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Cumberland delays decision on truck-mounted trash cameras, will monitor bag revenue and roll out new cans
Summary
Town staff described a proposed truck-mounted camera system to identify noncompliant trash; councilors agreed to defer a purchase decision and instead monitor bag sales and revenues after new carts are delivered, with a quarterly/three-month review planned.
Town staff discussed a proposal to add truck-mounted cameras to curbside collection trucks and recommended delaying a purchase while the town monitors bag-sales revenue once new carts are delivered.
Chris, a staff member, told the council the camera system would cost about $35,000 and could be amortized over the remaining four years of the town’s current contract “which comes to around $8,700 a year.” He said the camera takes a photo at each stop and the vendor’s software flags images that do not match the town’s green bag standard and then emails daily potential violations with the address.
The town would have to assign staff to review flagged images and then adopt an ordinance or enforcement policy to act on any violations. “The town will now have to provide staff to review this, and then we would need to come up with an ordinance or policies of how we…
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