REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Public Hearing: Adoption of a Resolution Setting Rates for Overall Solid Waste Services, Annual Clean-up Campaign, and Household Hazardous Waste in the Exclusive Franchise Area
Report
BACKGROUND
In November 1996, California voters approved Proposition 218, which amended the state Constitution to establish a new category of fees and charges referred to as "property-related fees and charges" and created new procedural requirements for their adoption. Under these requirements, water, sewer, and solid waste service fees or charges are subject to a written notice of proposed increases, public hearing on proposed fees or charges not less than 45 days after the mailing of the notice, and majority protest procedure for their approval. At the public hearing, all protests against the proposed fees or charges are tabulated and if the number of protests are presented by a majority of owners (50 percent plus 1) the fees or charges cannot be imposed. If there is not a majority of owners protesting the proposed fees or charges, Council can make and act on a motion to approve increases.
The Proposed FY 2019/20 Solid Waste Fund budget is $28,034,000. Programs funded by the Solid Waste budget include garbage, Clean Green, residential recycling, household hazardous waste collection, disposal and 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.
The following existing agreements with three (3) companies contain provisions for annual rate increases based on an adjustment formula that is primarily tied to the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Consumer Price Index (CPI):
* 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 a...
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