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FY 2004 -05 Combination of the universal services fee with appropriate levels of recycling availability fees to provide necessary funding in the solid waste fund. These combined availability fees would be applied to pay for the same universal services covered with the 2003 -04 fee and would additionally cover the cost of the various recycling and waste reduction programs provided in each residential sector including urban curbside recycling, multifamily recycling and rural curbside recycling. These funding needs assume the continued use of the MSW tipping fees to provide necessary revenues through the end of 2004 -05 and, as in FY2003- 2004, would apply only to the residential sector. Households that do not have curbside or multifamily type recycling services available (about 50% of unincorporated Orange County) would be billed for only the universal service fee as in FY2003 -04. More precise calculations of the 2004 -05 funding needs will be possible next year, but the figures listed in the table below provide reasonable estimates to within 10% of the actual anticipated fee (barring some major policy shift or unforeseeable incident). Table 1: Estimated solid waste services fees beginning in 2004 -05 (based on financial planning model prepared by Environmental Finance Center at UNC) Year 2004 -05 Single Family Urban Curbside $105 Single Family Rural Curbside $75 Multi - family (per unit) $64 General services, no curbside recycling (10% of rural households beginning2006 -07) $45 (90% of rural households would get curbside by 2006 -07) These fees are anticipated to generate approximately $4,000,000 in 2004 -05. FY 2005 -06 Adopt the comprehensive, prepaid, solid waste services fee and eliminate tipping fees for disposal of Mixed Solid Waste in the lined landfill. Tipping fees for MSW, presently charged to the municipalities and county, would be discontinued. Tipping fees would continue to be levied on construction and demolition waste and on vegetative waste because volumes of these types of materials are not very predictable and the services and revenues needed to manage such materials are tied directly to the amount of materials delivered to the landfill. The comprehensive prepaid fees would therefore cover all universal services, all recycling programs, and all disposal costs not covered by the remaining tipping fee. In 2005 -06, non - residential customers (commercial and tax- exempt) would also begin paying fees to cover the costs of their services.