Making waste a utility could drop property tax hike: report

City council’s governance and priorities committee will consider ideas from city staff on how to reduce a projected 5.77 per cent property tax increase for 2018.
Among them is turning waste collection into a utility, which could save $8.9 million next year and reduce the hike by 4.04 per cent, according to an administration report to be received by the committee at its Monday meeting.
A waste utility would also increase awareness of the full costs of managing waste, reward waste reduction