Norwalk : City OKs 11.5% Increase in Home Trash Collection Fee
The Norwalk City Council has tentatively approved an 11.5% increase in rates for residential trash collection.
The city’s trash haulers would receive a 7.4% increase, and the rest would cover $152,000 in annual billing costs that the city now plans to pass along to residential customers. The quarterly rate, which was tentatively approved Tuesday, will increase from $31.42 to $35.03. Low-income senior citizens will continue to receive a discounted rate.
The typical rate for commercial hauling--weekly collection of a three-cubic-yard bin--will increase 7.4% from $66.43 a month to $71.34. The city does not handle billing for commercial customers.
Consolidated Disposal Service and Jackson Disposal Service, the city’s two haulers, had asked for about an 18% increase, while an accounting firm that reviewed the proposal recommended that the city grant 9.75%. The city wound up giving less, prompting Consolidated President John Telesio to say: “It’s barely enough to get by.”
New rates are expected to be adopted by the council on July 7. They would be retroactive to July 1.
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