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Interim DPW commissioner presents FY25 Q3 report; council presses for staffing and budget detail
Summary
Interim Commissioner Keturah Garmon presented Department of Public Works Q3 results, highlighting high curbside completion rates, increased yard-trimming stops, fleet repairs and vehicle purchases, and staffing and budget questions from council members about vacancy funding and fleet overage risk.
Keturah Garmon, interim commissioner for the Department of Public Works, presented the department’s FY2025 third-quarter (January–March) report to the City Utilities Committee, and council members pressed for additional staffing and budget detail.
Garmon told the committee curbside garbage crews recorded about 1,300,000 stops during the quarter; roughly 5% of stops had issues reported, with “not out” (residents not setting carts for collection) the most common exception and about 66,000 instances cited. DPW reported a 99.5% success rate for curbside garbage collection. Recycling crews handled about 1.2 million stops; yard-trimming stops were about 1.4 million with roughly…
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