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Council approves assessments for past-due Recology Dixon accounts after staff outreach
Summary
Staff and Recology reported outreach reduced past-due refuse accounts from 707 customers (>$177,000) in March to 255 accounts totaling about $86,000 as of June; council approved placing the remaining delinquencies on the tax roll.
Public Works staff and Recology Dixon representatives presented the annual lien process for unpaid refuse accounts. Staff said initial March counts were 707 customers totaling more than $177,000; follow-up communication and letters reduced that number during the process to 328 and then to 255 accounts totaling approximately $86,000 by the time of the hearing. Recology's general manager described their repeated billing and notice efforts and the company's responsibility to make maximum efforts to collect prior to the hearing.
Council discussed thresholds for placing small balances on the tax roll (one councilmember called a $25 minimum "ridiculously low" and suggested considering a higher threshold) but did not change the established franchise agreement for this cycle. A motion to approve the assessments passed on a roll-call vote; staff and Recology will proceed with placing the listed assessments on the county tax roll per the franchise agreement.
