ORDINANCE NO. 2557

AMENDING SECTION 14-10, REFUSE COLLECTION FEES, BY INCREASING THE SINGLE FAMILY RATE FROM $7.00 TO $7.50 PER MONTH AND THE COMMERCIAL RATES BY 7$ AND ADDING A PROVISION CONCERNING REFUSE COLLECTION ON PRIVATE PROPERTY

RECITALS.

WHEREAS, the increase in the commercial and residential rates are required as a result of increases imposed on the City in tipping fees at the County landfill, gasoline and other costs of goods and supplies.

WHEREAS, a new Section 14-10 (D) is necessary to make clear that a recipient of City refuse service has the duty to provide an area on which the refuse trucks and equipment may operate without damage to the pavement and possible danger to City personnel and equipment.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION:

1. Section 14-10(A) is amended by increasing the rates so that it shall read:

Sec. 14-10. FEES

(A) COLLECTION AT GROUND LEVEL OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY. The fees for collection and disposal of refuse placed for collection at ground level of the right-of-way, and within 5 feet of the travelled portion of the right-of-way from which collection is made, shall be at the following monthly rates, collected monthly with the water bill:

(1) RESIDENTIAL RATE. The following rate shall apply for all residential uses:

(a) Single-family dwellings: Seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) per month for weekly collection of all refuse. Residential rates shall apply to mobile homes, travel trailers, and equivalent structures or vehicles which are used as a residence.

(b) Double or multi-family dwellings: the following monthly rates shall apply to weekly collection of all refuse at a single pickup point for each structure:

2 units . . . $12.01

3 units . . . 16.59

4 units . . . 21.14

5 units . . . 25.79

6 units . . . 30.36

7 units . . . 34.92

8 units . . . 39.48

(c) Senior citizen rate: A person who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older and is a head of a household (as defined by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) may certify as to such facts on forms to be supplied by the finance department of the city and, having so certified, is entitled to receive a reduction of one dollar ($1.00) per month from the basic minimum rate applicable to the residence of such person for residential refuse removal.

If a multi-family residential user has eight (8) or more units in one structure and one collection point, the superintendent may charge such owner, at the owners request, according to the commercial rate as set forth in paragraph (A)(2)(a) of this section.

(2) COMMERCIAL RATE: All non-residential, assembly, institutional, business and commercial uses shall be charged the commercial rate set forth below:

(a) The minimum charge shall be ten dollars and sixty-eight cents ($10.68) per month for weekly collection of up to one hundred seventy-five (175) gallons of refuse. Rates for more frequent collection (based on five (5) thirty-five gallon containers being equal to one hundred seventy-five (175) gallons) per pickup shall be:

Once a week service . . . $10.68

Twice a week service . . . 18.50

Three times a week service . . . 26.44

Four times a week service . . . 34.33

Five times a week service . . . 42.27

Six times a week service . . . 50.20

For each additional thirty-five (35) gallons per pickup, or part thereof, an additional charge of one dollar and ninety-six cents ($1.96) shall be added to the monthly rate.

(b) The monthly rental and service charge for the collection of sanitation tanks shall be as follows:

1. The monthly service charge for handling compacted material placed in tanks, from stationary compactors, shall be three times the standard tank rate.

2. The monthly service charge for handling and servicing portable compactors shall be based on the capacity of the unit and shall be three times the comparable tank rate.

(3) INDUSTRIAL RATE. All industrial users shall be charged the industrial rate.

(a) The minimum charge shall be twenty one dollars and one cent ($21.01) per month for weekly collection of up to one hundred seventy-five (175) gallons of refuse not to exceed a total of two hundred fifty (250) pounds in weight.

(b) Additional service by frequency or volume may be provided an industrial user on a cost basis determined by the sanitation superintendent based on the frequency, volume, weight, loading-out difficulty and nature of material to be disposed of.

2. Section 14-10 is further amended by the addition of a new subsection (D) to read as follows:

(D) It shall be the duty of each owner or occupant of property from which refuse is collected to provide a surface or area with sufficient structural integrity so that the refuse collection trucks and equipment may safely operate thereon.

INTRODUCED this 18th day of December, 1991.

PASSED and ADOPTED this 8th day of January, 1992.

NAME

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President of the Council

Attest:

Neva B. Lockhart, CMC

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City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 2557, was introduced, read, and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said body held on the 18th day of December, 1991, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City, at least ten days before its final passage.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 9th day of January, 1992.

Neva B. Lockhart

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Neva B. Lockhart, CMC

City Clerk

Published: December 22, 1991

Published: January 10, 1992

Effective: February 9, 1992