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Environmental Management Department recommending the Board receive and file the Annual Written Report of Benefit Assessments/Service Charges for County Service Area 10 Waste Management Fees.
FUNDING: County Service Area 10 Waste Management Fees. (100%)
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Title 3, Division 2, Part 2, Chapter 2.5 of the Government code, also known as “County Service Area Law," contains the regulations for establishing and governing county service areas. The County is authorized to form Zones of Benefit within a County Service Area. County Service Area 10 was formed in 1988 to provide certain services within the incorporated and unincorporated areas of the County, including household hazardous waste, solid waste, and liquid waste management. The City Councils of the City of Placerville and the City of South Lake Tahoe each consented, by Resolution, to be included in CSA 10.
The lands included in CSA 10 are subject to fees assigned for specific waste management services. The fees are assigned to improved parcels of land where the assessed value of the improvement is $10,000 or greater. Household hazardous waste and solid waste management fees are based on the use of the land and the volume of waste occurring from the use, described as an Equivalent Dwelling Unit (EDU). Liquid waste management fees are not subject to the EDU multiplier. A detailed description of the property uses and EDUs used to calculate the fees is included as Exhibit A of the attached Resolution.
All of the proposed benefit assessments/service charges are a continuation of the pre-existing benefit assessments/service charges that have been in place and collected prior to the effective date of Proposition 218 which was approved by the voters in November, 1996. The continued assessments are not subject to a vote. County Counsel has previously determined that, so long as they are not increased and there is no change to the methodology by which the amounts are calculated, ...
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