County may increase annual solid waste assessment to $154

Posted on June 12, 2019

In response to annual shortfalls in the county’s solid waste budget, the Taylor County Commission is looking at a variety of options to increase revenues, including increasing the solid waste assessment, eliminating a discount given to RV sites and hunting camps in the county and charging for large loads of vegetative or construction and demolition (C&D) waste disposed of at roll-off sites.

According to County Environmental Services Director Gary Wambolt, one of the issues facing the County Solid Waste Department is the continued use of roll-off sites by city residents and commercial contractors – despite an ID card system introduced in 2018 that was intended to limit use of roll-off sites to only county residents who pay the annual assessment.

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