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Augusta commission delays final trash-fee vote, asks staff for targeted revenue options
Summary
Faced with a multi‑million-dollar shortfall in the waste-collection fund, commissioners deferred setting a new user fee, asked staff for additional analyses (including a 10% surcharge on out‑of‑county/self‑haul customers) and scheduled follow-up for a special-call meeting ahead of the tax-billing deadline.
County administration told commissioners the waste-collection fund has accumulated a deficit because prior required CPI-based rate escalations were not implemented, leaving the program underfunded as contract and disposal costs rose. Administrator Allen said the county’s 2013 starting fee would have been about $434 in 2025 if prior annual escalators had been applied; the current billed rate is about $320.50. Allen described two example fee-paths: a lower-option that would not cover indirect/ancillary services (vacant-lot maintenance,…
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