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Solid Waste proposes rate and fee changes, including $35 bulky‑pickup fee; council approves notifications
Summary
Solid Waste Services presented a FY26 budget that would move the service to a full enterprise and proposed a $1.85 monthly increase and a $35 bulky‑pickup fee; council approved staff requests to program billing changes and notify large customers.
Solid Waste Services presented its FY26 budget and proposed fee schedule on Thursday, asking the City Council for permission to program billing changes and notify large customers; council approved the request.
Gregory Jenkins II, interim director of Solid Waste Services, said the department provides weekly garbage and biweekly recycling service to “over a 27,000 households” and averages about 60,000 collections per day. Jenkins highlighted accomplishments including a second recycling audit that collected roughly 89 tons of…
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