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HEARING - Environmental Management Department recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign:
1) Resolution 119-2024 127-2024 for the November 2024 election to:
a) Place a ballot measure requesting voters to support a $6.00 per Equivalent Dwelling Unit (EDU) Special Tax increase (requiring a 2/3 supermajority voter approval Zone of Benefit C 73299 within the County Service Area (CSA) 10) to continue to provide a previously established waste management service for Zone of Benefit C #73299 (Tahoe Basin including the City of South Lake Tahoe), with the $6 per EDU increase providing approximately $57,000 of additional revenue annually, dedicated to waste collection, processing, reclamation, and disposal services; and
b) Approve the following ballot measure language: “Shall the measure to levy an annual special tax in the amount of $12 per EDU, with an annual adjustment using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, on each improved parcel of land within the ZOB, commencing fiscal year 2025-26 and continuing for an unlimited duration, to be used for waste collection, processing, reclamation, and disposal services and generating an annual revenue of approximately $114,000, to replace the current benefit assessment of $6 per EDU, be adopted?” (Cont. 6/25/2024, Item 55)
FUNDING: County Service Area 10 Waste Management Fees and Special Taxes.
Staff recommending this matter be Continued off Calendar.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The Policy and Procedure Guidelines for Creation and Administration of Zones of Benefit within a County Service Area (Guidelines), amended version adopted June 2, 1987, provided for the Zone Advisory Committee to make recommendations regarding the level of the annual assessments to be placed on the tax roll. Assessments were set annually by Resolution of the Board, as allowed under County Service Area laws at the time. On February 10, 2015 (Legistar File 14-1292), the Guidelines were amended for, among other thi...
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