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Staff member outlines options to reshape Two Rivers leaf-collection program amid labor and budget strains
Summary
City staff described rising labor constraints, equipment repairs and program costs and presented options including a shorter collection window, bagging requirements for property owners, outsourcing, or targeted capital purchases; no formal action was taken.
A staff member told a public meeting that the city’s leaf-collection program faces staffing shortages, equipment maintenance costs and budget pressure and outlined several options to reduce service or change how the program runs.
S1, identified in the transcript as a staff member, said the city currently allocates roughly 1,000 man-hours per year to leaf collection and that the program’s costs are distributed across funds. “We would need something like 19,500 bags, ranging the cost from roughly 50 cents to $1.50 a bag,” the staff member said when discussing a bagging requirement as one option. The staff member also cited past repair bills and annual maintenance figures, noting “we spent almost $18,000 in repair cost” for a recent period and that multi-year averages for equipment inspection and materials were on the order of thousands of dollars a year.
Why it matters: changes to the leaf-collection schedule…
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