- Date
- 2011-04-01
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- governancecommunityinfrastructure
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Beginning April 1, 2011, consumer-type waste bags on Beaver Island were to be charged at a uniform rate of three dollars per bag. The March Beacon says the change was intended to remove staff judgments about perceived bag size.
Evidence limits
This is the newspaper’s announcement of the rule change, not the committee’s adopted fee schedule or a later implementation record.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, March 2011, "Black Bags."Reports that the Waste Management Committee changed the rules to charge a flat $3.00 per consumer-type waste bag, effective April 1, 2011, instead of determining the fee by perceived bag size. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the announced fee change.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-03_Beaver-Beacon
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island adopts a flat three-dollar consumer waste-bag charge”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-black-bag-waste-rate-change-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 2011, "Black Bags." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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