#11 Introduce and schedule a public hearing to increase landfill fees (File Or. #2011-505)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS MEMORANDUM
November 30, 2011
TO: City Council
FROM: John Whitcomb, Operations Director
SUBJECT: Introduction and Schedule a Public Hearing On a Proposed Ordinance
Amending the City’s Solid Waste Ordinance to Increase Sanitary Landfill
Fees (File Ordinance 2011-505)
Summary
File Ordinance 2011-505 amends Janesville General Ordinance 8.64 (Solid Waste and
Recycling). Specifically, the proposed Ordinance increases the tipping fee at the Sanitary
Landfill, from the current rate of $33.00 per ton to $35.00 per ton, effective January 10,
2012. Per vehicle disposal rates are increased proportionally. The increase is consistent
with City Council direction during their review of the 2012 Sanitation Fund budget.
Background
Based upon projected costs and the tons of waste expected to be disposed at the City’s
sanitary landfill in 2012, the 2012 Proposed Sanitation Fund budget included an increase in
landfill tipping fees of $1.00 per ton in 2012 – from $33.00 per ton to $34.00 per ton. The
proposed fee would be sufficient to ensure costs associated with the landfill are fully
recovered, and was calculated utilizing historical methods.
During discussion of the 2012 Proposed budget, the City Council directed the tipping fee be
increased by an additional $1.00 per ton above the budgetary proposal – up to $35.00 per
ton. This was done to reduce the amount of Sanitation Fund balance that is projected to be
drawn down in 2012. The fund balance drawdown is related to expenditures in excess of
revenue in both the solid waste collection and recycling programs.
Recommendation
It is recommended that, following the first reading, Ordinance 2011-505 be scheduled for
public hearing and final action at either the January 9, 2012 regular City Council meeting.
cc: Jay Winzenz, Director of Administrative Services/Assistant City Manager
Carl Weber, Director of Public Works
Peter Riggs, Assistant Operations Director
Mandy Bonneville, Solid Waste Manager
ORDINANCE NO. 2011-505
An ordinance amending
the City’s Solid Waste Ordinance to Increase Sanitary Landfill
Fees.
THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JANESVILLE DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION I.
Sections 8.64.150(A), and (B) of the Code of General Ordinances of the
City of Janesville are hereby amended to read as follows:
8.64.150 FEE SCHEDULE
A.
For all materials hauled to the Sanitary Landfill in vehicles other than City
of Janesville owned vehicles, excluding special wastes and wastes used as daily cover,
the fee charged shall be the greater of:
Thirty five dollars and
Thirty three dollars and 00/100 cents ($33.00)
00/100 cents ($35.00)
per ton, or
B.
The following applicable minimum fee regardless of the actual weight
deposited:
four
1. Passenger cars, three dollars and seventy five cents ($3.75)
dollars and 00/100 cents ($4.00);
2. Station wagons, mini-vans and sport utility vehicles, five dollars and
five dollars and twenty five cents ($5.25);
00/100 cents ($5.00)
3. Vans, mid-size pickup trucks and trailers with a capacity of two cubic
eight dollars and fifty cents
yards or less, eight dollars and 00/100 cents ($8.00)
($8.50);
4. Full size pickup trucks and trailers with a capacity of more than two
twelve dollars and 00/100
cubic yards, eleven dollars and twenty five cents ($11.25)
cents ($12.00);
5. All other vehicles and trailers, including those which have been
modified to increase capacity beyond standard capacity, thirty three dollars and 00/100
thirty five dollars and 00/100 ($35.00).
cents ($33.00)
SECTION II. This ordinance and its fees shall take effect at 12:00 o’clock
a.m. on January 10, 2012, the public interest, welfare, benefit and good so
requiring, and the Common Council so finding.
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ADOPTED:
Motion by:
Second by:
APPROVED:
Councilmember Aye Nay Pass Absent
Dongarra-Adams
Liebert
Eric J. Levitt, City Manager
McDonald
Rashkin
ATTEST:
Steeber
Voskuil
Jean Ann Wulf, City Clerk-Treasurer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Assistant City Attorney
Proposed by: Operations Division
Prepared by: Operations Division
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