Fiscal Note
Minor additional costs, primarily for motor fuels, are anticipated. The Streets Division intends to absorb these costs within the existing operating budget. No appropriation is necessary.
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Amending Secs. 10.18(7)(e) and 10.18(7)(e)1., creating Sec. 10.18(13) and renumbering current Secs. 10.18(13) and (14) to Secs. 10.18(14) and (15), respectively, of the Madison General Ordinances to require that televisions, computer monitors, CPUs, and laptop or desktop computers be separated from other waste items and bear a fee sticker issued by the Street Superintendent prior to disposal at authorized disposal sites.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance requires that televisions, computer monitors, and laptop and desktop computers be separated from other solid waste or recyclables, and bear a fee sticker issued by the Street Superintendent prior to disposal at authorized disposal sites. It also allows the Street Superintendent to remove such electronics that are left on the curbside or terrace, charging the property owner for the disposal on the tax bill as a special assessment.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Introductory paragraph of Subdivision (e) entitled "Recyclable Waste" of Subsection (7) entitled "Separation of Solid Waste Required" of Section 10.18 entitled "Collection of Refuse and Recycling of Waste" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"(e) Recyclable Waste. Every person disposing of newsprint, yard waste, office paper, directories, waste oil, magazines, tires, lead-acid batteries, appliances, televisions, computer monitors, laptop or desktop computers, CPUs, barrels and drum containers, corrugated cardboard, ferrous metal cans and containers, aluminum cans, glass bottles and jars, and HDPE and PETE plastic containers in the City of Madison shall separate such items from all other solid waste materials, shall recycle such separated items as provided herein and shall not place such separated items in containers for disposal with other refuse or garbage."
2. Paragraph 1. of Subdivision (e) entitled "Recyclable Waste" of Subsection (7) entitled "Separation of Solid Waste Required" of Section 10.18 entitled "Collection of Refuse and Recycling of Waste" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"1. For persons served by regular City refuse collection, except for waste oil, lead acid batteries, televisions, computer monitors, laptop or desktop computers, CPUs, barrels and drum containers, the above-listed recyclable items shall be separated and placed at the curb in accordance with the rules, procedures and schedules specified by the Street Superintendent, or such recyclable items may be disposed of by such persons in any other lawful manner. No person shall mix or permit the mixing of said recyclables with garbage or other solid waste in violation of such City rules, procedures or schedules."
3. New Subsection (13) entitled "Electronics" of Section 10.18 entitled "Collection of Refuse and Recycling of Waste" of the Madison General Ordinances is created to read as follows:
"(13) Electronics.
(a) No televisions, computer monitors, laptop or desktop computers, or CPUs may be placed or kept on any terrace or curbside for collection by the City. Every owner shall be responsible for maintaining all her/his property in accordance with this subsection. Televisions, computer monitors, laptop or desktop computers, or CPUs must be disposed of at an authorized recycling deposit site or in any other lawful manner. No person shall deposit such recyclables at any authorized recycling center or deposit site while the site is closed. No televisions, computer monitors, laptop or desktop computers, or CPUs shall be deposited at an authorized public recycling site unless the item bears a fee sticker issued by the Street Superintendent. Fees for such stickers shall be set by the Street Superintendent.
(b) The Street Superintendent shall cause all televisions, computer monitors, laptop or desktop computers, or CPUs which have been placed at curbside or on the terrace to be removed and disposed of properly. The Street Superintendent shall keep an accurate account of the expenses thereof and report the same to the Finance Director, who shall annually prepare a statement of the expenses so incurred in front of or on each lot or parcel of land and report the same to the City Clerk, and the amount therein charged to each lot or parcel of land shall be entered by said Clerk in the tax roll as a special charge against said lot or parcel of land, and the same shall be collected in all respects like other special charges upon real estate under Wis. Stat. ยง 66.0627."
4. Current Subsections (13) and (14) of Section 10.18 entitled "Collection of Refuse and Recycling of Waste" of the Madison General Ordinances are renumbered to Subsections (14) and (15), respectively.