PORT HUENEME : Garbage Rates to Go Up 17% on July 1
The Port Hueneme City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to raise garbage rates by 17%, but the city will get no new revenue from the increase.
Residential disposal rates will go up July 1 from $10.40 to $12 per month for homes and small apartment buildings.
The rate hike was in response to a $9-per-ton increase in the amount that refuse companies have to pay to use landfills. In addition, an annual 5.5% cost-of-living raise was granted to trash haulers.
The council also approved Wednesday a regulation requiring all new construction projects to install low-flow toilets, showers and faucets to conserve water.
Cities throughout California will be required to pass such ordinances before Jan., 1, 1992. But imminent water cutbacks for the city, and “an awareness that regardless of how much water we may have available, there is no excuse to waste it,” prompted early action, said Tom Figg, Port Hueneme community development director.
“It’s our way of educating people and starting the conservation process before we are required to do so,” Figg said.
The water-saving ordinance will take effect July 6.
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