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Monday, September 9, 2019

Sanitation fee for short term rentals


Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah.  September 5, 2019.  There has been a lot more garbage generated in Rich County since the growth of short term rentals according to both the County Treasurer and the Sanitation Supervisor. 

Lou Jean Argyle, Treasurer, and  Lynn Weston, Sanitation Supervisor, asked Commissioners to clarify the fees for short term rentals.  Currently, rentals with an occupancy of less than eight people pay the same rate as a private home.  That rate is $70 twice a year.  It will cost $105 twice a year for two cans and then if they need more cans it will cost more.  In July there is an extra charge of $9 per person.  Currently if the rentals do not want the cans year round, the county will pick them up at the end of the summer for no charge.

Weston said that some people, in an effort avoid paying for extra cans, are dumping their cans into dumpsters around Garden City which costs the dumpster owners more as they pay for each dump.  Weston said that they are now running seven days a week and make at least two runs a day in the summer.

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