Trash fee bills being mailed to county residents

PRESCOTT – Nevada County residents will soon be getting a new bill in their mail.

The county is mailing out bills for trash collection to all those who get homestead credit for their houses. This will not affect residents in the cities of Emmet and Prescott as these communities provide garbage pickup for their residents already.

The new trash collection fee is $100 a year or $8.33 a month. This year only 11 bills will be sent out requesting residents pay $91.63. Residents can pay monthly installments the entire bill at one time, but the bills must be paid by the end of the month, or at least quarterly. Anyone who doesn’t pay their trash bill after three months will have a hold placed on their personal property tax and they won’t be able to get tags for their vehicle(s) until the bill is paid. Ricky Reyenga, who’s overseeing this through the Nevada County Collector’s Office, said everyone needs to come by the collector’s office and sign up. He will be running the trash collection routs with county employees and making a rout sheet to show where all houses are where trash is being picked up.

For properties with multiple homes having garbage picked up, he said, every home on the property is required to sign up and pay the fee. These fees must be paid at the collector’s office and cannot be paid with personal property tax.

Reyenga pointed out those who aren’t willing to pay the fee or claim they have no personal property will still have to pay as the county has other legal avenues to collect the fee and will use them.