The Sanitation Fund is responsible for collecting all solid waste in the City and for collecting, processing, and selling recyclable materials. A downturn in the recyclables market has seen a decrease in the revenues from the sale of recyclables. For several years the Sanitation Fund balance continued dropping as a result of the personnel costs associated with recycling employees without an equal or greater amount of revenue collected from recycling materials. Likewise, the costs to collect and dispose of solid waste increased each year without an equivalent fee increase. In 2018 a fee increase was adopted to cover these increasing costs. Since that time the fund balance has been recovering with positive net revenue over expense each year. However, the fund has not fully recovered. The sanitation assets are made up of vehicles, equipment, and amounts due on customer accounts less a negative cash balance. Fiscal Year 23 may end with a slight positive cash balance. The Sanitation Fund is budgeted for nine employees:

• 4 Full-time Sanitation Drivers

• 5 Recycle Coordinators, 3 Full-time/2 Part-time