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HEARING - Environmental Management Department recommending the Board:
1) Conduct a hearing to consider the annual report of delinquent mandatory refuse collection fees; and
2) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 115-2020 confirming the annual report of delinquent mandatory refuse collection fees for South Tahoe Refuse Co., establishing the delinquent amounts as special assessments for Fiscal Year 2020-21, and providing for the collection thereof in the same manner as the County’s ad valorem property taxes.
FUNDING: Non-General Fund / County Service Area No. 10 - Solid Waste funds.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On December 31, 1970, the Tahoe Regional Planning agency approved an ordinance prohibiting issuance of a building permit for any Lake Tahoe occupancy unless solid waste collection and disposal was provided by a licensed or franchised solid waste hauler or by a public agency, making solid waste refuse and garbage collection mandatory in the Tahoe Basin.
In October 1972, El Dorado County voters passed a mandatory collection ordinance for all residential units in the unincorporated area of the Lake Tahoe Basin. The goals of mandatory refuse collection are to: a) reduce illegal disposal; b) provide for expanded disposal, recycling, and yard waste programs which support the County’s compliance with AB 939 that mandated 50% diversion by the year 2000; and c) institute a consolidated and single refuse collection rate within designated mandatory collection areas.
On December 29, 1981, the Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance 3214 Mandatory Refuse and Garbage Collection of South Lake Tahoe, which prescribed the duty of the parcel owner to provide for the payment of the mandatory refuse collection and disposal fees.
On January 26, 1999, the Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance 4525, which revised the mandatory solid waste collection areas in the County and provided a lien hearing process for delinquent mandatory collection amounts out...
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