The city council wants to look at contracting out garbage collection in the city to see if it can save money by privatizing the operation.
City Councilor Tim Donovan raised the issue at Tuesday’s city council meeting. He noted that few, if any, communities in the county do their own garbage collection. The vast majority hire private companies to pick up their garbage and haul it to the landfill.
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