The total rate after five years by 2027-28 would be $40.46 per month - an increase of about 59.5% over the current rate. Option A, maintaining current residential operations and staffing, and not including a move of street sweeping to Public Utilities from the Department of Public Works: $36.66 per month in the 2023-24 fiscal year, an increase of $11.29 from the current rate, with subsequent increases of $1.10 per month in 2024-25, $1.13 in 2025-26, 78 cents in 2026-27, and 79 cents in 2027-28.
But over the course of budget hearings in the first week of June, council members proposed more than 140 budget motions for their own priorities, of which the council later approved about 120 – wish lists that collectively added up to another $157 million.Īccording to internal documents provided to City Council members in February, several options were under consideration at that time by city administrators for possible rate models for trash collection. Together, the mayor and council hailed the agreement as a success in cooperation and compromise.ĭyer initially presented his proposed budget for $1.85 billion to the City Council in mid-May. In a unanimous vote Thursday, the Fresno City Council approved the record $1.87 billion spending plan hammered out in recent weeks with Mayor Jerry Dyer. But it’s going to take a sizable bump in the rates residents pay for trash collection to balance the books for another major department. Some Fresno city departments including police, fire and parks/recreation are getting significant increases in their budgets in the 2023-24 fiscal year that begins July 1. Flanking Maxwell are (from left), Councilmember Nelson Esparza, Mayor Jerry Dyer, Councilmembers Luis Chavez, Annalisa Perea and Garry Bredefeld, City Manager Georgeanne White, and Councilmember Mike Karbassi.
Fresno City Council President Tyler Maxwell, at microphone, discusses the city’s $1.87 billion budget that won unanimous City Council approval on Thursday, June 22, 2023.
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