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Saskatoon Coun. Darren Hill wants a redo of his vote on introducing user fees for trash collection, but it’s important to remember the waste landscape has changed.

Hill signalled last week that he intends to force a vote on rescinding the concept he endorsed nine days earlier to introduce the new way to pay for trash collection.

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With a precarious 6-5 vote to move forward with a utility on Nov. 19, an attempt to overturn that vote could well be successful. The implications from the Dec. 17 vote are huge for taxpayers.

Council also voted to introduce a new mandatory collection program for organic waste that would be paid for by property tax. Hill backed that, too. Actually, he championed it.

Essentially, the property taxes that are now paying for trash collection would have covered the organics program instead. The new fees would cover trash collection starting in 2020.

Without the new fees, the city administration has estimated the property tax increase at 4.7 per cent. That’s not the entire property tax increase — just the increase needed to cover the waste changes.