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C. The City, like each of the other cities and counties which are members ofSPSA, has contracted with SPSA for long-term waste disposal services, for the payment of disposal fees in an amount sufficient to provide for the financing and operation of the regional system, and to provide for the delivery to SPSA of all or substantially all of the solid waste generated or collected by or within the City, and the form of that contract has been reviewed and declared by order of a Virginia Circuit Court to be valid, binding, and enforceable in accordance with its terms; D. In reliance upon its contracts with the City and other members and upon the delivery of the solid waste generated within the member jurisdictions, SPSA has issued bonds in a substantial amount to finance and construct facilities and has entered into contracts with third parties to assure the safe and environmentally sound management and disposal of the solid waste, all for the benefit of the City and other SPSA members; E. SPSA has been designated and is acting on behalf of the City and its other member jurisdictions to implement and operate programs in order to meet levels of solid waste recycling required by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the common management and control of the region's waste is critical to the success of those programs and to the ability of the City to meet the requirements of Virginia law; F. The assurance of the continued supply of all or substantially all of the solid waste generated within the City and the other SPSA member localities is necessary to generate revenue for the successful fulfillment of SPSA's public mission and is necessary to and in the best interest of the City and its citizens, notwithstanding any anti competitive effects; G. The City reaffirms its commitment to support and participate in SPSA's operation of an integrated regional solid waste disposal system to provide for the benefit of the City and its citizens a safe, environmentally sound, reliable and economical program capable of meeting long-term disposal needs, complying with state recycling requirements and carrying out the public's desire for recycling services; H. It is both necessary and appropriate that the City comply with the conditions and commitments of its existing contract with SPSA to deliver or cause to be delivered to SPSA all or substantially all of the solid waste generated or collected by or within the City; I. Other waste disposal facilities, including privately owned facilities and regional facilities are (i) unavailable; (ii) inadequate; (iii) unreliable; or (iv) not economically feasible, to meet the current and anticipated needs of the [City/County] for waste disposal capacity; J. This ordinance is necessary to ensure the availability of adequate financing for the construction, expansion or closing of the City's facilities, including facilities owned and/or operated by SPSA, of which the City is a member, and the costs incidental or related thereto, and to provide to the City and other members of SPSA a convenient and effective way to finance SPSA ' s integrated package of waste disposal services;