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Council discusses recycling diversion credits and data needed to allocate city credits
Summary
City staff and councilmembers reviewed a waste diversion program that will credit cities based on diversion amounts; staff said diversion figures and conversion codes are pending and will be available in coming months.
Fruit Heights City Council members discussed details of a recycling diversion-credit program that will allocate money to participating cities based on measured diversion amounts. Staff said the program will use a diversion code and that conversions and credits will be applied once the program starts; specific diversion figures were not yet available.
Staff told councilmembers they expect to receive the conversion figures from the program administrator within a few months and that credits for prior months would be reconciled and credited back to cities if eligible. Councilmembers were advised that the reported diversion numbers already provided at several meetings are intended to feed into the larger budget for the program and that council budget discussions should take the expected credits into account.
A council member noted they did not want to include speculative numbers in the city budget and that staff would wait to include finalized figures. The transcript shows staff saying bids or data will be resent to council as part of the ongoing process; no formal vote or directive to approve expenditures is recorded in the excerpt.
The record indicates the council will revisit the issue once the program operator provides conversion and credit data.
