Submitted By: Danielle Phillips
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Presentation By: Darren Park
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Department: Public Works
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Resolution 2026-13 concerning a new solid waste rate schedule pursuant to Article IV - Rates and Charges Section 54-121
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OCALA'S RELEVANT STRATEGIC GOALS:
Fiscally Sustainable, Operational Excellence
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Ocala Sanitation Division provides solid waste collection services to 29,453 residential and commercial customers, collecting approximately 68,000 tons annually. Additionally, Waste Pro Inc. collects 3,300 tons of recycling annually through its single-stream curbside recycling program, implemented in 2012.
Solid waste rate increases were approved in 1994, 2003, and 2017-2018, while commercial sanitation rates decreased in 2010. The 2018 solid waste rate study was implemented over five years, with the final adjustment effective October 1, 2020. The rates have remained unchanged since October 1, 2020.
A sequence of events led to the 2017-2018 rate increase. Initially, the long period since the prior 2003 increase necessitated a rate increase to keep pace with inflation-driven increases in operating and capital costs, as well as the transfer to the General Fund. On November 15, 2016, the City Council adopted Resolution 2017-14, which increased monthly sanitation rates for residential and commercial customers beginning January 1, 2017. As approved, residential and commercial sanitation rate increases were phased in over five years, starting on January 1, 2017, and then each subsequent October 1 from 2017 through 2020.
On March 21, 2017, the City Council adopted Resolution 2017-31, which increased monthly sanitation rates for residential customers from May 1, 2017, through September 30, 2018, to cover the cost increase for curbside single-stream recycling following the contract extension. The extension was implemented to align the solid waste disposal and single-stream recyclin...
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