#3 Public hearing and action to increase sanitary landfill fees (File Ord. #2011-505)DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS MEMORANDUM
December 27, 2011
TO: City Council
FROM: John Whitcomb, Operations Director
SUBJECT: Second Reading, Public Hearing, and Action 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.
Staff Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council adopt the proposed Ordinance increasing sanitary
landfill fees from $33.00 per ton to $35.00 per ton, including proportional increases in
per vehicle disposal rates.
Recommended Motion
Move to adopt File Ordinance 2011-505, increasing landfill tipping fees from $33.00 per
ton to $35.00 per tons, and increasing per vehicle disposal rates proportionally.
City Manager Recommendation
The City Manager recommends approval.
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.
ORDINANCE NO. 2011-505
An ordinance amending Chapter 8.64 Solid Waste and Recycling Subsection II,
Section 8.64.150, Fee Schedule.
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
Eric J. Levitt, City Manager
Liebert
McDonald
ATTEST:
Rashkin
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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