Local News in Brief : Huntington Beach : $5 Fee Levied for Trash, Improvements
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About 45,000 households in the city will be paying $5 more monthly for trash pickup service and capital improvements beginning in September.
The Huntington Beach City Council voted late Monday night to increase the fee to absorb a $1.5-million increase for the city in county dump entrance fees that becomes effective Jan. 1, 1989. But $3 of the $5 increase will be used for capital improvement projects, including the top-priority reconstruction of the now-closed Huntington Beach Pier.
Administrative Services Director Robert Franz said the fee increase will net the city about $1.2 million for the capital improvement projects.
The increase will be reflected in the the twice-monthly city water bill through which residential refuse collection has been charged for the past 20 years.
Councilmen Wes Bannister and Jack Kelly voted against the fee increase; Mayor John Erskine and council members Tom Mays, Peter Green, Ruth Finley and Grace Winchell voted for it.
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