Published Delcambre minutes put garbage rate at $23 starting with November bills

Published minutes from Delcambre's October 12 meeting say the town's garbage pickup rate will increase by $3, from $20 to $23, beginning with the November billing cycle. The record attributes the discussion to Waste Connections cost increases tied to high fuel prices.

The change described in the minutes is a 15% increase. If one pickup charge appears on each monthly bill, the $3 change would add $36 across 12 bills. That annual figure is a calculation from the two rates in the record, not a separate town estimate.

The item appears under “discussion and possible action.” The published minutes list a motion and second and say the rate “will go into effect,” but they do not print a vote tally or explicitly state that the motion carried. This report therefore describes what the published minutes say the rate will do; it does not treat the record as a separately verified ordinance or tariff.

The minutes do not give the underlying Waste Connections invoice, quantify the fuel-cost change, or describe exemptions, container sizes or service tiers. Those limits matter for comparing the stated reason with the household charge.