# Jackson Moves to Rewrite Its Solid Waste Disposal Fees, Two Weeks After Passing a Budget > An ordinance introduced on the Sept. 22 council agenda would amend Section 106-148 of the city code, the section that sets what it costs to dump at Jackson's solid waste facility. The same agenda carries a resolution to hire an outside firm to chase unpaid debts. *Business · By Jackson Wire Staff · September 18, 2026* Jackson's City Council will introduce an ordinance on Sept. 22 that amends the solid waste facility disposal fees, Section 106-148 of the Code of Ordinances. The item sits at number 10 on the agenda, under Introduction of Ordinances, sponsored by Public Works Director Lorenzo Anderson and Mayor John Horhn, according to the meeting packet posted at jacksonms.gov. The agenda does not state the new rates or the old ones. That is the point of watching the introduction: the ordinance text is where the number lives, and it has not been published with the packet. What the packet does establish is that the city is reopening the fee schedule it charges at the disposal facility, a revenue line that sits outside the general property tax levy. The timing is notable. The council adopted the fiscal year 2026-2027 municipal budget at a special meeting on Sept. 8, a session that was recessed and reconvened on Sept. 9 and again on Sept. 11 before the budget resolution was taken up, according to the meeting notices posted on the city's agenda page. The ad valorem levy resolutions for the city and for the Jackson Municipal Separate School District were handled separately at a Sept. 3 special meeting. So the fee change arrives after the budget, not inside it. A disposal fee is a user charge, not a millage rate. It falls on haulers and on anyone who tips at the facility, and it can be adjusted by ordinance without reopening the budget the council just closed. That is a materially different political act than a tax increase, and it is the kind of line item that rarely draws a crowd. The same Sept. 22 agenda carries a second money item that has drawn no attention. Item 23 is a resolution supporting an agreement between the city and Municipal Intercept Company, LLC for the collection of unpaid debts under the Local Government Debt Collection Setoff Act, sponsored by Ward 4 councilman Brian Grizzell. The setoff statute lets a local government intercept state payments, including tax refunds, to satisfy debts owed to the city. Read together, the two items describe a city working the revenue side of its ledger from both directions: raising what it charges at the gate, and hiring a contractor to go after what it is already owed. Neither item names a dollar figure in the packet. Both would take effect only after a vote, and the debt-collection resolution is on the regular agenda, meaning it can be adopted the same night it is introduced. There is a third transaction on the agenda worth naming. Item 20 would declare parcels 70-79, 110-24, and 110-25 surplus, accept the bids of Wil-Mat Investments, LLC, and authorize conveyance by quitclaim deed to that company, sponsored by Planning and Development Director Angela Brown. A quitclaim deed transfers whatever interest the city holds and carries no warranty, which is standard for tax-forfeited and surplus municipal land. The agenda also shows the city paying Entergy Mississippi, LLC to raise an electric power line that conflicts with a mast arm being erected under the Traffic Signal Group B improvements project, and amending a prior order that accepted Hemphill Construction Company's bid for the Shaw Road Bridge rehabilitation to correct the award amount. Both are corrections and accommodations on projects already underway, not new spending programs. For readers trying to size the disposal fee change, the useful comparison is not the millage rate. It is the tonnage. A fee per ton multiplied by the volume tipped at the facility produces the revenue, and the city has not published either number in this packet. The ordinance, once filed, will contain the rate schedule. The volume is a separate question that Public Works can answer. The council's own calendar gives the ordinance a defined path. An introduction on Sept. 22 does not enact anything. Under the city's regular order of business, an introduced ordinance is taken up for adoption at a subsequent regular meeting, which puts the vote in early October unless the item is pulled or amended. Council President Vernon Hartley controls the agenda; Anderson and Horhn carry the sponsorship. What's next: The council meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Council Chambers, with a zoning meeting at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21. Watch for the filed text of the Section 106-148 ordinance, which will show the new disposal rates, and for the vote on the Municipal Intercept Company resolution, which can pass the same night. The adoption vote on the fee ordinance should follow at the next regular meeting in October. Anyone who wants the tonnage figure behind the fee should ask the Department of Public Works directly, because it is not in the packet. --- [The Jackson Wire](https://www.thejacksonwire.com/) · [Read on the web](https://www.thejacksonwire.com/article/jackson-solid-waste-disposal-fee-ordinance-september-22)