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9.) Most citizens already own trash containers because stray animals like to destroy plastic bags. 10.) Current weight limit still needs to be enforced to prevent injury to any employee as well as home owner. ll.) Gives citizens additional outlets to make Paris an overall cleaner community. 12.) Citizens will have an option of bags or reasonably-sized open containers to promote property cleanliness. Cons • 1.) When employees pour leaves on top of other existing bags in truck hopper, leaves will blow out during travel and during packing operations. 2.) Loose leaves in container create hazards, e.g. large limbs or sticks protruding out of the top of the container. 3.) In the past customers have put loose trash in containers and covered it up with loose leaves and/or dirt, creating health and sanitary issues, including unexpected heavy lifting loads and access to trash for rodents and other animals. Heavy containers increase back injuries and workers compensation claims, resulting in higher premium payments and lower productivity. 4.) Leaves blowing out of trash cans/boxes creates litter in ditches and curb lines as well as blocked drainage structures, causing higher operational costs due to crews having to clean ditches and more loads for the street sweeper. 5.) Customers have a tendency (even now) to rake their leaves into the gutter for the street sweeper, requiring more labor, higher sweeper maintenance costs, and lower sweeper productivity. 6.) In the past customers have used odd containers to put leaves out for collection, including small swimming pools, small row boats, refrigerator boxes, etc. 7.) Customers will have to purchase many more trash containers than necessary for most months out of the year. 8.) There will likely be more containers to be placed at the curb, which is more inconvenient for the resident and is unsightly for the neighborhood. 9.) More trash containers are likely to lead to a higher demand on Code Enforcement for people who leave their trash containers at the curb every day. 10.) In order to minimize leaves blowing out of the truck, every time crews dump leaves they will have use the packer so that the leaves do not blow out of the back of the truck as they proceed down the road. This will require more fuel as well as take our employees longer to complete a route, lowering productivity and increasing operation and maintenance costs. 11.) Since there will not be an increase the number of containers picked-up, customers will have difficulty storing leaves over multiple pick-ups. If they purchase enough trash containers to hold all of the leaves then they will have the inconvenience of a large number of containers to store all year-long for an issue that is an issue only a couple of months out of the year. Due to the number of containers they will almost certainly have to be stored outside, which will be unsightly for neighbors. 12.) The Code Enforcement Task Force spent several meetings reviewing the sanitation ordinance in 2007-2008 and after the many hours of discussion did not recommend making any changes to the requirement for bagging. City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 0 0 (;291