File #: 2025-0182    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reading
File created: 7/8/2025 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to solid waste fees charged at recycling and transfer facilities and at the Cedar Hills regional landfill; and amending Ordinance 12564, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 10.12.021 and establishing an effective date.
Sponsors: Girmay Zahilay
Indexes: Fees, Solid Waste
Attachments: 1. A. Proposed Solid Waste Disposal Fees for 2026, 2. Transmittal Letter, 3. Fiscal Note, 4. Legislative Review Form - 2026 Rates, 5. MSWAC Letter - 2026 Rates, 6. SWAC Letter of Support - 2026 Rates, 7. 2025-0182_SR_Solid Waste Fee Ordinance, 8. 2025-0182_ATT2_AMD1_Technical Correction, 9. 2025-0182_ATT3_Title Amendment T1, 10. 2025-0182_RevisedSR_Solid Waste Fee Ordinance
Staff: Rose, Terra
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to solid waste fees charged at recycling and transfer facilities and at the Cedar Hills regional landfill; and amending Ordinance 12564, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 10.12.021 and establishing an effective date.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS
1. The solid waste division of the department of natural resources and parks provides essential public services that protect human health, the environment, and the quality of life in our region.
2. The solid waste division operates the Cedar Hills regional landfill, eight transfer stations, and two drop boxes. It also provides innovative programs to help customers prevent and recycle waste.
3. The department of natural resources and parks is proposing to change the rate solid waste collection entity per-ton-rate vehicles are charged for disposal of municipal solid waste from $165.91 to $179.18 per ton, effective January 1, 2026.
4. The department of natural resources and parks is proposing to increase the fixed-annual charge for disposal of municipal solid waste from $23,337,835 to $26,838,510, effective January 1, 2026.
5. The impact on the average single-family household with a 32-gallon weekly garbage collection service would be approximately seventy-one cents per month in 2026.
6. The department of natural resources and parks will not increase the $13.00 per ton tip fee Surcharge for construction and demolition waste generated within the county's jurisdiction and disposed of at landfills by designated facilities.
7. Fee increases for 2026 enable the solid waste division of the department of natural resources and parks to maintain essential solid waste disposal and recycling services and generate the revenue needed to carry out programmatic responsibilities required under adopted policies.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 12564, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 10.12.021 are hereby amended as follows:
Except as otherwise provided in K.C.C. 10.04.020 ...

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