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Multi- family Services Fee = $14 /improved property unit with multi - family services available at each apartment dwelling unit, occupied or not. Mobile home parks are proposed to be billed for each mobile home occupying a lot, not for unoccupied lots as declared by the park owner in the required annual statement to Orange County. Each improved property unit will receive the $36 (B) fee. Those improved property units within one of the other three service areas will also receive a second fee that is additive to the. (B) fee._ Note: Due to .a projected surplus of tipping fee revenue over landfill operating expenses for the next five years, staff believes it possible to maintain the above fee structure for five years without adjustment. In FY 2009110 the tipping fee revenue surpluses will no longer be available and significant fee increases will be likely. Statement of Assumptions The following is a compilation of fundamental assumptions related to the 10 -Year financial analysis of the solid waste enterprise fund and calculations of anticipated revenue shortfall. The assumptions are organized in the following categories: General Revenues Expenditures Reserves Programs /Services Fee Customer Classes Fee Calculations GENERAL AS SUMPTIONS • Supplemental financing is essential for FY 2004/05 in order to continue existing services /programs. • 10 -Year Plan Financial Analysis corresponds to 10 -Year Solid Waste Management Plan submitted to State, with year 1 being 2003/04. • Fee will be transmitted on the annual property tax bill, listed separately as a Waste Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling Fee. • The Waste Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling Fee (WRRRF) will be adopted in conjunction with the FY 2004/05 budget process and included on the 2004 tax bills mailed in July /August 2004. • County Public Works Sanitation Division operations /estimates of revenue or expenditures are not included in the WRRRF model. • A WRRRF appeal process will be established as part of a schedule of values to efficiently address citizen billing questions /problems. • For reference, the average property tax bill for a Chapel Hill resident is $4,336.50. The proposed $75 fee (B plus U) represents 1.7 percent of that average tax bill. The :1 6