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WHEREAS, the circumstances present when these contractual arrangements were entered into several decades ago have materially changed; and WHEREAS, because Suffolk pays no tipping fees, each of the Full Tipping Fee Members, including Portsmouth, must pay apro rata share ofSPSA's operating expenses that would be paid by Suffolk but for the exemption; and WHEREAS, because Virginia Beach's tipping fees are materially reduced, each of the Full Tipping Fee Members, including Portsmouth, must pay apro rata share ofSPSA's operating expenses that are attributable to Virginia Beach; and WHEREAS, the combined subsidies of the six Full Tipping Fee Members to Virginia Beach and Suffolk are now in the vicinity of $40,000,000 per year; and WHEREAS, the effective exemption of Virginia Beach and Suffolk from paying their actual costs of waste disposal by SPSA is the single largest contributing cause to SPSA's present fiscal crisis, and it is also the single largest contributing cause of the SPSA debt crisis by which SPSA is approximately $240,000,000 in debt with only nine years to amortize that debt; and WHEREAS, if Virginia Beach and Suffolk were to pay tipping fees or rates equal to those charged to other SPSA members, then SPSA's debt could be entirely retired in approximately six years without increasing tipping fees; and WHEREAS, the net effect ofthe Virginia Beach and Suffolk contractual arrangements IS that the citizens of Portsmouth, which has a population of approximately 100,000 and a median household income of $44,374, are subsidizing the municipal solid waste costs of both Virginia Beach, which has a population of approximately 435,000 and a median household income of $61,462, and Suffolk, which has a population of approximately 81,000 and a median household income of$59,417; and