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Appendix D <br /> GARBAGE OPTIONS <br /> Open Hauling (Current System) Zone System (Open Hauling, with <br /> pick-ups required on a certain day) <br /> Standardization of Garbage services that are offered Garbage services that are offered <br /> Garbage Services are determined by the hauler. City are determined by the hauler. City <br /> does not require pick-up of does not require pick-up of <br /> particular items (except yard waste). particular items (except yard <br /> Would need to pass ordinance in waste). Would need to pass <br /> order to mandate pick-up of items ordinance in order to mandate <br /> such as couches, appliances, and pick-up of items such as couches, <br /> brush. Garbage days are appliances, and brush. In a zone <br /> determined by hauler. system, city would also mandate a <br /> particular pick-up day. <br /> Reduction in Street Because multiple trucks utilize city Multiple trucks would still use the <br /> Wear, Noise Pollution, streets, street wear, noise pollution, city streets; no improvement on <br /> and Air Pollution and air pollution is a concern to the street wear or air pollution. Noise <br /> City Council from garbage trucks would be <br /> concentrated to one day per week <br /> Reporting of Timely While the city does not need to See open hauling. <br /> and Accurate Data report garbage tonnages to the <br /> county and state, this data would <br /> prove helpful if the city wished to <br /> implement a Waste Reduction <br /> program. At this time, haulers do <br /> not provide this data. <br /> Compliance with State The letter of this law was satisfied See open hauling <br /> Law which holds cities when the Council passed an <br /> responsible for knowing ordinance that requires garbage <br /> how waste is being pick-ups. However, enforcement of <br /> disposed the ordinance could be time <br /> consuming; there is not sufficient <br /> city staff to track every household. <br /> Costs_t&Residents_and— • V_ariationin_service levels; not all See costs of open hauling PLUS <br /> the City haulers provide appliance pick-up or <br /> bag rates, for example • Possible increases in garbage fees <br /> • Street wear and pollution from if this system is implemented; <br /> multiple trucks running down the haulers have indicated that their <br /> same streets costs may rise if their routes must <br /> • Administration costs - time spent be changed <br /> in licensing and coordinating • Noise of all trucks on the same <br /> multiple haulers and tracking day could be an annoyance to some <br /> complaints about those who do not <br /> have a hauler <br />