THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

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ITEM IIL

Re: Council Policy on Spoil Deposit

. From time to time the City receives requests from
residents to have spoil from City construction projects deposited
on their private property as fill. In some cases such requests
help the City in disposing of spoil which would otherwise have
to be hauled a longer distance toa dump. It is therefore
desirable to be able to dump spoil on private property under
those circumstances. On the other hand, it is possible to see
where such a p-rocedure might lead to abuses and possibly complaints
to Council from taxpayers.

The Committee feels, therefore, that a policy regarding
the deposit of spoil on private property be adopted by Council
so that there is no question of the correct procedure. The Comm-
ittee therefore recommends the following policy:

POLICY FOR SPOIL DEPOSIT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY

1. The City will accept requests for spoil deposit from residents
of the City through the City Engineer.

2. Where spoil is available from a project, it will be delivered
to private property only if the following conditions are met:

(a) the City itself has no use for the material

(b) it costs the City less to dispose on private
property than to haul the material away to a
dump

(c) the owner of the property agrees in writing to
accept the material as is without the right of
selection or rejection

(a) the owner agrees in writing to absolve the City
of all blame for any damage caused by City vehicles
entering onto private property in order to dump the
spoil.

Where several property owners have applied to receive spoil
from a given project,. the resident who is closest to the
project site will receive the first right of refusal, and
where several requests are approximately equidistant from

the site, the first right of refusal would go to the resident
who made the first application.

ITEM IV

Re: Request for STOP Signs

Requests have been received for the installation of
STOP signs at three newly constructed streets which intersect
major traffic routes.

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