solid waste disposal assessments and tipping fees

0:00Good afternoon, Commissioners. Kevin Pliska, Director of Solid Waste. I'm here to present resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, establishing annual disposal assessments, tipping fees, and other rates, fees, and charges. For funding the Solid Waste Disposal and Resource Recovery System, pursuant to the Pasco County Code of Ordinances, Chapter 90, Article III, also authorizing preparation of the annual disposal assessment role and

0:30the preparation of the appropriate bills and the certification of the assessment role.

0:38We've got a few slides to present to you today. A little bit of history, if you recall. The last seven years we had a seven by seven plan for increasing assessment rates, and that was primarily to fund the waste to energy expansion, which is undergoing right now. We successfully closed on the bonds issuance in February of this year. So with that being said, we are not planning to increase the rate this

1:08year for the upcoming fiscal year and maintaining our tipping fees at $104.03 a ton and the equivalent residential unit rate of $114 per ERU. As we go to the next slide, you will see that Pasco's total residential cost of collection and disposal remains low when compared to other waste-to-energy communities. You can see here we're the

1:38second most economical in that in that range, and some of the higher ends are significantly more expensive than what Pasco's charges. One other thing, this is a new look this year. I'm not sure while I'm showing notes.

1:56Sorry about that.

2:05Let me try this one more time. Here we go. So if you go back and you benchmark um Pasco County's disposal cost starting in nineteen ninety-three and bench that m against the consumer price index. You can see where we are year over year. Even with the last seven by seven increases that you see on the steep climb starting in 2019, we are still 11% lower than what the rate would have been when compared to

2:35CPI. And that's about a 14% decrease in costs when you benchmark it against other types of indexes more that more closely resemble. Solid waste disposal and hauling. So overall, I you know, I think our our our costs are reasonable and less than CPI.

2:53And Kevin, one of the one of the things with that factored in, we actually used to have a really good energy rate with Duke, and that got changed when the laws changed, and that actually hurt us a lot, but we still maintained stability as we're building a brand new plan which helped us prefer us stability down the road.

3:10Yeah, that's excellent detail. In fact, not only was the seven by seven rate plan established for funding the waste to energy. expansion. It was also put in to offset that uh that very good energy plan contract that we have that really is now about a twenty million dollar per year headwinds to the department.

3:34So with that, the Solid Waste Department recommendation is for the board to adopt the annual disposal rate resolution and authorize the county administrator to certify the non-advalorum assessment role to the tax collector.

3:47Okay. Any questions for staff?

3:52Okay. Is there anyone here from the public that wanted to speak to this item that didn't come out earlier?

3:58Okay, and there's no one online? There is no one online. Close public comment to the board. Move approval. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passed.

4:10Thank you.