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Chittenden Solid Waste District debates $10 per‑ton increase to solid waste management fee to cover MRF shortfall
Summary
District staff recommended raising the solid waste management fee from $30 to $40 per ton and indexing future annual adjustments to the BLS garbage-and-trash CPI to support the capital reserve and address a shortfall on the new MRF project; the board held discussion but took no action.
The Chittenden Solid Waste District Board of Commissioners discussed a staff recommendation on March 26, 2025 to raise the district’s solid waste management fee from $30 per ton to $40 per ton and to adopt a formula to adjust the fee annually using a rolling 12‑month average of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics garbage-and-trash consumer price index.
Sarah, the district’s executive director, presented data showing the fee historically has lagged the industry-specific inflation measure and said indexing to the garbage-and-trash CPI would reduce the need for infrequent large increases. "My recommendation is to raise it to 40," Sarah said, adding that the industry index would have placed the fee near that level had the district followed it over the last two decades.
Staff told the board the proposed…
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