Be on the lookout (BOLO) Home Trash Pick-up Fee Protest Cards to be Mailed to Affected Households the week of April 21.
From the San Diego Union Tribune: On split vote [April 14, 2025], San Diego council advances nearly $48-a-month home trash pickup fee. But council members expressed reservations and criticized the independent budget analyst’s much lower initial estimate of the cost.
Monday’s vote officially launches the protest period for the proposed fees. Under state law, the new fees can’t be imposed if more than half of the estimated 233,000 households that would pay the new fee submit protest cards before the June 9 hearing. City officials say they will mail out protest cards to each household during the week beginning April 21.
- Proposed Solid Waste Management Fee and Proposition 218 Public Hearing Notice (Protest Card) : https://www.sandiego.gov/environmental-services/trash-service-updates/proposed-solid-waste-management-fee
- It’s UCCA’s understanding that the property owner will receive the notification and the property owner must include Assessor’s Parcel Number or Address of the property if they choose to complete and return the protest notice.
- See also the City Council agenda and reports from April 14, Item 201: Authorization to Set a Public Hearing Date Pursuant to Proposition 218 to Consider Adoption of a New Solid Waste Management Fee, Adopt Procedures for Submitting and Tabulating Protests Against the Proposed Fee, and Set Hearing Date to Consider Report of Proposed Fees to be Collected on the Tax Roll for the Forthcoming Fiscal Year, if Solid Waste Management Fee is Adopted. The agenda and related materials are available at: https://sandiego.hylandcloud.com/211agendaonlinecouncil/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=6471&doctype=1&site=council
From the SDUT April 18:
Time for bullied San Diegans to fight back, only starting with trash fee
From the SDUT April 14:
On split vote, San Diego council advances nearly $48-a-month home trash pickup fee
