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Council agrees to realign diversion requirement with hauler capability and pass modest savings to ratepayers
Summary
Following consultant analysis that Waste Management can reasonably achieve about 37% diversion under current state rules, the council authorized staff to amend the franchise agreement to reflect the revised diversion baseline and to seek a phased rate reduction (roughly 1% per year for two years) to return estimated hauler savings to customers.
Council authorized staff to pursue an amendment to the city's franchise agreement with Waste Management that realigns the contract diversion target with current achievable performance and secures a modest rate reduction for customers.
Public Works staff (Anna Luke Jones, speaker 33) and consultant Leith Izette (speaker 27) reviewed why transformation credits used previously to…
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