Recology waste disposal cost expected to tick up less than a dollar a month for a typical account
By Morgan Rothborne, Ashland.news
A review of operations and expenditures at the severe weather shelter at 2200 Ashland St. during the 2023-24 winter season is on the agenda for the Ashland City Council study session on Monday evening.
Emergency Management Coordinator Kelly Burns will share a “summary of operations,” according to meeting materials.
Council will also review a rate increase of 3.8% from Recology due to a consumer price index-based adjustment allowed for in the city’s franchise agreement with Recology. The “typical customer” can expect an increase in waste management costs of less than a dollar a month, according to meeting materials.
At the council business meeting Tuesday, city Housing Program Manager Linda Reid will present the Housing and Human Services recommendations for which applicants to award $134,000 in grant funding for regional social services organizations. Reid will also present the committee’s recommendations for $350,000 in Affordable Housing Trust Funds.
In other council business, councilors will also be asked to vote on a three-year collective bargaining contract with the Ashland Police Association and a budget adjustment to accommodate a grant of $284,001 awarded to Ashland Fire & Rescue for community wildfire planning.
Council will also vote on a proposed contract to remove and replace asbestos-containing tiles at Briscoe Elementary School.
The meetings will be held in the Ashland City Council chamber at 1175 East Main St. The study session Monday will begin at 5:30 p.m., while the Tuesday business meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Both meetings can be attended in person or watched remotely through Channel 9 or Channels 180 and 181 (Charter Communications) or live streamed via rvtv.sou.edu select RVTV Prime.
Public testimony will be accepted and can be delivered either via Zoom, in person, or as written comment. To sign up for public comment, fill out the public testimony form.
Email Ashland.news reporter Morgan Rothborne at morganr@ashland.news.
