City staff say the city's Solid Waste Fund is 'structurally unbalanced' and will likely warrant a rate increase in the 2024 fiscal year. It's not clear yet how much that could be.
The city’s trash collection is completely funded out of the Solid Waste Operating and Maintenance Fund, which draws most of its revenue from customers’ solid waste and environmental fees, which have remained flat for four years.
The city ended the 2021 fiscal year in September with $15.1 million in the Solid Waste Operating and Maintenance Fund, according to the“The way the Solid Waste fee works, it is a static fee. It is one price for the garbage can, and that’s it,” Solid Waste Management Department Director David Newman told KSAT after the meeting. “But our costs continue to increase. So we either are going to have to increase the rate, or we reduce service.
Although the monthly environmental fee for solid waste was also cut by $0.50 across the board that year, customers didn’t feel that since it was matched by a corresponding $0.50 hike in the environmental fee for parks. The likelihood of an increase has been openly discussed since at least May 2022, and the FY 2023 budget the
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