Council directs manager to craft ordinance amendment to remove specific chipping schedule from town code
After staff described high staff hours and equipment limits for the town chipper, council directed the town manager to prepare a proposed ordinance amendment removing specific yard-debris and chipping schedule requirements from the town code so an administrative alternating-area schedule can be established.
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Town staff reported the town’s chipper and crew are carrying a high workload — roughly 48–64 staff hours monthly (about 768 hours per year) — and said the existing monthly schedule strains staff, equipment and other public-works tasks. Staff recommended dividing the town into two service areas served on alternating months to reduce peak burden and proposed drafting an ordinance amendment because the code currently prescribes a monthly schedule.
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