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York City committee moves 34% residential refuse fee increase, effective July 1
Summary
The Public Works Committee voted to place a resolution on the June 3 legislative agenda that would raise residential and commercial refuse collection rates and an administrative fee to address a higher contract and 2025 budget shortfalls; the increases would take effect July 1, 2025.
A York City Public Works Committee meeting on May 28, 2025 moved a resolution to the City Council’s June 3 legislative agenda that would raise refuse collection fees effective July 1, 2025.
Environmental services staff told the committee the increases respond to higher collection contract costs and updated 2025 expense estimates. “So totaling that all up, there is a little bit of additional revenue that's budgeted out of this department specifically for some hazardous waste, permits, and, for, the revenue that comes in for the resale of, the the recycling cans and such. So subtracting that out, I was able to determine that we needed just under 6,500,000.0 for the entire year,” the staff…
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