City Council

10A. CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION NO. CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE MAXIMUM PERMITTED SERVICE CHARGES FOR SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES” collection, disposal, recycling, and processing of solid waste within the City. CR&R is proposing to increase the rates it charges for the collection and handling of solid waste within the City in order to account for the increased cost of complying with certain new organic waste mandates. The attached Resolution would, if approved and adopted by the City Council, implement these rate increases (proposed as 3.5% for single family residential customers and 8.3% for commercial customers). Out of an abundance of caution, and without conceding the applicability of Proposition 218 (Prop. 218) to solid waste rate changes, a notice was mailed for a public hearing set for this evening’s regular meeting of the City Council to discuss the proposed solid waste rate increases called for by the first amendment to the CR&R franchise agreement. RECOMMENDED ACTION: 1. City Council conduct a public hearing to accept written protests and verbal comments against the increased solid waste fees, track the number of valid written protests and, if the number of written protests received by the close of the public comment portion of the hearing is not sufficient to constitute a majority, make a finding that there is not a majority protest by property owners and/or tenants; and 2. Approve Resolution No. 2026-33, entitled: CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE MAXIMUM PERMITTED SERVICE CHARGES FOR SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES.”