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o o o - a projection of 40,000 cubic yards for consistency purposes (Hurricane Wilma had about 20,000 yards to be picked up, and it took 30 days, but the resources were not large). There are several places in the proposal that talk about your response time. Prior to a stonn event, the contraCt will be activated as when you should start to mobilize your equipment and your forces and we expect a two- person management team to come by the emergency center 48-hours in advance and then after the weather has cleared, there is a 12-hour time frame that you have to start clearing the roadways, aI?d if you should be tasked with clearing the main arterial roadways, those three (3) roadways specifically need to be done within 24 hours after the all-clear has been given when the stonn has subsided. There are some penalties for not having your forces mobilized in a timely manner, and you have 24 hours to be 50% mobilized, and after 48 hours you need to be 100% mobilized. This is the basis for your proposal and the amount of crews and personnel that you assigned as being necessary to perfonn this work within 30 days. The goal is to make sure that whoever the contractor is for this project is going to show up in a timely manner, and get the work done very quickly because this community is very concerned about making sure that everything is cleaned up and it can never be too quick. If you do anything faster than these time limitations, that is even better. Disposal Location: In this proposal, the disposal location is listed as the North Dade Facility which is about 16 miles away, and the goal is to have that be your primary disposal facility but if there are any obstacles in disposing the debris directly to that facility then that is something that we will work with the winning contractor if the need should arise. There is no temporary site for debris, storage and reduction on this island, they are too close to the proximity of publicly traveled areas, and condominiums, and residential areas, so there is nothing available on the island for that activity. The only spot available on the island would be, should the need arise to store construction and demolition debris temporarily because there is no reduction involved, is a site just north of the William Lehman Causeway that will be available if there needs to be a residential drop off area or a temporary construction and demolition site, otherwise the clearing is done when you are actually picking up and removing the debris. In the past it has been chipped behind the truck with a chipper trailer and right into the bed and taken as mulch to the disposal facility. Basically, the optimal way ifit is not a large event stonn is to chip as you go and take that debris to disposal at the North Dade Facility. The City is in a negotiations with the County to look into utilizing one of their temporary storage sites, if they activate one after a disaster, to have an alternate for a place to take debris should something be wrong with the landfills, if you can't get into them, if the lines are three hours long, ifthere is a lot of debris and the quantities cannot be handled. As of now, the goal is to take it straight from the City either vegetative or mulch, preferably mulch, to a landfill directly. In the past Public Works has cleared the Park areas but you may be asked to assist with those should the need arise in the Parks and the facilities debris of surrounding buildings such as this but that is not directly in the scope of this RFP as the primary debris removal location. Conversion Factors: There are conversion factors from cubic yards to tons that are based on the new FEMA Guidelines. Last year in 2007 they revamped their conversion factors to what they think the different types of debris weigh, they classified debris as hard woods and soft woods and in the past the ratio has been 8 to I. That is no longer what FEMA is using, so that will be a standard that the monitoring company will be looking at if you base your debris on cubic yardage and you are paid on a cubic yardage basis, there will be a comparison done with the disposal weight from the disposal tickets to make sure that everything is in line with the load calls the monitoring company will perform out in the field for you, so those rates have changed. Si\SQ917757 Page 2 of 7