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Columbia City to rebalance solid-waste routes; about 10,000 customers to get new service days
Summary
City staff presented a route-balance plan to reduce overtime, improve safety and accommodate growth; staff proposes targeted notifications and a Nov. 10 start for new routes affecting roughly 10,000 of the city's 43,000 customers.
Samantha Yeager, the city's solid waste superintendent, told the City Council that the Solid Waste Division plans to rebalance collection routes to improve safety, reduce unbudgeted overtime and make room for ongoing residential growth. "We are proposing these routes start on November 10," Yeager said, describing a communications plan that includes two mailed letters, a kitchen-magnet schedule and a postcard 15 days before the change.
The change would affect a subset of the city's customers: Yeager said the division services about 43,000 customers and will change schedules for a little over 10,000 of them — roughly 6,500 customers will change garbage day and about 4,000 will change recycling week. She said the division has been…
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