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Council adopts sanitation rates after debate over privatization and fund payback
Summary
Council adopted new sanitation rates (residential $41 for single-can twice-weekly; $64 for two-can service) after hearing staff analysis showing a $706,000 fund balance owed to the general fund and debate about privatization versus in-house modernization.
The council voted to set residential sanitation at $41 per month for single-can twice-weekly service and $64 for two-can service. The motion by Council member (S6) passed after a roll call in which one councilor recorded a "No." The adopted rates built on staff projections that the city could be in the black with the adjusted fees and a separate yard-waste fee.
Council discussion included a detailed analysis by a council member (S8) who evaluated a hybrid model versus full privatization and reported a $706,000 amount shown on the sanitation fund balance sheet as owed to the general fund. "This big red number at the bottom is the line on the balance sheet, the $706,000 that's due back to the city from the sanitation fund," the council member said. Some members urged waiting until March to gather a year's worth of data before finalizing longer-term structural decisions; others argued acting now was necessary to begin catch-up funding.
