12.10.070 Collection and disposal services—rates

12.10.070 Collection and disposal services—rates.

(1) Except as may hereafter be fixed by resolution of the Town Council, the owner or occupant of each occupied residence within the Town of Garfield, together with each commercial or business establishment therein where garbage is created or accumulated, shall pay the following, respective monthly charge for garbage collection and disposal service:

(a) Residential..................................................$28.49

(b) Non-dumpster Commercial .......................$43.11

(d) Light Commercial dumpster.....................$65.60 per dumpster, plus $6.75 per account.

(e) Heavy Commercial dumpster...................$93.72 per dumpster, plus $6.75 per account.

(f) Rental dumpster – 1.5 yards........$40.75 per dumpster pick-up

(g) Rental dumpster – 2 yards.........$68.45 per dumpster pick-up

(h) Apartment, hotel, or other multi-residential structures...................................................$26.96 per residential unit; provided, if there are more than 3 such units in a single structure, the owner may elect to provide a dumpster and be charged at the commercial dumpster rate.

(i) Trailer courts.....................................$28.49 per trailer or mobile home.

(j) Rental roller cart..............$6.00 per roller cart pick-up

(k) Demolition and construction debris, extraordinary items........double the dump rate charged at the Whitman County landfill (per pound).

(l) All residences, apartments, hotels, multi-residential structures, trailers or mobile homes shall be allowed a maximum of one roller cart per residential unit. Any additional roller cart shall cost $6.00 each per week per use.

(m) Roller carts (initial).....................................$15.00 for the initial one roller cart provided by the Town to be billed over a 3-month period, at $5.00 a month;

(additional).............................at actual cost to the Town to be paid in advance of receipt of the additional cart, to be refunded if no longer needed and returned undamaged.

(n) Roller carts (replacement).....................................at actual cost to the Town for any damaged roller cart that has to be replaced by the Town to be paid in advance of receipt of the additional or replacement cart.

(2) The rates fixed in sections (a-i), above, shall increase 3% each year, applied biannually for billing purposes. For the purposes of computing the biannual billing increases, each biannual billing increase shall be based upon the respective rates fixed in Subsection A, above, plus any annual increases applied on and after December 1, 2012 (e.g., the billing increase for each rate for the biennium beginning on January 1, 2013, shall be equal to 3% increase applied for each year beginning December 1, 2012).

(3) Any residence to which municipal water service is being provided at a given time shall be considered to be an “occupied residence” for the purpose of this Section. Also, for the purposes of this Section, the term “Light Commercial” dumpster shall mean a dumpster which contains an average of 150 lbs. of refuse per week, and “Heavy Commercial” shall mean a dumpster containing an average of more than 150 lbs per week. Such averages shall be determined by the Town on a periodic basis. (Res. 2012-18, 2012; Res. 2012-16, 2012; Res. 2012-01, 2012; Ord. 411-N, §1, 2011; Ord. 399-N, §1, 2011; Ord. 390-N, §1, 2010; Ord. 364-N, §1, 2008; Ord. 334-N, §1, 2006; Ord. 324-N, §1, 2005)