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CalWaste outlines 2025 rate change and reports $18,100 in city payments; company cites contract index limits
Summary
CalWaste representative told the council the company paid Isleton $18,100 in 2024 (franchise fees plus recycling reimbursements) and proposed an October 1 rate change tied to a contract index; the company said the contract allows a 4% maximum while its index calculation yielded 4.93%.
Carly King of Cowleys, the city’s solid-waste contractor, presented the company’s 2024 activity and a proposed 2025 rate adjustment to the Isleton City Council.
King said Cowleys paid the city $18,100 in 2024: $12,127 in franchise fees and $5,971 in recycling reimbursement. She reviewed 2024 service tonnage (about 550 tons of trash) and said recycling tonnage and mixed organics increased, which helped the city’s diversion rate. King said the company’s index calculation produced a 4.93% figure but that the service contract caps allowable annual increases at 4%; she said the rate change would take effect Oct. 1.
Council members asked about the meaning of “diversion” and about drivers behind roughly steady trash tonnage despite increased recycling. King said diversion is the percentage of waste diverted from landfill and that population or other factors can affect the total tons collected. She also noted Isleton currently holds a low-population SB 1383 waiver through Dec. 2026.
Council and staff discussed follow-up items — particularly confirming how the contract index was calculated and whether administrative options exist in special circumstances — and took the presentation under advisement.
Provenance: Topic introduced SEG 1042; presentation and Q&A SEG 1045–1130; Q&A continued SEG 1131–1210.
