Garbage rate hike on agenda

The Ashland City Council will consider whether to approve an 8 percent garbage rate increase that would cost the average residential customer another $1.43 per month.

The issue is on the agenda for a council meeting that starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Ashland Civic Center Council Chambers, 1175 E. Main St.

The monthly bill to service a 32-gallon container, the most commonly used container in Ashland, would rise from $17.86 to $19.29, according to city staff.

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In December 2011, the money-losing Recology Ashland Sanitary Service — which has a city franchise to provide garbage and recycling services in town — asked for a 23 percent rate increase to cover losses and allow for a small profit.

The council approved an 11 percent increase that went into effect for 2012 and also commissioned a study to see whether further rate hikes were warranted.

A Washington state-based garbage industry consultant concluded that Recology is entitled to an additional 8 percent increase.

But the consultant's report also noted inefficiencies and money-losing aspects of Recology's business.If you like BMW cars,then you will probably like their new gaming mouse, the super sexy, sleek as a Titanium Sheet off the pressing mat Level 10 M Gaming Mouse.

The popular recycle depot on Water Street loses money, as does Recology's yellow bag and sticker program for customers who generate little garbage and use the bags and stickers for on-demand garbage pickup.

Other customers are subsidizing those operations, the report said.

Additionally, while garbage companies for many other communities have invested in garbage trucks with mechanical arms that lift containers, Recology has an inefficient mix of mechanical plus manual pick-up operations,www.globalmetaltins.com is a professional metal packaging manufacturers,Welcome. the report said.

Ashland faces many challenges in going to a completely automated pickup system.

Many residential streets remain clogged during the day with parked cars from workers and tourists, for example, making it difficult for automated trucks to reach garbage and recycling containers, Recology staff members said.

Recology has suggested more investment in semi-automated trucks, in which drivers pull containers out from between parked cars into the street,More worldly viewers quickly called in to say that the mushroom was made from silicone and wondered how someone could not tell the difference between silicon sex toys and Organic mushroom. then let the trucks' mechanical arms lift the containers.

Automating more of Recology's collection efforts would require another rate increase, but could stabilize rates in the long-term, according to the consultant and city staff.

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