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Section 2. Project Managers and Proposed Team As Project Director, Trevor Blythe is the City's main point of contact and lead. For SB 1383 Implementation Tasks, Lisa Robles, will be the Project Manager and lead. A brief overview of the project director and project manager's experience and background is included below. The project director, project manager and other key personnel assigned will be available to the extent proposed forthe duration of the required services. EcoNomics acknowledges that no project managers shall be removed or replaced without the prior written concurrence of the City of Santa Ana. Lead Staff Assignments Trevor Blythe MBA Title: Senior Vice President and Project Manager Time with EcoNomics, Inc.: 15 years Education: BS in Environmental Science, University California, Santa Barbara, 2006 MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School, 2014 Specialization: Project Management, CalRecycle Compliance Management and Troubleshooting Trevor Blythe has over 15 years of experience as a consultant in the sustainable materials management industry. Mr. Blythe works daily with local governments, private industry, and cities' waste haulers to overcome operational and financial barriers to implementing sustainable materials management programs at the municipal scale. He is an expert on solid waste regulations, operations, and collection system optimization. Mr. Blythe holds a Master of Business Administration in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco. During his coursework at Presidio, Trevor explored market - based solutions for returning key nutrients from organic waste back to the soil. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara with an emphasis on Geographic Information Systems. Mr. Blythe is based in the EcoNomics Orange County office and is currently assisting the cities of Anaheim, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, San Juan Capistrano, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Laguna Hills, Tustin, and Stanton with contract management, SB 1383 compliance planning, program cost, rate impact analyses and other tasks. Mr. Blythe also assists EcoNomics' client cities with contract management oversight, including developing fair and reasonable pricing to comply with new, state -mandated diversion programs, monitoring diversion reports to assess hauler compliance with state laws, and leading meetings with cities and haulers to monitor contractual compliance and resolve outstanding contractual obligations. Mr. Blythe has developed comprehensive organics cost models used in the City of Anaheim, Mission Viejo, Tustin, Santa Ana, Laguna Niguel, Newport Beach, Lake Forest, Rancho Mirage, and Napa. The model is used to project the cost of AB 1826 and SB 1383 compliance and to examine the impact of these costs on different components of a city's rate base. The model allows for real-time entry of generator participation assumptions, rate incentives, and service scenarios to predict the total cost of the program and the potential rate impact on residential and commercial accounts. The model can being used to illustrate the impacts of different funding scenarios for presentation to elected officials and senior City management. In many cases, the rate model was developed with the franchise haulers to construct a rate that adequately compensates the hauler while still providing a rate incentive for the generator, thus aligning the profit 15