The village finds as follows:
A. It is necessary for and in the best interests of the village to regulate and control the collection, transportation and disposal of municipal waste in the exercise of its police power in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of its residents; and
B. The village is authorized pursuant to 65 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-19-1 of the Illinois municipal code, and section 3.2 of the intergovernmental cooperation act, 5 Illinois Compiled Statutes 220/3.2, to provide for the method or methods of collection, transportation and disposal of municipal waste within its corporate limits and to provide that the method chosen may be the exclusive method to be used within its corporate limits; and
C. The village acting pursuant to article VII, section 10 of the Illinois constitution and 5 Illinois Compiled Statutes 220/3.2 of the intergovernmental cooperation act has entered into an intergovernmental agreement with a number of other north and northwest suburban Cook County municipalities, thereby creating the agency to provide an efficient and environmentally sound municipal waste disposal system; and
D. The village has entered into a project use agreement by which the agency has or will acquire, construct, operate, equip and improve a municipal solid waste project to provide for the disposal of system waste of the village and other members of the agency; and
E. Under the project use agreement, the village is obligated to establish a municipal waste disposal system, to cause system waste collected within its corporate limits to be delivered to the agency and to make certain payments to the agency, all as described in the project use agreement; and
F. It is necessary and in the best interests of the village to provide for the environmentally sound and efficient collection, transportation and disposal of system waste by creating a municipal waste system, by providing for the disposal of system waste by delivery to the agency and to impose the rates and charges provided for herein; and
G. It is necessary and in the best interests of the village to regulate and license the hauling and collection of nonsystem waste within the village. (Ord. 06-829, 7-11-2006, eff. 10-1-2006)