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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 095-2021 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 (FY) 2021-22, and providing for the collection thereof in the same manner as the County’s ad valorem property taxes, as provided by the County Solid Waste Management Ordinance (§ 8.42.250).
FUNDING: Non-General Fund /County Service Area No. 10 - Solid Waste funds.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Residential solid waste collection and disposal is mandatory in the unincorporated area of the Lake Tahoe basin pursuant to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and El Dorado County ordinances. 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.
Consistent with provisions of County Ordinance Code § 8.42.120 and § 8.42.130, the County entered into a franchise agreement with South Tahoe Refuse Co., Inc. (South Tahoe Refuse) to provide services within the unincorporated area of the Lake Tahoe Basin, with the exception of a small area serviced by another franchisee.
On January 26, 1999, the Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance 4525, which revised the mandatory solid waste collection areas in the County and provid...
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