TITLE
Title
SOLID WASTE BUDGET AMENDMENT: ADJUST WHITE GOODS DISPOSAL FEE REVENUE - $97,952
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
J. Leslie Bell
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BACKGROUND
Background
Pursuant to NCGS 130A-309.80, the North Carolina White Goods program was created to discourage the illegal disposal of white goods and encourage recycling of refrigerant gases. The state program is funded by a $3.00 disposal tax on the retail sale of all white goods. The NC Department of Revenue (NCDOR) collects the disposal taxes and redistributes these funds to counties, who are required to spend this revenue on a combination of the following expenses directly related to the management of their White Goods programs:
-operating costs;
-capital improvements; and/or
-clean-up of illegal dump sites.
White Goods Disposal Fee funding is distributed to counties on a quarterly basis and payments are issued by NCDOR approximately 45 days after the end of the fiscal quarter. To remain eligible to receive tax distributions counties must submit Annual Financial Information Reports (AFIR) verifying that the unappropriated portion of White Goods disposal fee fund balance is equal to or less than 25% of the total funding the county received, or would have received, during the prior fiscal year. Guilford County annually appropriates these funds towards a combination of operating, capital and illegal dump site clean-up expenses in its White Goods program housed at the Scrap Tire and White Goods Collection Facility located at 2138 Bishop Road, Greensboro, NC. However, as a result of lump sum disposal tax payments made by a few large corporate businesses, Guilford County received the equivalent of an annual White Goods Disposal fee allocation during the first two quarters of FY 2017-18. The distribution breakdown is listed below:
Quarter 1 (FY 2017-18): $57,442
Quarter 2 (FY 2017-18): $178,248
Total: $235,690
Guilford County did not receive White Goods disposal tax distributions during the third...
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