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City of Santa Ana Proposal to Provide Solid Waste Consulting Services
<br />RFP NO.: 18-006
<br />Laith Ezzet, CIVIC°, Senior Vice President Project Director
<br />Mr. Ezzet is a Certified Management Consultant and Senior Vice
<br />President of our Southern California solid waste consulting practice. Mr.
<br />Ezzet has 30 years of experience as an economist and solid waste
<br />consultant and has assisted over 100 public agencies to plan, implement,
<br />and monitor their recycling, organics, and solid waste collection,
<br />processing, and disposal programs. During the course of these
<br />engagements, he has presented to or participated in more than 200 public
<br />workshops and public meetings for City Councils, Boards of Supervisors,
<br />and citizens' advisory groups. Mr. Ezzet is a past member of the Board of
<br />Directors of the California Resource Recovery Association, and, for over
<br />20 years, has served as a Director of the Southern California Founding
<br />Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America.
<br />Procurement Experience
<br />Mr. Ezzet has managed numerous procurement engagements for recycling, organics, and solid
<br />waste services contracts, including RFP preparation, proposal evaluation, and negotiation
<br />support. Examples of clients for whom he has helped to obtain new recycling, organics, and
<br />solid waste services contracts include the cities of Anaheim, Beverly Hills, Bellflower, Cerritos,
<br />Dana Point, Diamond Bar, Hermosa Beach, Huntington Park, Imperial Beach, Indian Wells,
<br />Inglewood, Lake Forest, Lawndale, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, Mission Viejo, Newport
<br />Beach, Norwalk, Orange, Palm Desert, Palmdale, Pico Rivera, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rancho
<br />Cucamonga, Rancho Santa Margarita, Redondo Beach, Riverside, Santa Clarita, Tustin, West
<br />Hollywood, and other. He has negotiated recycling, organics, and solid waste agreements
<br />with a total value in excess of $2 billion. The competitive collection procurements managed
<br />by Mr. Ezzet have a total value in excess of $1 billion, and he has saved public agencies
<br />more than $200 million, with some agencies saving up to 40%.
<br />The majority of the procurement and franchise agreements engagements directed by Laith
<br />include organics collection and processing services and rate setting for organics. In addition,
<br />Laith has designed RFP and contract provisions that require or incentivize organics recycling
<br />including diversion performance standards and technical assistance programs for businesses
<br />and multi -family accounts. In the case of jurisdictions, such as Whittier and Diamond Bar, that
<br />currently do not offer food scraps collection for single-family customers, Laith negotiated
<br />provisions in the franchise agreements to include food scraps collection when required by
<br />regulations and pre -negotiated the cost/rate impact for these services.
<br />Solid Waste Rate Studies and Audits
<br />Mr. Ezzet has provided expert solid waste advice to over 70 cities and counties in the
<br />areas of rate analysis, cost of service studies, program planning and funding, and
<br />negotiation of solid waste rates. Examples of clients whom he has assisted with fee audits,
<br />performance audits, contract compliance audits, and solid waste rate analysis of both existing
<br />and proposed services, include the cities of Anaheim, Arcadia, Bellflower, Beverly Hills,
<br />Burbank, Chandler, Covina, Dana Point, Downey, El Monte, Fullerton, Glendale, Hermosa
<br />Beach, Hesperia, Indian Wells, Indio, Inglewood, La Palma, Laguna Beach, Laguna Niguel,
<br />Long Beach, Monterey Park, Orange, Palm Springs, Pasadena, Pomona, Redondo Beach, San
<br />Bernardino, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clarita, Santa Monica, Torrance, and
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