LIHU‘E — County officials are reminding property owners that the deadline to make changes to their Residential Refuse Collection Assessment is May 16. Changes must be made by completing the RRCA change form mailed last month. Ordinance 905 authorizing the
LIHU‘E — County officials are reminding property owners that the deadline to make changes to their Residential Refuse Collection Assessment is May 16.
Changes must be made by completing the RRCA change form mailed last month.
Ordinance 905 authorizing the implementation of the RRCA was signed into law in September.
Under the new law, all Kaua‘i properties eligible for refuse collection services provided by the Department of Public Works shall receive an assessment with their real property taxes.
The RRCA will appear as a separate line item on real property assessments, and will be due semi-annually at the same time as real property taxes are due.
The RRCA payment schedule per benefited property — an individual dwelling unit within a serviceable area for county refuse collection — is as follows:
• Mandatory base assessment of $6 per month, which will be used to defray operating expenses at the refuse transfer stations. The base assessment will be charged whether or not the property is occupied.
• An additional $6 assessment a month for curbside refuse collection with manual service of up to three 32-gallon receptacles or automated service of one 96-gallon receptacle.
• An additional $12 assessment per month for increased curbside refuse collection service for those properties that require additional collections of up to three 32-gallon receptacles with manual service or one 96-gallon receptacle with automated service.
Call the Solid Waste Division at 241-4091 for more information, or go to www.kauai.gov/RRCA to download the ordinance or a change form.
