The Idaho County Commission has scheduled a public hearing on a proposed 25 percent fee increase for solid waste disposal.
According to a news release from the commissioners, the amount of solid waste the county’s contractor, Simmons Sanitation, had to haul in the past five years has far exceeded the base amount agreed upon 10 years ago.
In 2012, Idaho County contracted with Simmons to haul a base rate of 4,630 tons of solid waste a year from the Camas Prairie and Salmon River area. That contracted amount has been exceeded every year since 2017. In 2020, the total tonnage collected was more than 937 tons over the base rate; in 2021, it was 991 tons over the base rate.
The hearing will be held Aug. 23 at 10 a.m. in the commissioners’ meeting room of the Idaho County Courthouse in Grangeville. The last solid waste disposal increase of 4.9% was passed in 2019. (Lewiston Tribune)
