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Commission discusses a new business assessment model for solid waste; working meeting set
Summary
Public Works Director TJ Gravely and commissioners discussed a proposed fee schedule to standardize business solid‑waste assessments, raising questions about measurement criteria, community hall and event venue classifications, and how to account for large generators such as hospitals without scales or a local landfill.
Broadwater County commissioners spent extended discussion time March 5 reviewing a proposed solid‑waste business assessment schedule that Public Works Director TJ Gravely presented as an effort to address inconsistent assessments across business types.
"This has been a problem for a long time where people aren't being assessed properly," Gravely said, describing variance in how businesses have been assigned assessments (for example, some hospitals receiving one assessment while other generators receive more). Gravely said the model he drafted draws on fee schedules used by Park County and Lewis and Clark County but must be…
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