(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Barry)
Cabinet received a report from the Head of Environmental Services which provided details of an option to introduce charges for wheeled bins and recycling boxes as part of the 2011/12 budget setting process.
The options, options analysis, including risk assessment and officer preferred option, were set out in the report as follows:
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Option 1: Introduce a charge |
Option 2: Don’t introduce a charge |
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Advantages |
· Fewer requests for bins. · Saves costs · Increased recycling rates. · Reduction in calls to Customer Service Centre. · Fewer receptacles left out in streets. |
· Maintains status quo |
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Disadvantages |
· Customer dissatisfaction · Increased administration to deal with payment
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· No control over supply of bins and boxes which then impacts on overall waste budget. · Doesn’t encourage recycling |
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Risks |
This option could lead to increased incidences of fly tipping. |
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Councillor Barry proposed, seconded by Councillor Blamire:-
“That Cabinet does not approve the introduction of charges to householders for the delivery of wheeled bins and recycling boxes as part of the 2011/12 budget but gives consideration to the possibility of introducing such charges as part of the 2012/13 budget proposals.”
Councillors then voted:-
Resolved:
(7 Members (Councillors Ashworth, Barry, Blamire, Kerr, Langhorn, Robinson and Whitelegg) voted in favour, and 1 Member (Councillor Bryning) abstained.)
(1) That Cabinet does not approve the introduction of charges to householders for the delivery of wheeled bins and recycling boxes as part of the 2011/12 budget but gives consideration to the possibility of introducing such charges as part of the 2012/13 budget proposals.
Officers responsible for effecting the decision:
Head of Environmental Services.
Reasons for making the decision:
The Council has a statutory duty to collect household waste. The anticipated £56K savings which the introduction of charging for replacement bins and boxes would provide was not considered essential to this year’s budget proposals but could be considered as part of next year’s proposals if necessary.