Vermont § 404 - Revenues and appropriations

§ 404. Revenues and appropriations

• (a) The Board of Supervisors shall establish a fee structure for the purpose of generating
  revenues for the District, which fee structure shall be designed to generate sufficient
  revenue to enable the District to operate and carry out its functions and financial
  obligations, including the timely payment of its long-term indebtedness, bonded indebtedness,
  and anticipated closure costs. The surcharge fee schedule shall be based upon the
  actual tonnage collected and reported by District-registered haulers from each member
  municipality. The fee schedule shall be expressed in dollars per ton or dollars per
  cubic yard, as the Board of Supervisors shall determine to be most appropriate. Fees
  may include the rate of surcharge, tipping fees for recycling, charges for waste services,
  per capita fees, and amount to be assessed against each member municipality of the
  District for all waste generated within the member municipality and managed by the
  District, which assessment shall be billed with such frequency as the Board of Supervisors
  shall determine appropriate. “Per capita” means charges based on the most recent decennial
  census of towns. (b) In the event disposal fees assessed by the District shall at any time generate insufficient
  revenues to enable the District to meet its financial obligations as set forth and
  contained in the District’s adopted budget, the Board of Supervisors shall immediately
  amend its waste disposal fee schedule to the extent necessary to raise the amount
  of revenue projected by the duly adopted budget. (c) In the event the District shall conclude a fiscal year with a surplus in an amount
  in excess of five percent of the amount reflected in the annual budget, the Board
  of Supervisors shall, unless affirmatively determined by a majority of the Board of
  Supervisors that such surplus, or some portion thereof, should be retained by the
  District, refund the surplus to the member municipalities. The amount of any refund
  to the member municipalities shall be the total amount of surplus to be refunded multiplied
  by the fraction, the numerator of which shall be the volume of waste disposed of by
  or from the member municipality during that fiscal year, and the denominator of which
  shall be the volume of waste disposed of by or from all member municipalities during
  that fiscal year. (Amended 2017, No. M-2, § 2.)