False Rate Reporting's Impact on Rate Comparisons
My investigation of trash bills and discovery that some residents are being charged a lot more than the rates reported to this city suggests to me that we need to, at a minimum, make some changes to the city's existing ordinance and how it is enforced.
It also means something relevant to our study of organized collection. Remember all those rate comparisons I was doing, with the graphs comparing Maplewood rates with those of various Metro cities with organized hauling? The numbers I used for Maplewood were the base rates reported by the haulers -- rates that are in question, now that I have compared them to some actual bills paid by Maplewood residents. And that's not even considering the tacked-on "environmental" fees and fuel surcharges (which, as far as I have found so far, don't get added to bills in organized cities).
I remember one gentleman who testified on March 28th said that a couple of bucks a month is trivial and not worth giving up personal choice of hauler. But now we're looking at residents paying hundreds of dollars more per year -- compared to what their hauler tells the city is their rate. And what they'd pay in an organized collection city today is even lower.
It also means something relevant to our study of organized collection. Remember all those rate comparisons I was doing, with the graphs comparing Maplewood rates with those of various Metro cities with organized hauling? The numbers I used for Maplewood were the base rates reported by the haulers -- rates that are in question, now that I have compared them to some actual bills paid by Maplewood residents. And that's not even considering the tacked-on "environmental" fees and fuel surcharges (which, as far as I have found so far, don't get added to bills in organized cities).
I remember one gentleman who testified on March 28th said that a couple of bucks a month is trivial and not worth giving up personal choice of hauler. But now we're looking at residents paying hundreds of dollars more per year -- compared to what their hauler tells the city is their rate. And what they'd pay in an organized collection city today is even lower.
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