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Council discusses shifting to biweekly trash pickup and passing costs to residents
Summary
Council members discussed a proposed change to residential trash service—from weekly to every-other-week pickup—to lower costs and a recommendation to begin passing the recurring cost to residents in the next fiscal year; council members also confirmed the contract length is three years. No formal action was recorded during the work session.
A committee member described a proposed change to the city—trash contract that would move residential pickup from weekly to every-other-week service as a way to reduce costs. "It's gonna move from a every week pick up at every address to every other week pick up," the committee member said, framing the change as a cost-saving measure.
The committee member said the city had been covering bulk-trash pickup and that the city previously absorbed some costs when service changed. They recommended that the city begin passing the ongoing cost for regular service to residents starting in the next fiscal year in October: "My recommendation is we pass this cost on to the citizens that start in the fiscal year."
Another speaker referenced a figure of $18,000 during discussion but did not specify what that total represented; the transcript records the comment "However, we're looking at $18,000." A council member asked about contract length and was told the contract is three years. The chair thanked participants and the group moved on; no vote or final decision on changing pickup frequency or passing costs to residents was recorded in the work session.
The work session also briefly listed alcohol licenses on the agenda, but that item was not discussed in any substantive detail during the session.
