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Cochise County staff say recycling volatility and rising equipment costs make a tipping-fee increase likely
Summary
Public Works Director Jason Fosseo told the Cochise County Board of Supervisors the solid-waste fund faces growing operations and equipment-replacement costs and presented scenarios (including $68/ton) that would return the fund to multi-year surplus; staff will return with Rate Review Advisory Board recommendations and no vote was taken at the work session.
Public Works Director Jason Fosseo told the Cochise County Board of Supervisors at a Dec. 2 work session that the county will likely need to raise solid-waste tipping fees to cover rising operations and equipment-replacement costs.
Fosseo said the county currently charges $64 per ton at its facilities and that, after accounting for payroll, operations and a strained equipment-replacement line, the fund—s margin has narrowed. "We're not putting enough away for our heavy fleet equipment replacement," he said, adding the county previously budgeted about $325,000 annually for fleet replacements and now needs roughly $425,000 a year to buy comparable…
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