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Resolution Authorizing a Contract with Rantoul Truck Center, LLC for the Rental of Eight Rear Load Refuse Trucks with Cart Tippers ($108,521.60)
Memorandum
Please find attached for your consideration a resolution that authorizes a contract with Rantoul Truck Center, LLC for the rental of eight rear load refuse trucks with cart tippers for use in the City’s fall leaf collection program.
This year the City is making the transition to provide fall leaf collection through the established weekly curbside yard waste collection program. Leaves may be placed in curbside carts designated for yard waste or in compostable lawn and leaf bags for collection at the curbside. Following a first offering of carts for yard waste in 2009, and to assist residents in the transition, the City again made available, at a discounted price, curb carts to residents earlier this summer. Carts ordered by residents during that offering will be delivered to residents in late September.
The solid waste millage revenues have been decreasing, putting pressure on the services this dedicated millage supports. Providing leaf collection through the existing curbside yard waste collection program allows the City to continue the fall leaf collection service to residents. In addition, removing the pickup of bulky leaves in the street will reduce neighborhood issues with safety for bicyclist, vehicle parking and plugging of storm drains. Additional environmental benefits are also anticipated with reduced pollutant loadings to the Huron River associated with leaf litter.
Based on historical data, the majority of leaves are anticipated to be collected in the period beginning October 25 through December 17, 2010. In order to accommodate leaves set out either in carts or in bags, while also handling the additional volume at curbside, supplemental equipment is needed in the form of trucks that can tip carts as well as compact leaves. The cost for these rentals was anticipated and calculat...
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