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Budget Committee Meeting <br />August 26, 1999 <br />Page 3 <br />container. Mr. Huddleston said the brush method as you can see is one <br />of our serious type collection items that they have a lot of trouble with. <br />They have sent out regulations from time to time, they are placed in the <br />water bills, they have been placed on the TV information center, and <br />things of that nature, but people continue to pile trash out on right -of- <br />ways of all sizes. Mr. Huddleston said he had been there thirteen years <br />and they have handled the brush and collection properly, and this is the <br />first year they have gotten in the amount of brush, and he felt some of <br />that has to do with the expansion of the city limits. Mr. Huddleston <br />stated that what they are proposing will be able to get it up off of the <br />right-of-ways, but it will not keep people from piling it out and not calling <br />us about it. Mr. Huddleston recommended to the Committee to look at <br />something that will help clean up the city from the standpoint of people <br />putting waste on the right -of -ways. <br />City Manager Malone reported at one time, the city had problems with <br />people placing things in trash bags such as needles that should not be <br />in there, which caused injuries because of handling the trash by hand. <br />His thought that by going to the automated system that we will be giving <br />them a larger container, and everything that we pick up will be in that <br />container unless it is brush, and that is going to be a different situation <br />with the bulk items. <br />Councilman McWaters asked would it pay to have a trash collection <br />station. Mr. Huddleston said that had been tried. Councilman <br />McWaters said he had property on a rural type road here in the City and <br />it is dumped on all the time, and if they had a place where they could <br />take it, it might help. City Manager Malone said B & B operates a <br />collection station, and if the City operated a collection station, the cost <br />would have to be recovered from that operation. <br />Mr. Wilson wanted to know what the city did with the brush and limbs <br />that they pick up. Mr. Huddleston said at the present time they are using <br />chippers, and that has been fine for the past five to seven years, and the <br />brush is chipped on site. People call in on this and the city makes those <br />stops once a week, but now it is five to six days a week because our <br />chippers can not keep up with the volume of limbs that are being put out, <br />