County staff presents ordinance changes to assessment fees to fund solid waste; board moves to read resolution on consent

County staff presented proposed changes to assessment rules intended to simplify fee calculations and to fund the county solid waste fund. The changes would replace fractional multipliers with rounded unit counts (for example, a flat number of 12 for schools and a business multiplier of 3) and adjust the assessment schedule used by the assessor's office.

"We're currently generating 2,308 $2,238,006 58 through our $44 assessment," the staff representative said in the meeting record, and asserted that under the proposal the figure "is going to increase to $284,000.42," an increase staff estimated at about $45,384 a year. Staff presented the proposed figures as sufficient to fund the solid waste fund at a $44 assessment per unit and said the new ordinance would reduce assessor complexity.

Staff said the county published notice of the changes and posted the proposal online; staff named internal reviewers (Chris and Sandy) who ran the numbers and helped draft the rounded schedule. Board members asked whether any members of the public had called with concerns; staff said no calls had been received.

A motion was made on the record to close the public hearing and to read and advance the related resolution on consent (referred to in the transcript as "resolution 59‑0 9" or similar). The meeting transcript does not record a full roll‑call vote tally in clear form for that resolution in the portions provided.

Next steps: The record shows staff will proceed with the ordinance process; the resolution was read or placed on consent in the meeting record. The transcript does not include a complete vote record or text of the final ordinance in the excerpt provided.