Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to establish an encumbrance within the Special Income Tax Fund to pay 2019 waste disposal tipping fees for the Division of Refuse Collection and to expend funds to pay the tipping fees. This expense is necessary to safely and contractually dispose of the waste collected by the division in the course of pursuing its mission by providing residential refuse collection services to over 334,000 households weekly and picking up bulk items and illegally dumped items as needed.
The Department of Public Service has determined that $16,767,000.00 should be adequate for this purpose.
Previous calendar years' actual tipping fee expenditures totaled $12,943,226.58 (2007), $12,901,357.53 (2008), $13,049,098.46 (2009), $13,312,244.86 (2010), $14,522,167.56 (2011), $16,543,036.71 (2012), $15,873,121.00 (2013), $16,752,000.00 (2014), $17,419,889.00 (2015), $17,134,777.00 (2016), $16,656,304.00 (2017), and $16,763,000.00 in 2018. SWACO tipping fee rates are determined by SWACO's established rate setting process. Due to an existing contractual relationship where the City of Columbus participates in the rate setting process the City is required to use SWACO waste disposal services. The vendors and waste disposal fees for tire disposal services and construction/demolition material disposal services will be determined through the city's competitive bidding process.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
This 2019 expense is budgeted within the Special Income Tax Fund and was a part of Ordinance 2872-2018 tabled by Council on 11/19/2018. The expenditure of $16,767,000.00 is contigent upon the passage of Ordinance 2872-2018.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Ordinance 2872-2018 authorizing the use of Special Income Tax Fund money for waste disposal tipping purposes had to be approved by council before this encumbrance could be established. Per the contract with SWACO, the city is subject to late fees for all invo...
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