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(Clintojn) -- Council committee talks about the large item pickup and garbage pickup

The recently completed large item pickup program cost the city of Clinton nearly 40-thousand dollars and that doesn’t include some of the related cost.

Tom Krogman who heads the effort reported to the council’s City Services Committee that it the effort took about a month with 892 man hours and 255 tons of material hauled to the landfill which cost about $11,000landfill fees plus fuel cost. Krogman says the $38,000 cost does not include the $10,000 spent for a contractor to help pickup brush from storm damage during that period.

Krogman said that with the new larger containers for regular solid waste a lot of the items being picked up could be placed in those bins for pickup on a regular basis.

It was also suggested the city look at hiring a contractor for the large item pickup and then city employees could spend more time on street repairs and other related issues.

The committee agreed to at least look at the cost comparison.

The members of the City Services Committee – Charlie Mulholland, Bev Herman and John Rowland – also agreed to look at figures for private garbage hauling service.

Clinton City Administrator Jeffrey Horne said he would compare the figures using a managed competition plan to compare costs on an equal basis. The city currently has about seven thousand customers, but another two thousand use various private haulers.

But he said if the move would be to a private hauler it would have to a monopoly.

The committee indicated a willingness to look at the cost and gave the city administrator approval to gather further information. Part of the discussion was also on single source recycling and that many haulers would prefer that system.

Written 9/27/2012 by Dave Vickers - KROS News

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