By Bruce Kettelle
For the first time in nearly 30 years there will not be a city leaf pick up program in Trotwood this fall. Residents accustomed to raking their leaves into piles by the curb will have to bag their leaves for pickup with the trash.
The public works department was forced to make some cuts this year after the failure of a road levy last November. Public Works director Thomas Odenigbo said reductions included street maintenance, snow removal, and the leaf pick up program.
Rumpke, the city’s trash hauler, has agreed to pick up the bags of leaves on the regular trash collection days in the city. Odenigbo is also encouraging residents to consider composting their own leaves. There are several methods of composting including commercially available compost barrels available at home improvement centers.
Odenigbo wants residents to know that unbagged leaves at the curb will not be picked up. Leaves left by the street will create problems with storm water runoff including clogging local storm drains.
Trotwood city council would like to see the leaf pick up program reinstated. That will happen if the new public works levies on this November’s ballot succeed.
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This may be a blessing in that citizens need to rely on other ways and means to handle things. Since they pay trash anyway, the city can save on vehicles to pick up, labor to do it and gasoline. By the time you rake them to the curb, you can bag them or mulch them. In thirty years, never raked. Mowed them and lawn is doing great. Less property taxes doesn't hurt either. Services, such as this makes sense for the city not to do.
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