The fall schedule for what is being picked up when can sometimes be a mystery, hopefully this information from the Streets Superintendent helps!
Currently we have 65-70 employees assigned to leaf collection, not counting our sweepers, in an attempt to get all the leaves collected prior to heavy snow. We are working 10 hours per day and may work a Saturday or two as well. Remember that an inch or so of snow will not stop us from collecting leaves.
As a result, other services must suffer.
Brush collection is temporarily suspended or at best, a crew or two only is assigned. Brush is a scheduled collection for 7 months a year, from April through October. These same people then are assigned to leaf collection during this time of the year. We will assign crews back to brush collection as soon as the majority of leaves are collected. Our goal is to complete an additional round of brush before the first of the year.
Large Items is also slowed because of having to assign employees who normally are scheduled for large item collection and place them on leaf collection. We normally collect large items on the same day or the day after the normal collection. This process is now slowed. Our goal during this time is to complete one collection cycle every two weeks. If constituents ask, please ask them to be patient. A couple of things they can do to help is hold their large items until leaf collection is over, which should be by mid December or they can bring them into the drop off sites themselves at either Badger Rd. or Sycamore.
