California Integrated Waste Management Board

Council of California GGOODWILL IINDUSTRIES

GREATER EAST BAY June 15, 2006 Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano Counties Margo Reid Brown, Chairperson California Integrated Waste Management Board LONG BEACH & SOUTH BAY 1001 I St Southern Los Angeles County PO Box 4025 Sacramento, CA 95812-4025 P ORANGE COUNTY RE: Opposition to the 90-Day Mandatory Payment Period from Recyclers to Collectors U REDWOOD EMPIRE Sonoma, Napa Mendocino, Lake, Humboldt & Trinity Counties Dear Ms. Brown: B

We are writing on behalf of the Council of California Goodwill Industries to express SAN DIEGO COUNTY San Diego & Imperial Counties our concern and opposition to the mandatory payment period provision outlined in L the proposed changes to the emergency regulations of the Electronic Waste Recycling Act. SAN FRANCISCO SAN MATEO, & MARIN COUNTIES As you may know, the Council of California Goodwill Industries is a collective body of I 13 autonomous Goodwill organizations operating throughout California and Oregon. SAN JOAQUIN Goodwill organizations provide education, training and employment services to VALLEY thousands of disadvantaged and disabled residents in our respective communities C Amador, San Joaquin, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, each year. Each local Goodwill organization utilizes used goods retail operations and Mariposa, Madera, Fresno & other business ventures, including the proceeds from the collection of e-waste, to North Tulare Counties help fund valuable community services that reach 42,000 disadvantaged and disabled Californians per year.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY Santa Clara & The existing emergency regulations stipulate a 60-day mandatory payment period San Benito Counties for a recycler to reimburse a collector. While we understand that extending this P period to 90 days may help alleviate the State’s challenge to process claims in a timely fashion, it is our position that doing so institutionalizes that non-profits must SANTA CRUZ, MONTEREY subsidize the State’s law and creates a significant financial hardship on non-profits, & SAN LUIS OBISPO O COUNTIES such as Goodwill Industries, that collect large volumes of e-waste. We request that this provision remain unchanged as outlined in the standing L SOUTH CENTRAL emergency regulations (a 60-day mandatory payment period). Considering our CALIFORNIA request, please bear in mind that 30-day payment terms are standard in the Kern, Kings & South Tulare Counties business sector before the application of interest and the assessment of penalties. I Please forward this correspondence to the other members of the Board and feel free SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA to contact Mr. Otto DeLeon at (916) 419-9479 if we can provide you with any Northern Los Angeles, San additional information. Bernardino & Riverside Counties C Sincerely, SOUTHERN OREGON Y Siskiyou & Del Norte Counties

VENTURA John Latchford Janet McCarthy & SANTA BARBARA Public Policy Committee Co-Chairperson Public Policy Committee Co- COUNTIES Chairperson President/CEO President/CEO

1.888.4.goodwill ● [email protected] ● www.californiagoodwills.org Goodwill Industries of the Greater Goodwill Industries of Long Beach & East Bay South Bay Oakland, CA Long Beach, CA cc: Dave Nagy, Chairman, Council of California Goodwill Industries Jennifer Hendrick Snyder, Lobbyist, Capitol Advocacy

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