The authority is requesting a 4.1 increase
The Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority is asking the city and county to dig a little deeper.
General Manager Eli Maodus says the authority is requesting a budget increase of 4.1% for 2019.
He says the increase is needed to meet the authority's goal of balancing the books by 2027.
"In 2018 there was a two percent increase and in 2017, there was no increase at all," says Maodus. "So with those low increases in the past, a couple/few years it requires higher increases going forward."
Maodus says the authority understands the proposed increase is higher than some municipalities increases.
"That is something that is greater than local municipalities, Windsor and the seven county municipalities are seeing in their own budgets that's acknowledged but from a dollar prospective for each of those, administration feels that those could be absorbed with the budget," says Maodus.
Maodus will present the 2019 budget to county council this Wednesday.
He will be meeting with city council at a later date.