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Brooksville council allocates $30,000 to pilot standardized garbage bins and lifting-assist equipment
Summary
Council allocated $30,000 from the sanitation enterprise fund to begin providing standardized 96-gallon curbside bins and installing bin-assist equipment on trucks, starting with a pilot area; staff will return with mockups, pricing and roll-out details.
The Brooksville City Council gave consensus to allocate $30,000 from the sanitation enterprise fund to begin a standardized garbage-bin program and purchase lifting-assist equipment for collection trucks.
Public works staff proposed issuing a standard, heavy-duty 96-gallon residential cart and fitting collection trucks with a rear bin-assist mechanism. Staff said the estimated purchase price is about $51 per bin; the council and staff said the city would provide one bin per household at no charge and that replacement or additional bins would be handled by policy…
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