Wednesday, November 15, 1978
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City wants increase in landfill, trash rates
A fee the University of Kansas pays to use the city landfill will be increased next year from $200 to $350 a month on a sanitation proposal. Proposed "night's Lawrence Cityaucine pavement meeting."
Trash pickup charges for residential users would increase about 14 percent from $3.50 a month to $4 a month under the pro- commercial rates would be increased 10 percent.
Landfill workers will pay 50 cents more an, raising the fee to $3.50. The minimum charge for the first 500 pounds will rise to 96 cents.
City Manager Burford Watson said the landfill rate increase for KU would be justified because the University had not had a rate increase for more than seven years.
THE UNIVERSITY pays $200 a month to dump 1,000 tons of trash at the land-fill, according to Max Slinkard, assistant director of public works.
Watson said that because University officials usually asked for five to six months to budget rate increases, the new landfall rate probably would go into effect next summer.
The new rates for residential and commercial trash pickup will go into effect next month if the proposal is approved at the next Commission meeting.
The rate increases, Watson said, are President Carter's voluntary wage-purchase plan.
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In addition, he said, the amount of the rate increase is not as large as it appears. Residential trash pickup rates have gone from $3 a month in 1970 to the proposed $4 a month in 1979, an increase of 4 percent a year, he said.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the Commission voted unanimously to apply to the Sate Workman's Compensation Board for performance compensation program operated by the city.
City officials said increasing employee insurance premium costs and a good employee safety record were reasons for the request.
About $235,000 has been budgeted to pay for the premiums on a Hartford Insurance Company workman's compensation program next year, Watson said.
The Commission also voted to send a street improvement proposal for Ninth and Michigan streets to the Traffic Safety Commission. The safety commission will continue with its work in Arkansas and Arkansas streets between Ninth and Seventh streets to one-way traffic.
The street improvement was requested by the developer of a proposal 140-m apart-the developer
The Commission also approved $1.7 million in industrial revenue bonds for Packer Plastics Inc and gave final approval to a water rate increase introduced last week.
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