SIMI VALLEY : Council to Consider Options on Garbage
A month after a countywide trash panel decided to scuttle plans for a regional waste authority, the Simi Valley City Council tonight will consider other options for controlling the city’s trash flow.
The council will also discuss asking the county to refund $22,600 that the city paid toward an audit of existing countywide trash agencies as part of an effort to form the new authority.
Similar fees were paid by the county and its other nine cities before the Ventura County Waste Commission in March agreed to abandon plans to form a countywide waste authority.
Councilman Bill Davis said that he was glad that plans for the authority collapsed and that he hopes that the city can recover its share of the audit fee.
“The differences in trash philosophy just run too deep for all of us to get together as a single agency,” he said. “Letting us go our own separate way is a much more viable approach.”
The city had planned to add a five-cent-a-month surcharge to residents’ trash bills to cover the cost of the audit.
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