The City Council voted 8-5 on Monday night to overhaul Denver’s solid waste collection program, making weekly recycling and composting free but setting up monthly fees for collections of trash headed to the landfill.
Just more than $25 million was budgeted for solid waste collections in the city this year. With a need for more trucks, next year’s costs are expected to go up to about $33.5 million, according to a staff presentation. With new fees being imposed, the city is expecting a yet-to-be-determined return to the general fund.
of the city’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure. The program has a $3.8 million annual education budget. The city plans to hire a staff member to lead that work.They included an effort by Councilman Kevin Flynn to delay the implementation of the program until October 2023, in part to give the city time to hire enough drivers to support increased collections.
The program has an affordability component that provides instant rebates to households that make 60% or less of the area median income. Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca proposed an automatic enrollment in that rebate program for qualified residents in specific neighborhoods the city knows are vulnerable to gentrification. That amendment also failed.
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