Unincorporated Residents Owe $4.16M In Unpaid Trash Bills, Riverside County Plans To Collect

RivCo Board Unanimously Voted to Yes to Liens on Unpaid Trash Invoices

The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to impose special assessments totaling $4.16 million on thousands of Riverside County property owners’ tax bills to collect unpaid trash collection debts. In a 5-0 vote without comment, the board signed off on Department of Environmental Health Director Jeff Johnson’s request to apply the liens. According to Johnson’s staff, 6,955 residents in unincorporated communities owe the county’s four was…

Unincorporated Residents Owe $4.16M In Unpaid Trash Bills, Riverside County Plans To Collect

Unincorporated Residents Owe $4.16M In Unpaid Trash Bills, Riverside County Plans To Collect - Murrieta, CA - Nearly 7,000 residents in unincorporated communities owe the county's four waste haulers for rubbish pickup and disposal services in 2024.

Accountants dive deep into county’s garbage bill issues

Accountants dive deep into county’s garbage bill issues MattWilliamson Tue, 07/01/2025 - 04:05 PM Accountants hired to pinpoint problems with Pike County’s ability to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid garbage bills said they found glitches in the system, but an in-house collection agent said she’s making progress and the county has what it needs to fix things. Read more about Accountants dive deep into county’s garbage bill iss…

U-T Editorial Board: ‘History doesn’t support city’s confidence in its trash-fee collection plan’

By the SD Union-Tribune Editorial Board / June 27, 2025 As expected, the San Diego City Council on Tuesday [June 24] approved a plan to begin collecting its new monthly fee for trash collection — with a base rate of $43.60 a month — from 226,000-plus single-family homes in lump sums twice a year via property taxes. Approved on a 7-2 vote, it was billed as a cost-saving measure that would avoid $18 million in start-up costs and $10 million in ann…