Did you read the notice you got from the City of Lodi, the one that was mailed to every household in town? Granted, it looked like the stuff that would make your eyes gloss over and roll back in your head. But maybe you should dig it out of the garbage, because it concerns how much you’ll soon be paying for garbage service.
Starting next January, state law requires everyone to recycle their organic waste, which includes food scraps, food-soiled paper, lawn clippings, and that Christmas goose carcass. All that will have to go into the yard and garden waste wheeler starting next year.
The city says failure to comply with the new state law could result in the city paying penalties of $10,000 a day.
So now, as I reported earlier, the city is asking Waste Management (the city’s contract garbage hauler) to increase service to pick up the green waste every week. And that will cost you. The proposal is to raise rates by $5 a month to cover the costs of the additional service.
The Lodi City Council will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Oct. 19 at Carnegie Forum to consider adoption of the fee increase. You can file a protest with the City Clerk up to the time the public hearing is closed.
If a majority of property owners and renters file a protest, the increase will not take effect. What then? Good question.
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