2. Increase the Total Waste Management Fee by $0.56 per tonne to $38.00/tonne from $37.44/tonne. This is the fee assessed to municipalities for each tonne of refuse delivered for disposal. This results in $55,780 based on the 2019 municipal tonnage level plus an additional $165,300 due to an increase in municipal tonnes from 99,600 in 2019 to 103,950 in 2020.

3. Increase the fixed cost assessment to Windsor and the 7 County municipalities based on the following chart. Fixed costs are assessed based on population per the 2016 census.


Municipality
2020 Budgeted Fixed Cost Assessment 2019 Budgeted Fixed Cost Assessment Year Over Year Increase In Fixed Cost Assessment
Windsor $4,640,815 $4,407,225 $233,590
Amherstburg $468,723 $445,130 $23,593
Essex $436,479 $414,509 $21,970
Kingsville $460,517 $437,338 $23,179
Lakeshore $782,294 $742,918 $39,376
Lasalle $644,878 $612,419 $32,459
Leamington $589,643 $559,964 $29,679
Tecumseh $496,351 $471,368 $24,983
Total County $3,878,885 $3,683,645 $195,240
Total $8,519,700 $8,090,870 $428,830

(The sum of $55,780 from Recommendation 2 and $428,830 from Recommendation 3 equates to $484,610. This represents a 4.1% increase to the 2019 budgeted total municipal assessment of $11,819,890.)

4. Approve the Fee Schedule (see attached).

5. That any resultant surplus/(deficit) from 2019 operations be contributed to, or funded by, the Rate Stabilization Reserve.

6. That any resultant surplus/(deficit) from 2020 operations be contributed to, or funded by, the Rate Stabilization Reserve.