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Apopka sanitation and fleet budgets rise as tipping fees and vehicle costs climb
Summary
Public Services Director Josh Robinson told council that sanitation will face a 23% increase in FY26 costs largely from higher Orange County tipping fees and added collection needs. Fleet requested limited capital this year but additional maintenance positions; sanitation is planning a 15% rate increase to rebuild reserves.
Josh Robinson, public services director, presented the sanitation and fleet portions of the FY26 budget, describing collection volumes, vehicle inventories and reserve needs.
Robinson said the sanitation division collects slightly more than 40,000 tons of solid waste annually — about 21,000 tons of residential waste and 11,000 tons of commercial waste — and operates 27 trucks with 16 daily collection routes. For the combined sanitation and fleet budget, personnel accounts for about 37% and operating…
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