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Lynnwood staff recommends pausing multi‑year effort to municipalize solid-waste hauling
Summary
After community outreach found broad satisfaction with current curbside service, city staff recommended pausing a multi-year project to move solid-waste hauling from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission tariff to a city-managed contract.
Interim Public Works Director Marcy McQuarrie updated the Lynnwood City Council on Feb. 3 on the city's multi‑year review of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) solid-waste hauler tariff and recommended pausing further work on municipalizing curbside hauling.
McQuarrie said Lynnwood has been governed by the WUTC tariff since annexation and that the tariff currently divides the city down State Route 99: Republic Services serves the west side and Waste Management serves the east. She described a 7-to-10-year process the city would need to undertake to replace that tariff with a single municipal contract and summarized outreach and analysis completed to date.
The city ran a May–July 2023 survey that received 529 responses. McQuarrie said the survey showed the…
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