TO: Mayor Collins and Town Council Members
FROM: Kevin Burke, Town Manager
DATE: September 8, 2016
DEPARTMENT: Town Manager
Staff Contact Kevin Burke, 480-348-3690
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AGENDA TITLE:
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Quality of Life Initiative - Trash
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Council Goals or Other Policies / Statutory Requirements:
Quality of Life - Maintain and Improve the Paradise Valley Quality of Life.
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Discuss and provide direction regarding action steps to improve the quality of life surrounding trash collection services within the Town.
Background
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Through various study sessions and a Community Conversation, the negative impacts associated with the current trash collection system have been identified. Further, the Mayor, Council and Community have reviewed different solutions and eliminated a number of them. The Town Manager has taken those remaining solutions and broken them into two tiers.
Tier 1 consists of solutions that can be implemented legislatively-that is, through an ordinance amending the existing sanitation code. Additionally, these solutions seem to have the broadest support from the Mayor and Council based upon feedback at the Community Conversation. The changes include:
* Requiring collection vehicles be 2010 or newer and not more than 7 years old going forward;
* Collection vehicles must have "operation-at-idle" technology and "smart back-up" alarm technology;
* Tighten-up container conditions;
* Enabling Contractors to apply for a waiver from the County to allow for once-a-week pickup of solid waste and recyclables; and,
* Restricts collections to just Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Town Attorney has drafted the attached ordinance making these changes. The study session will review these changes and if agreed upon, the ordinance shall be placed on the September 22 agenda for adoption. Staff further recommends these changes take effect on January 1 as haulers may need to make capital equipment changes and sch...
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