The City Council will hold off for a few more weeks before telling city nonprofit agencies whether they have to pay to haul their garbage to the dump.
“It’s costing us money,” Councilwoman Pam Ladd said Tuesday night during the City Council meeting.
The council will take up the matter again next week during one of its committee meetings, officials said.
The council voted 6-0 Tuesday to defer passing four resolutions related to nonprofit agencies that own thrift stores and haul their unused materials to the city dump.
The council approved an ordinance in March that says nonprofits must start paying tipping fees at the city’s landfill unless they receive a waiver. The ordinance, which took effect July 1, only effects nonprofits that own thrift stores, bring their refuse to the dump and use their own vehicles.