The disposal company is paying about $6 a gallon for diesel, which is about a 50% increase from a year ago. Garbage collection trucks average three to five miles per gallon.
Already, the planning department has been busy updating development codes and other administrative tasks like establishing design standards, in part, to align with state requirements.
Following considerable public support by its members during prior occasions, the council seemed to be pumping the brakes on the statement. By the time the measure was approved, even a paltry public outlay of about $300 to be used to distribute the resolution’s messaging, had been stripped away.