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Committee postpones decision on who pays to replace residential trash carts
Summary
The committee postponed a decision on whether to charge up-front fees for replacement residential trash carts or add a small monthly surcharge, asking staff to return with cost data at the next meeting and awaiting landfill contract results.
During the same Public Works meeting (date not specified), the committee discussed how to handle replacement of aging residential trash carts and whether the county or property owners should pay for new units. Staff reported the county's earliest carts (distributed in 2012–2013) are beginning to fail and raised two financing options: a one-time purchase fee (Cliff said a new can costs “somewhere between 65 and $75” and the county charges $100…
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