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Consider recommendations regarding the termination of Landfill Gas Lease and Operating Agreement (Agreement) with NEO Tajiguas, LLC (NEOT) for the Tajiguas Landfill, County Project No. 129903, Third District, as follows:
a) Approve and ratify the Department of Public Works, Resource Recovery and Waste Management Division’s termination of the Agreement with NEOT, with an effective termination date of October 21, 2020, in exchange for a $1,850,000.00 payment to NEOT for the contract buyout and equipment left in place in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Agreement approved by the Board on March 17, 2020;
b) Approve and authorize the Public Works Director, or designee, to execute: (1) the Quitclaim Deed; and (2) the Memorandum of Termination of the Agreement and Termination of Amended and Restated Sublease upon execution by NEOT; and
c) Find that the proposed actions do not constitute a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to 15378(b)(4), (b)(5), fiscal activities or organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.