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The City will hire a consultant team to serve as Business Recycling and Waste Prevention <br />Specialists who will provide the following to local businesses. <br />a. On -Call Assistance In the past, the City has received several telephone requests for <br />assistance each month. The City expects more requests in the future since the City has <br />placed an advertisement in the Yellow Pages. <br />b. Citv Initiated Assistance The City plans to target assistance to sectors which include (but <br />are not necessarily limited to) property managers of the largest waste generators to offer <br />City initiated assistance in recycling, waste prevention and the procurement of recycled <br />content products. The City may also focus on assistance for specific "problem" materials, <br />such as plastics. <br />c. Technical Assistance Workshops The City will hold technical assistance workshops or <br />other special events, as circumstances indicate, to recognize businesses with outstanding <br />business recycling/waste prevention programs; and/or the City may provide information to <br />targeted industries about selected materials or the overall benefits of recycling, waste <br />prevention and the procurement of recycled- content products. <br />Proiect Goals: <br />increase the visibility of the Tukwila Business Recycles program in the community; <br />increase awareness among businesses of the technical assistance offered by the City; and <br />expand the number of businesses which receive technical assistance as a result of increased <br />promotion of the City's technical assistance program. The City hopes to provide on -call <br />assistance to a minimum of 10 businesses and City initiated assistance to a minimum of 30 <br />businesses.' <br />Deliverable: <br />Technical assistance to a minimum of 40 businesses 1 <br />Proiect Evaluation: <br />In coordination with the City's evaluation of its business program under the King County City <br />Optional Program, the City will evaluate this project by undertaking the following: <br />tracking the number of firms assisted by the Tukwila Business Recycles program; <br />tracking the number of Green Works members (new, "Distinguished or "Partners <br />assisted; <br />tracking the number (and source) of calls for assistance; and <br />surveying garbage and recycling haulers to gain information about changes in diversion <br />rates for the business sector over a 9 month period. <br />The City is funding its Business Program through both the King County WR/R grant program and the King <br />County City Optional Program (COP) for 1997 and 1998. The number of businesses that the City hopes to assist, <br />as per this Revised Scope of Work, is the same as the number of businesses that the City hopes to assist through the <br />COP and is limited by the funding available through that program for 1997 and 1998. <br />5 <br />