REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Public Hearing: Adoption of a Resolution Setting Overall Solid Waste Services, Annual Clean-up Campaign, and Household Hazardous Waste in the Exclusive Franchise Area
Report
BACKGROUND
The Proposed FY 2018/19 Solid Waste Fund budget is $24,803,000. Programs funded by the Solid Waste budget include garbage, Clean Green, residential recycling, household hazardous waste collection and disposal/processing, the Clean-up Campaign, street sweeping, and landfill post-closure maintenance. Garbage, Clean Green, Residential Recycling, Clean-up Campaign, and Household Hazardous Waste rates charged to customers fund these programs.
Agreements are in place with Mission Trail Waste Systems (MTWS) for the collection of garbage, commercial recycling, and Clean Green in the exclusive franchise area, which consists of all properties except for those with an "Industrial" use zoning designation. Agreements are also in place with Recology to provide residential single-stream recycling and International Disposal Corporation/Browning Ferris Industries (IDC/BFI) to provide solid waste disposal at Newby Island Landfill and composting services at The Recyclery. Each agreement contains provisions for annual increases to the tariffs or rates paid to the service providers based on an adjustment formula that is primarily tied to the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Costs associated with salaries, benefits, materials, services, supplies, and overhead will increase in FY 2018/19. Solid Waste rates need to be periodically adjusted for cost changes to maintain full cost recovery. The proposed solid waste rate increases as specified in Table A of the Resolution (Attachment 1) are necessary to enable the Solid Waste Fund to achieve full cost recovery.
At the June 12, 2018 Council meeting, Council will open the Public Hearing and hear protests regarding the proposed rates. In addition, the Council meeting will be the last opportun...
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