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Raleigh council leans toward enhancing yard-waste collection; staff to return with costs and options
Summary
Transportation staff outlined challenges with the city's loose-leaf collection program and presented four options including no change, enhancement, privatization and transition to an enhanced yard-waste program; councilors generally favored exploring an enhanced yard-waste model and asked staff for detailed cost and implementation analysis.
Steve Halsey, assistant director for Transportation maintenance, told the City Council the loose-leaf collection program has not seen significant changes since 2011 and that growth in the city has lengthened collection schedules and created resident dissatisfaction.
Halsey said the program currently uses 61 total staff (48 of whom are flexed from other transportation duties) and 23 specialized pieces of equipment; the program runs November through March and averages roughly 64,383 cubic yards collected across the last two seasons. He said continuing the program as currently structured diverts transportation staff from…
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