Residents of townhouses say they can't afford proposed price hikes - that could increase trash hauling fees to more than $37,000 a month.
Seniors and residents of the Villa Espana complex say they don't know how they will afford a planned increase in monthly collection feesResidents of a 61-unit townhouse complex in Encino say they're outraged that the bill for collecting the property's trash and recycling may increase -- to more than $37,000 a month -- because of newly assessed add-on fees imposed by the area's City-designated trash hauler, Waste Management.
The RecycLA program only allows the use of the City-designated trash company, so residents at Villa Espana say they're unable to find an alternative waste hauler that might charge less.The City of LA's"RecycLA" program caps the trash and recycling fees that private waste hauling companies are allowed to charge, but also allows add-on fees for opening electric gates and the distance between the street and the bins that need to be collected.
"Our fees would be going up from approximately $5,300 a month to $37,000 a month," and Ross said about $24,000 of the new charges are made up of those distance fees. In email statements to the I-Team, Waste Management initially denied it quoted an amount topping $30,000, and said it had proposed an alternative service agreement for much less money.
Villa Espana residents explained that proposal, which would cost $6,457.84 each month, would no longer include trash and recycling collection inside the complex, meaning residents would have to pull their bins, more than 100 of them, outside the complex gates and on to the surrounding streets, which are jammed daily with parked cars.
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