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Committee accepts amended cigarette-litter fee; ordinance would charge 20¢ per pack to fund cleanup and education
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee reviewed an ordinance to impose a cigarette litter abatement fee and accepted technical amendments that set the fee at 20¢ per pack (down from an earlier estimate), with projected first-year revenue of about $4.5 million starting October 1; enforcement responsibilities were shifted to the Tax Collector.
The committee took up Item 6, an ordinance to create a cigarette-litter abatement fee to recover the city’s costs of cleaning cigarette butts and to fund anti-litter education. Catherine Dodd of the Mayor’s Office summarized the findings of a nexus study: cigarette butts and related packaging comprise an estimated portion of litter and cigarette filters contain toxic organic compounds that can harm marine life when butts enter…
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