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Skagway panel approves wildlife‑safety outreach mailer, recycling guide and residential can stickers; sets March 30 timeline
Summary
The Solid Waste Advisory Committee approved a business outreach letter with changes, directed distribution to the city email list and posters around town, added a recycling quick guide to the mailer, and authorized residential garbage‑can stickers (pending manager approval). The committee set a deadline to complete the outreach by March 30.
The Solid Waste Advisory Committee voted March 5 to finalize a wildlife‑safety and solid‑waste outreach package that will be mailed to businesses, emailed to the city list and posted around town. The committee approved adding a recycling quick guide to the mailing and authorized printing residential garbage‑can stickers pending manager approval.
Committee members discussed wording to avoid confusing residents about bear‑attractant rules. The group reviewed a municipal public notice and a municipal code entry that defines a bear attraction nuisance and prohibits placing trash outside before 4 a.m. or after 8 a.m. on collection day. Members agreed to simplify the outreach language to “Secure all garbage” and to note the relevant code citation, while retaining a short explanation of exceptions in the municipal definition.
The committee approved the outreach letter with the following distribution plan: the letter will be mailed directly to business owners, emailed to the city’s public mailing list, and posters will be posted in public locations. The committee amended the motion to require the materials be completed by March 30 so the email and posters could be in place before the April Clean Sweep event. Members also voted to add the recycling quick guide to the outreach materials and to post the guide on the committee’s web page.
Separately, the committee approved moving forward with bright orange residential garbage‑can stickers. Members favored an orange background with black type and proposed a 5x7 (inches) scale that would be highly visible on cans; they also discussed whether stickers should be preprinted with collection days or supplied blank. Committee members asked staff to check legal and ownership questions with the city manager about placing stickers on privately owned cans. All procedural motions on the outreach letter, the recycling quick guide and the sticker printing passed by voice vote with no roll‑call recorded.
