Broward Solid Waste Authority presents master plan, outlines phased funding and drop‑off center plan

The Broward Solid Waste Authority and its consultant, SCS Engineers, presented a completed regional master plan at the City of Parkland’s April 15 workshop and described a three‑phase finance and implementation plan that the Authority’s executive committee will ask its governing board to adopt.

Daniel Deitsch, an SCS Engineers representative working on the plan, said the master plan has been sent to the Authority’s executive committee and “the master plan is now complete.” He said the executive committee recommended adoption and that the governing board will consider requesting member municipalities’ approval. Deitsch added the related facilities amendment will be transmitted to interlocal agreement (ILA) members; each member will have 120 days to review and decide whether to approve that amendment.

The plan’s funding model has three phases, Deitsch said. Phase 1 preserves a population‑based contribution (an initial $2 million pooled contribution across ILA members). Phase 2, modeled to start in fiscal year 2028, moves to a per‑ton surcharge imposed at receiving facilities; in the Authority’s model that surcharge is $2.22 per ton. “So the surcharge will be … $2.22 per ton,” Deitsch said. Using the plan’s waste‑generation assumption of about 1.3 tons…