{"id":787736,"date":"2026-05-11T01:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787736\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:31:17","slug":"city-council-will-consider-settlement-in-trash-fee-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787736\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council will consider settlement in trash fee case"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Diego City Council will consider a settlement in the lawsuit challenging the city\u2019s trash fee during a closed session<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to the San Diego Union-Tribune, attorney Gabriel McWhirter, who is representing the city against a group of local homeowners, told Judge Euketa Oliver during a hearing on Friday that a proposed settlement is \u201ccurrently on the table\u201d regarding Measure B,<\/a> which instituted a pickup fee for single-family households after being passed in November 2022.<\/p>\n

The proposed settlement comes around a month after Oliver denied<\/a> the city\u2019s request to dismiss the suit, which argued that the fee violated Proposition 218, the state ballot measure stipulating that the cost of utility fees cannot exceed that of providing the intended services.<\/p>\n

In her ruling, Oliver cited the city\u2019s estimate that the fee would increase despite a discrepancy in the amount of households whose service would be affected. The city had originally said homeowners would pay between $23 and $29 a month. That cost was later revised to be around $43 a month in 2026, and an estimated $55 a month in 2027, though some households may qualify<\/a> for financial assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe apparent inconsistency between declining service demand and increasing costs, coupled with unsupported assumptions and, at this point, unexplained deficiencies in the city\u2019s analysis, creates triable issues of material fact as to whether the fee exceeds the \u2018actual cost\u2019 of providing the service,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n

The council\u2019s closed session will come a day before opening statements were scheduled in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The fee had come under criticism from former Mayor Kevin Faulconer, who has spearheaded<\/a> a push to repeal it in his current role as CEO of the conservative Lincoln Club. <\/p>\n

McWhirter did not return a call requesting comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego City Council will consider a settlement in the lawsuit challenging the city\u2019s trash fee during…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5310,3549,7264,47524,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-787736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-city-council","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-trash-fee","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116553363513402902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}