After getting hit with an 11 percent rate increase last year, Dahl Disposal customers in Yachats are getting break this year – no changes.
Dahl, which has a franchise agreement with the city, has to request rate increases or service changes to the City Council by July each year. It informed the city last week it won’t seek any changes this fiscal year, with standard monthly rates remaining at $32.60 for a 32-gallon garbage can and alternate week pickup of recycling and yard debris.
Dramatic changes to recycling markets and equipment purchases led to most of last year’s increase. That prompted Dahl to cut recycling pickup in Yachats to every other week and add alternate-week pickup of landscape debris. That service is much less used, however.
Despite the news, Adobe Motel and Restaurant general manager Anthony Muirhead asked the council last week to look for other providers when Dahl’s franchise comes up for an automatic one-year extension of its 6-year franchise agreement next year. He said the Adobe’s commercial rates increased 20 percent last year, that he found a cheaper service in Florence but was unable to use them because of Dahl’s franchise.
“Please look at other providers if or when Dahl comes back with a rate increase request,” Muirhead said.
Dahl, which has offices in Waldport, takes Yachats’ garbage to its Toledo transfer station and then hauls it into the Willamette Valley.
Thompson’s Sanitary Service has the franchise in Newport; Central Coast Disposal has the franchise in Florence.
In Waldport, the City Council in May approved a 1.9 percent rate increase, adding 64 cents a month to the average residential bill.
