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City committee backs up to $2.29 million DEEP grant for curbside food‑scrap program; port camera award small
Summary
The City Services & Environmental Policy Committee recommended that the Board of Alders authorize the mayor to apply for and accept up to $2,289,980 in state grant funding to start curbside food‑scrap collection. The committee also reported a much smaller award for port camera maintenance and advanced a transportation transformation resolution.
The City Services & Environmental Policy Committee told the Board of Alders it would favorably recommend that the city apply for and accept up to $2,289,980 from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to implement a curbside food‑scrap diversion program.
Committee members described a program in which residents would place food scraps in a distinct, colored bag that would be collected with regular household trash and sorted at the transfer station for processing into biogas and soil amendments. The committee said wide adoption could…
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