:Steve May, PublicWorks and Utilities
Preparcd by: Joe Mankawich, Associate
SUBJECT: Fats, Oils, and Grease
Agreementfor FOG and
and extension to Professional Services
Inspection of Food Service Establishments.
The City Council, at its April T, 2009, meeting, adopted the City's first FOG (Fats, Oils
and Grease) Ordinance (Ordinance No. 956), in order to meet the mandates of the
Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. The Ordinance protects the City's waters by
enforcing Food Service Establishment (FSE) Best Management Practices (BMP's) that
reduce grease from entering the City's sanitary sewer systems, thereby reducing the
likelihood of sewer overflows into the stream.
Our FOG program was improved last year by the hiring of a consultant Environmental
Compliance Inspection Services (ECIS) to perform the FOG inspections. They also
perform NPDES inspections of the City's Food Service Establishments (FSE's). Prior to
this, the City's Building lnspector's and Code Enforcement Officers were performing this
work.
The Personal Services Agreement with ECIS was written with an option to extend the
contract for two additional years. Staff is recommending that we approve a one year
extension.