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Council adopts new solid-waste impact fee to fund a transfer station and equipment for growth
Summary
Council approved an ordinance and resolution creating a solid-waste impact fee intended to fund capital costs (collection bins, transfer station, vehicles). Consultant estimates the fee at about $795 per new residential customer and $721 per new commercial customer.
City staff and consultant Kevin Winslow of Innovative Technical Solutions presented a study supporting a new solid-waste impact fee to finance capital items related to growing waste demands: collection bins, a proposed transfer station, new collection and hauling vehicles, and administrative costs. The fee applies to new customers and developments, not existing households.
Winslow described components used to derive per-customer fees: bin costs, a transfer-station share, collection-vehicle capital costs and hauling equipment. He said the study modeled build-out demand and used local vendor prices and benchmarking where necessary.
"Every new residential and commercial customer gets these two types of bins," the consultant said about municipal solid-waste and recycling carts and explained how vehicle and transfer-station costs were allocated across projected new customers. Staff cited an estimate of roughly $795.47 for the total residential impact fee and $721 for commercial customers, to be charged at building-permit time for new development.
Council discussed bin counts, transfer-station scale (design capacity cited at 675 tons per day in the consultant's master plan) and whether the city might later serve outside customers. Staff said fees are aimed at new development so current residents do not pay for growth-related capital, and council approved the ordinance and associated resolution to adopt the fee schedule.
