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.
[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.