The Paducah Board of Commissioners introduced two ordinances during Tuesday night's meeting amending two city ordinancesregarding solid waste operations.
During the July 8 City Commission meeting, Director of Public Works Chris Yarber proposed changes to solid waste operations to expand city services and increase operational efficiencies. The goal is for these proposed changes, once finalized and approved, to be effective September 1. Below is a summary of several of the proposed ordinance changes.
Brush will be picked up weekly for residents with no need to call in or send a request through an app for collection. There will not be a designated collection day.
Brush will be collected at no additional charge if the collection pile meets specific size standards. There will be a fee of $150 if the brush pile exceeds the size standards.
The Public Works Department is also making changes to the curbside recycling program. Instead of Mondays, recycling will be collected on the same day as household garbage.
Curbside recycling will be every other week with a calendar created to show the recycling weeks. Currently, the program is twice per month on Mondays with no collection on the fifth Monday for months with five Mondays. This change will increase the number of collections per year for residents.
Additional operational changes will be presented in the future including a proposed expansion of the bulk item collection service.
