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City gets solid-waste rate study: staff proposes CPI-linked increases, brief pilot for bulky-item spikes
Summary
Consultants presented a cost-of-service study recommending indexing rates to a garbage-and-trash CPI and a modest catch-up increase for single-family, multifamily and roll-off customers to recover rising labor and equipment costs; council asked staff to refine options for bulk/multifamily collections during peak student move windows.
Consultants presented a comprehensive solid-waste cost-of-service study to Council on Thursday and proposed moving College Station's collection rates from a general CPI index to an industry-specific "garbage and trash" price index and adopting a modest catch-up increase for some customer classes in fiscal 2026.
"About 75 percent of the city's costs are people and trucks," the consultant said, explaining why industry-specific inflation has outpaced the CPI used for prior annual adjustments. Staff recommended indexing future rates to the…
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