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7A Page 17 ATTACHMENT 1 In response to letters and articles questioning the RFP process, the SBWMA Executive Director solicited letters. attesting to the transparency and integrity of the RFP process from proposers actively competing for an SBWMA contract. The email request, dated August 23,2008, is quote below: ' "Subject: Special request Hello. 1m sure you all saw the articles friday in three different papers re: Allied'g desperate plea for consideration of their alte~tive proposal. Allied's intentions are quite clear: they want the results ofhoth procurements thrown out and for cities to negotiate a package deal to keep them as the hauler and shoreway opearator. Given the above, i have.a special and awkward request to make: can....write a letter stating that, while yo.u are certainly disappointed wth the results and you not being selected, you feel ,the rfp processes were conducted professionally, thoroughly, and with. the highest level of transparency and integrity. C~ you write this letter? If so, can you . email a signed copy to nle by monday morning? My intent would be to attach this to my response. 1m making a similar request of [other proposers 1 If one of you can call me on my cell this weekend to confirm if you can meet this special request. My cell no is........ Thanks for the consideration I" . With this email, the copy of a newspaper article about Allied (see Attachment 2) was also sent to the proposers. The newspaper article contained controversial infonnation about Allied, as admitted to by staff in a SBWMA meeting on August 28, 2008. Allied's lawyer attempted to elicit an apology from the executive at a SBWMA Board meeting, but the apology was denied on the grounds that it was not legally necessary. (see Attachment 3). One proposer refused to comply with the Executive Director's request to validate the fairness of the RFP process. Instead, he sent a copy of the Executive Director's email to a'member of the sari Mateo County Board of Supervisors, who in turn publicized it to the press and to the elected officials of the member agencies. The Executive Director learned of this, and on August 28, in the San Mateo Library, during a SBWMA Board meeting br~ confronted said proposer with vulgar 1 anguage. As a result of the events, the following actions were taken by the SBWMA Board of Directors to curtail the Executive Director's power as quoted in a letter from the Chairman of the SBWMA Board to a San Mateo County Supervisor dated September 4,2008. An excerpt of the letter follows: 1. "The Executive Director will no longer participate as a member of the Facility Operations Contractor Selection Committee; . 2. The ~xecutive Committee (Chair or Vice Chair of SBwMA Board) will review and approve direct correspondence with proposers or the member agencies regarding the selection process; 13