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Special Budget Wark Session August 29, 2000 Page 5 the budget is for 17 Solid Waste Collectors and presently it is staffed with 12 full-time regular and two temporary full-time Solid Waste Collectors. It is requested that two temporary full-time Solid Waste Collectors and the three Solid Waste Collectors be deleted from the budget. He said there will be a total of 14 full-time regular Solid Waste Collectors, and there is a requested to increase overtime from $10,000.00 to $15,000.00. City Manager Malone said there is an increase in wearing apparel, gasoline, lubricant, and a decrease in motor vehicle batteries, laundry and cleaning, chemicals, mechanical, and insurance. City Manager Malone advised that there is an increase in the landfill fee from $267,000.00 to $280,000.00 due to the increase in the landfill charges per load along with the expected increase in volume. He said there is a increase in machinery, tools and equipment from $3,000.00 to $4,000.00 and a small increase in radio maintenance. City Manager Malone told the City Council that there is a small increase in lease and rental of equipment. He said there were time payments on equipment that the city is obligated for, and the requested amount is $199,382.00. The Council discussed the possibility of picking up hazardous waste, and the consensus of the City Council was for this to be researched and see what it will cost and what the city will have to do to implement this service, and requested that a report be made to the City Council. The Council discussed sanitation related fees that are billed on the water bills, and the concern expressed by apartment owners and some of the business and commercial customers that the fees are unfair. The City Manager explained that it was envisioned that sanitation related service fees cover, not completely, a number of services to the citizens including the sweeping of the streets, cleaning up of rights-of-way or creeks where people have dumped trash, and the Code Enforcement activities. He said the fee was established as an effort to ensure that all citizens shared in those costs, but noted that when you have sanitation related charges on the water bill, the people look at that with the expectation that you are going to pick up their trash, limbs and brush, even