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CITY OF LODE COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
AGENDA TITLE: Refuse Rate Adjustment
FETING DATE: March 17, 1993
PREPARED BY: Assistant City Manager
RECOMMENDED ACTION: The City Council consider the request of Sanitary
City Disposal Company, Inc. for a 19.51 increase in
residential and commercial rates.
BACKGROUND: Last year, October 1992, the City Council implemented
a refuse rate increase along with a change in
collaction method. The Council understood
that Sanitary City Disposal Company would be requesting a rate increase
effective April 1, 1993. We were told then that that increase could be as high
as 31t.
Sanitary City Disposal Company, in late February, presented staff with a rate
proposal to be effective April 1, 1993 of 19.5%.
Staff is evaluating that request and is in the process of preparing scenarios
to provide this increase. We did review the request with the Solid Waste
Management (SWAM) Task Force. It is their recommendation that the greater
burden of this increase be placed on single residence dwellings rather than
apartment houses and mobile homes.
The rationale is that apartment house dwellers were paying $7.25 per month and
their rate was increased to $12.83 per month, an increase of 770x. The single
family dwellers were the greatest user of the waste carts and their increase
was from $11.90 to $12.83, an increase of 7.8t. The SWAM Task Force feels that
an across-the-board increase is not equitable.
Staff is developing scenarios to incorporate this thinking, and will have some
options for the shirtsieeve session on Tuesday, March 16, 1993, and will
present final suggestions on March 17.
FUNDING: Unknown.
Respectfully submitted,
Tenn
APPROVED — is
THOMAS A. PETERSON recyciee paper
City Manager
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