ORD 058 ORDINANCE NO. 58
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LA QUINTA,
CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING THE RATE FOR INDIVIDUAL
RESIDENTIAL REFUSE PICKUP AND DISPOSAL SERVICE,
AND ELECTING TO HAVE CHARGES PAYABLE FOR SUCH
SERVICES FOR THE YEAR OF 1985 AND SUBSEQUENT
YEARS, COLLECTED ON THE TAX ROLL PURSUANT TO
SECTION 5473 OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE.
The city council of the City of La Quinta does ordain as
follows:
SECTION. 1 This Ordinance is enacted pursuant to authorization
contained in Sections 5471 and 5473 of the Health and Safety Code of
the State of California.
SECTION 2. The rate and charge for City-furnished garbage
and refuse collection and disposal services for individual residences
(curb service, once per week pickup of any combination of 6 cans,
bags or bundles) is hereby established, prescribed and fixed at
six dollars ($6.00) per month plus .35¢ per month dump fee surcharge:
provided that such basic rate shall be decreased fifty cents
(.50¢) per month for each residential account which is collected
on the tax roll on a non-delinquent basis; and further provided
that there may be added, at the option of the City, an appropriate
amount to each account to reimburse the city for its costs and
expenses related to causing such account to be collected on the
tax roll. The basic rate and charge as prescribed in this Section
shall be subject to future modification by ordinance or resolution
of the City Council.
SECTION 3. The City of La Quinta hereby elects to have charges,
commencing with those for January, 1985 and for all subsequent
months until such election is appropriately changed, established
for City-furnished garbage and refuse collection and disposal services
for individual residences, collected on the tax roll in the same
manner, by the same persons, and at the same time as, together
with and not separately from, the general taxes.
SECTION 4. URGENCY ORDINANCE EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance
is an urgency ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health, and safety of the City of La Quinta and it shall take
effect immediately upon approval by a four-fifths vote of the
City Council and signature by the Mayor and attestation by the City
Clerk. It shall continue in full force and effect until repealed
by ordinance of the City Council. The facts constituting the
urgency are as follows: The City Council was first advised by
the City's waste disposal contractor, SCI Services Inc., at it's
regular meeting of June 19, 1984, that, if residential accounts
are collected on the tax roll commencing January 1, 1985, the
municipal customers thereof would receive an 8% reduction in refuse
rate for residential services, reducing the present rate from
$6.35 per month to $5.85 per month; that in order to adopt said
rate and effect said savings, the City must conduct a hearing,
and adopt a resolution approving the City Manager's report prescribing
the charges for each residential parcel within the City and
directing that said charges be collected on the tax roll; that
said resolution and report, to be effective for collection on the
1984-85 tax rolls must be filed with the county auditor on or
before August 10, 1984; that prior to the adoption of said resolution
and report, Sections 5471 and 5473 of the California Health and
Safety Code require the adoption of an ordinance electing to have
such charges for the forthcoming year and for subsequent years
collected on the tax roll.
SECTION 5. POSTING. The city clerk shall within 15 days
after the passage of this ordinance, cause it to be posted in at
least the 3 public places designated by resolution of the City
Council; shall certify to the adoption and posting of this ordinance;
and shall cause this ordinance and its certification, together with
proof of pos~i~g,~to'~entered in~he'!boOk .~f iOrdinanc. es.o~.~thiS!Ci~'
APPROVED and ADOPTED this 3rd day of July, 1984.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss
CITY OF LA QUINTA )
I, FRANK M. USHER, City Clerk of the City of La Quinta, do
hereby certify the foregoing to be a full, true and correct
copy of Ordinance No. 58 which was adopted at a
regular meeting held on the 3rd day of July
1984, not being less than five days following date of
introduction. I further certify that the foregoing
ordinance was posted in three (3) places within the City of
La Quinta.
city of La Quinta, California