Seal Beach trash collection bills increased last month.
Consolidated Waste Disposal has the trash collection franchise for the city of Seal Beach.
The franchise agreement allows an annual “adjustment”
The rate adjustment, as it is called, went into effect on July 1, 2010 and will remain in effect through June 2011, according to a July 27 letter by City Manager David Carmany.
The letter was addressed to Raymond Hakim, Consolidated’s division controller.
The Carmany letter said the rates went up 0.78 percent for the Consumer Price Index and 10.83 percent for the cost of using the Orange County landfill.
“This amounts to a $1.77 adjustment to the previous rate of $15.25 for residential customers to $17.02 and $1.70 adjustment for multi-family residential customers to from $14.68 to $16.38,” Carmany said.
“As you know, per the existing franchise agreement, the CPI adjustment does not exceed 5 percent per year and therefore did not require approval by the City Council,” Carmany said.
However, the CPI adjustment wasn’t the only rate increase to affect your local trash bill.
The letter went on to say the current county disposal rate of $22 per ton had not been increased since 1997
Carmany wrote that, due to the County of Orange Waste Disposal Agreement approved by the City Council on July 13, 2009, the waste disposal rate increased to $29.95 per ton, effective July 1, 2010.
“As you know, this landfill disposal rate increase is a pass-through to residential and commercial customers,” Carmany said.
