The City of Huntsville is considering rate changes for its solid waste collection system.
Huntsville City Councilman Bill Kling opposes sanitation rate increase.When Huntsville City Councilman Bill Kling recently met with residents in his district, a discussion about a big hike in water rates quickly pivoted to questions about a potential rate increase for garbage pickup the city is considering to make up for a deficit in that department.water rate increase.“No, we can go there,” Kling said at the Aug. 21 District 4 meeting at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library.
The enterprise fund comprises entities the City wants to run as businesses, focusing on being self-funded or for management accountability purposes, like the sewer system, the Von Braun Center, the Benton H. Wilcox Municipal Ice Complex, and Orion Amphitheater., the city, in a departure from the past, separated the sanitation fund from the fund for the day-to-day running of the municipality, called the general fund. They placed it with the enterprise fund.
The sanitation fund is in the red, posting a $4.9 million loss for the year, the 2022 financial report revealed.The City provided an additional $2.2 million from the capital improvement fund for more garbage trucks to service the fast-growing city. The amount of garbage and bulk yard collection has also continued to rise, increasing from 482 tons per day in 2021 to 629 tons per day in 2022, a 30% increase in one year, the largest in the last ten years.
The rate study had an anticipated timespan of 14-18 weeks, culminating this month. It is unclear why there was no presentation of rate adjustment scenarios to the council, though the initial schedule had that for July ending.
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