[Adopted 9-5-2002 by Ord. No. 1115 (§ 11.06 of
the 1964 Code)]
On an annual basis and prior to November 1 of each year, the
Finance and Administration Director shall prepare a refuse/recycling
budget. The budgeted expenditures shall be incorporated into the annual
refuse/recycling user rate review. The budgeted revenues shall be
sufficient to cover projected costs of the contracted service. The
rates shall be set annually by resolution of the Common Council.
Refuse/recycling service charges may be billed monthly, bimonthly
or quarterly and will be billed in the period after which services
are received. Charges shall be payable at the City Clerk-Treasurer's
office or at any other officially designated location. Statements
for such charges in accordance with this article shall become due
and payable within 30 days from and after the date of the statement.
In the event that any such statement or statements are not paid when
due, a penalty of 1% per month will be added thereto.
The property owner is held responsible for all refuse/recycling
bills on premises that he owns. All refuse/recycling bills and notices
of any nature, relative to the refuse/recycling service, will be addressed
to the owner and/or occupant and delivered to the addressee by first-class
mail.
Every reasonable care will be exercised in the proper delivery
of refuse/recycling bills. Failure to receive a refuse/recycling bill,
however, shall not relieve any person of the responsibility for payment
of refuse/recycling rates within the prescribed period, nor exempt
any person from any penalty imposed for delinquency in the payment
thereof.
A.
On or before October 1 of each year, the Finance Department shall
furnish the City Clerk-Treasurer with a listing of all lots or parcels
for which refuse/recycling charges are still owed for service provided
in the year preceding October 1.
B.
On or before October 15 in each year, the City Clerk-Treasurer shall
give notice to the owner or occupant of all lots or parcels of real
estate for which payment is owed and in arrears at the time that the
notice is given. Such notice shall be in writing and shall state the
amount of such arrears, including any penalty assessed pursuant to
the rules of the City. The notice shall also state that unless such
arrears, with any such added penalty, are paid by November 1, thereafter
a penalty of 10% of the amount of such arrears will be added thereto
and that unless such arrears, with any such added penalty, shall be
paid by November 15 thereafter, the same will be levied as a special
charge against the lot or parcel of real estate to which refuse/recycling
service was furnished and for which payment is delinquent. Such notice
may be served by delivery to either such owner or occupant personally
or by letter addressed to such owner or occupant at the post office
address of such lot or parcel of real estate. Failure to serve or
receive such notice, however, shall not relieve any person of the
responsibility for payment for services that have been furnished,
nor exempt any person from any penalty imposed for delinquency in
the payment thereof, nor exempt the property from imposition of a
lien as provided herein.
C.
On November 16, the City Clerk-Treasurer shall certify and file a
list of all lots or parcels of real estate, giving the legal descriptions
thereof, for which the owners or occupants were given notice of arrears
in payment as above specified and for which arrears still remain unpaid.
The list shall state the amount of such arrears together with the
added penalty thereon as herein provided. Each delinquent amount,
including penalty, shall thereupon become a lien upon the lot or parcel
of real estate to which the service was furnished and payment is delinquent
as provided in § 66.0627, Wis. Stats. The delinquent special
charge shall be included in the current or next tax roll for collection
and settlement under Ch. 74, Wis. Stats.
[Amended 3-9-2006 by Ord. No. 1216]
Charges for refuse/recycling service shall begin on the first
day of the month after the building receives an occupancy permit.
