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Waste Management cites 5.2% CPI pass-through; Aztec officials discuss modest residential charge and service concerns
Summary
Waste Management's local representative, Jared Fulop, briefed the Aztec commission on a 5.2% CPI-based increase driven partly by a landfill disposal cost rise; staff estimated about $0.06 on basic residential trash and about $1.33 on recycling, and commissioners raised budget and illegal-dumping concerns.
Jared Fulop, the new local representative for Waste Management (S8), told the Aztec City Commission that a 2025 Consumer Price Index calculation produced a 5.2% increase that the company's contract allows to be passed through to customers.
Fulop said disposal costs at the San Juan County landfill rose from $45.34 to $47.51 and that the contract permits Waste Management to pass that increase through to the city. "2025, the CPI calculation resulted in a 5.2% increase," Fulop said while presenting the company's…
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