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Supervisors approve overhaul of city refuse rate process for June ballot; competing measure tabled
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place an ordinance before voters to replace the 1932 refuse rate-setting process with a new structure centered on a controller-appointed rate administrator and a reconstituted refuse rate board. A competing measure was tabled after debate about corruption and past overcharges tied to Recology.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on March 1 to send to the June 7 ballot a measure that would restructure how refuse collection rates are set in the city, replacing the 1932 rate-setting process with a new system that centers the controller as refuse rate administrator and establishes a reconstituted refuse rate board.
The measure (item 24) would require the controller to regularly monitor refuse rates, to recommend adjustments to a newly constituted refuse rate board, and would expand the board’s authority while authorizing new competitive selection and performance requirements for refuse collection permits. The proposal also codifies the refuse provisions into the health code and would allow the board, the mayor and the refuse board to adopt future ordinance changes by an eight-vote…
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