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TITLE OFD OMCU T:
Proposed repeal of WCC 8.14, Garbage Pass - Through Fee
ATTACHMENTS:
Draft ordinance repealing of WCC 8.14, Garbage Pass - Through Fee in its entirety.
SEPA review required? ( ) Yes (X) NO
Should Clerk schedule a hearing? (X) Yes ( ) NO
SEPA review completed? ( ) Yes (X) NO
Requested Date: August 8, 2017 introduction for
September 12, 2017 public hearing
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Repeal WCC 8.14, Garbage Pass - Through Fee in its entirety due to results of historic legal arbitration ruling.
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COUNCIL ACTION:
8/8/2017: Introduced 6 -0, Mann absent
9/12/2017: Adopted 6 -0, Weimer absent, Ord. 2017 -044
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Ord. 2017 -044
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PROPOSED BY: Health
INTRODUCTION DATE: 8/8/2017
ORDINANCE NO. 2017 -0444
REPEAL OF WHATCOM COUNTY CODE (WCC) 8.14, GARBAGE
PASS - THROUGH FEE, IN ITS ENTIRETY
WHEREAS, Ordinance 87 -17 imposed a per ton pass- through fee on all solid waste
disposed at privately owned solid waste disposal facilities, as per WCC 8.14, Garbage Pass -
Through Fee; and,
WHEREAS, due to a 1997 solid waste legal arbitration ruling, the option of funding
solid waste services through the pass- through fee was considered legally untenable; and
solid waste services have since been funded through a solid waste excise tax; and,
WHEREAS, use of a pass- through fee to fund solid waste services, as per WCC 8.14,
Garbage Pass - Through Fee, due to the legal arbitration ruling, has not and will not be
implemented; and,
WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Executive Committee has reviewed and recommended
the repealing WCC 8.14, Garbage Pass - Through Fee.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that WCC
8.14, Garbage Pass - Through Fee is hereby repealed in its entirety as shown in Exhibit A
attached hereto.
ADOPTED this 12th day of September , 2017.
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Dana Brawn <Di5vI5, er -of the Council
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WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
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