The other reason is to reduce the amount of general fund money that is used to make up the gap between the revenue generated by fees and the cost of providing curbside pickup of trash and recycling.
One is to cover higher costs (fuel, materials, truck maintenance). Two reasons were given for the proposed increase. Table of Ord 23-11 Proposed Trash Cart Fees (current prices = top of current range)
Here’s a breakdown of the current prices, compared to the amounts in the administration’s proposed increase. The current costs are set at the top of the range. Seats on the board of public works are all appointed by the mayor. The current pricing scheme in local law is defined as a range, for each cart size, with the exact amount decided by the three-member board of public works. Volan put it like this: “I don’t think that we have to keep this vehicle alive, to encourage the administration to bring us a new ordinance for first reading the Wednesday after recess in late July.” There was no appetite among councilmembers on Wednesday for postponing a vote on the price increase, with the idea of eventually sorting out among themselves an increase they could all support. Next week’s June 21 meeting is the final meeting before the council takes a break for the summer. Given that 7 of 8 councilmembers present at Wednesday’s meeting are on the record in support of some kind of increase, it’s possible that the administration will put forward a different proposed increase when the council resumes meeting on July 26. The bigger the cart, the greater the monthly cost. The city offers three different cart sizes-35-gallon, 64-gallon, and 96-gallon. Factoring into Flaherty’s decision not to move his own amendment was some uncertainty expressed by public works director Adam Wason about the number of each cart size that the city currently has in service. Steve Volan can be added to the number of councilmembers who support an increase-because he co-sponsored an amendment with Matt Flaherty to increase trash cart fees by even more than the administration’s proposal.įlaherty and Volan contemplated putting forward their amendment, but in the end did not. That made 6 different councilmembers who cast a vote in support of at least some increase in trash cart fees. Voting in favor of the amended proposal, which was sponsored by councilmember Sue Sgambelluri, were: Sgambelluri, Ron Smith, and Susan Sandberg. Voting in favor were: Matt Flaherty, Kate Rosenbarger, and Isabel Piedmont-Smith.Īn amendment to the proposal to increase the fees-but by a smaller amount-also failed. On Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council voted down a proposal from mayor John Hamilton’s administration to increase monthly trash cart pickup fees by at least 58 percent.
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