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Council approves Chittenden Solid Waste District FY26 budget as CSWD seeks $10-per-ton fee increase
Summary
Essex Junction City Council voted to approve the Chittenden Solid Waste District(CSWD) fiscal year 2026 budget after a presentation from CSWD staff that included a proposal to raise the districtsolid waste management fee from $30 to $40 per ton to close a roughly $4 million funding gap for a materials recycling facility project.
The Essex Junction City Council on May 28 approved the Chittenden Solid Waste District(CSWD) fiscal year 2026 budget after a presentation from CSWD staff who said the district will seek to raise its solid waste management fee from $30 to $40 per ton.
CSWD Executive Director Sarah Reeves told the council the fee "is the fee that is charged directly to haulers for the trash that they bring to the landfill" and that the fee "has been in place since 1993." Reeves said the proposed rate increase would raise the district's anticipated revenue from about $16.2 million to roughly $17.5 million and that "every dollar over that 16.2 that was initially budgeted ... will then go directly to the MERF capital projects fund." She said the additional revenue is intended to close a funding gap of about $4,000,000 for the materials recycling facility capital…
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