Agmt22 MOU Sant Mateo County Disposable Foodware

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REV: 09-13-2022 MI EXHIBIT A - SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES The below education and enforcement activities relating to the City of Redwood City (the City) Disposable Food Service Ware Ordinance, an ordinance that contains substantially similar provisions as the County of San Mateo (the County) Disposable Food Service Ware Ordinance (Ordinance), will be conducted by the County and the City within the City’s jurisdiction. I. Education and Outreach 1. The County will conduct education and outreach to food facilities that operate in the City’s jurisdiction that may be impacted by the City’s ordinance. Per the City’s ordinance, the County will focus efforts only on entities that are defined as a “food facility” under the California Retail Food Code.1 These entities are required to have a health permit with the County’s Environmental Health Services (EHS) to serve food and beverages to the public. The County’s Office of Sustainability (OOS) will collaborate with EHS to identify food facilities in the City jurisdiction that will be impacted. 2. The County will conduct education and outreach to the general public in the City’s jurisdiction. 3. The County will develop a standardized and uniform education and outreach strategy that will be rolled out in the City’s jurisdiction as well as in unincorporated areas of the county and other cities in the county that adopt the Ordinance or an ordinance with substantially similar provisions as the Ordinance. The County may utilize a combination of standardized strategies for education and outreach activities, which may include, but is not limited to development and distribution of educational materials (e.g., flyers, posters, resource guide that will have information on compliant disposable food ware products, signs, banners, etc.), mailers, phone calls, emails, social media posts, videos, newspaper ads, door-to-door visits, pilot and implementation of behavior change campaigns, etc. 4. As needed, the City will supplement the County’s efforts for the City’s ordinance with any additional education and outreach activities that are tailored to the City’s needs and managed by City staff (e.g., City’s social media accounts, City website, City newsletter, internal City sustainability activities, etc.). II. Enforcement 1. The County will conduct enforcement of the City’s ordinance within the City’s jurisdiction utilizing a complaint-based system. The County will respond to complaints or referrals from the public and/or from City staff and work with food facility operators to investigate and resolve reported issue(s). 1 Although public schools are defined as a food facility under the California Retail Food Code, they are exempt from complying with the ordinance based on the fact that the State has the sole authority to dictate their operations. ATTY/AGR.2022.334/County of San Mateo (Page 6 of 7)