Additional information about Solid Waste and Recycling may
be obtained by calling Scott Hecht, Solid Waste Division Manager at
Town Focus Areas
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Focus Area I:
Community Planning
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Focus Area II:
Infrastructure
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Focus Area III:
Financial Condition
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Focus Area IV: Municipal Services |
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Town Goals
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Achieve a well-planned community using innovative
and proactive planning approaches and techniques.
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Ensure that roads, water and wastewater facilities,
parks, and other infrastructure exists for the existing citizens and for the
future needs identified in the comprehensive plan.
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Achieve a stable and strong financial position by
accurately estimating, prudently allocating, and managing financial
resources.
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Achieve a high level of service to the citizens in a
prompt, reliable, responsive, and cost-effective manner. |
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Town Initiatives
(pages 2 and 3 of this
document contain full descriptions of each Town Initiative) |
Growth Management
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Housing Program
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Comprehensive Planning
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Land Use Plan
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Environmental Concerns
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Infrastructure and Level of Service
Standards
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Fiscal Plan
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Water, Wastewater, Transportation
Infrastructure
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Broad Band Technology Services
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Long Term Financial Plan
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Performance Measurement
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Short Term Financial Planning
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Review Operations
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Cost Consciousness and Sustained
Service Provision
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Public Involvement
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Departmental Goals and Initiatives |
1,5,6
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1,2,3,5,6
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7,8
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1
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1,2,4
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DEPARTMENTAL GOALS AND
INITIATIVES
1. Provide household garbage, yardwaste, and curbside recycling collection services on a weekly basis to 36,500 households and 255 businesses.
2. Provide special services and collections on an as-requested basis including, bulky trash, electronics, used oil, used appliances, and dead animal collection/removal.
3. Enforce Town health and sanitation ordinances.
4.
Provide the citizens a
5. Coordinate a solid waste education program to increase citizen understanding of waste reduction/diversion opportunities.
6.
Keeping with
Long-Range Planning
7. Actively monitor and update Town’s ten year solid waste plan as required by state law.
8. Seek long-term disposal options that ensure environmental sound disposal practices at competitive rates.
FY 2008 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Continued to carry out assigned mission of
providing garbage and recycling services that exceeded customer expectations.
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Continued safety training and bi-monthly meetings
that has reduced accident and injury rates.
· Successful routing of 10 automated solid waste routes, 2 mutli-family routes, 4 yard waste routes and 11 recycling routes, along with 32.6% productivity improvements (due to automation).
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Successfully collected, hauled and mulched 10,000
tons of yard waste and 4,500 tons of leaves.
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Successfully collected and disposed of 33,000
tons of garbage and processed 8,600 tons of recyclables.
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100% of Solid Waste and recycling routes
completed on designated collection day.
KEY PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES
· Ensure that 41% of the Town’s waste is diverted from the landfill annually.
· Maintain annual valid “missed service collection complaints” below 1.3% per 1,000 collection points for solid waste, yard waste and recycling collection.
· Deliver recycling information packet and new recycling bins to all new customers within five working days.
· Deliver solid waste information packet and new roll-out cart to all new customers within one working day.
· Achieve a 72% set-out rate for the curbside recycling program.
KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES
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Actual |
Estimated |
Projected |
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% of waste diversion from landfill |
42.3% |
41.8% |
41.8% |
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Number of homes collected per route per day (SW) |
795 |
760 |
730 |
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Number of homes collected per route per day (Recycling) |
1,000 |
852 |
812 |
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Recycling set-out rate percentage |
71% |
71% |
71% |
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Number of valid missed service complaints per 1,000 collection points |
.28 |
.22 |
.25 |
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Actual |
Estimated |
Projected |
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Number of customers |
35,000 |
36,500 |
38,000 |
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Materials to landfill (tons) |
31,808 |
33,200 |
34,700 |
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Materials diverted from landfills (Recycling) |
7,905 |
8,600 |
8,900 |
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Materials diverted from landfills (Yardwaste) |
10,980 |
11,000 |
11,500 |
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Materials diverted from landfills (Leaves) |
4,587 |
4,600 |
4,700 |
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Number of service requests received |
14,446 |
14,600 |
14,800 |
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Number of code enforcement investigations |
162 |
175 |
200 |
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Average days to close code enforcement |
10.4 |
12.3 |
12.0 |
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Total number of special collections |
6,950 |
7,100 |
7,250 |
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Commitment met % for special collections |
95% |
98% |
95% |
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Total number of bins delivered (new) |
1,955 |
2,300 |
2,300 |
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Total number of bins delivered (replacement) |
1,179 |
1,100 |
1,200 |
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Commitment met % – delivery within 5 business days |
91% |
95% |
95% |
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Total number of carts delivered (new) |
1,978 |
2,300 |
2,500 |
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Total number of carts delivered (existing) |
925 |
625 |
650 |
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MSW* cost per ton through transfer station |
38.73 |
37.78 |
33.00 |
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Fund Number: 10-7025 |
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Activity |
Actual FY 2005 |
Actual FY 2006 |
Actual FY 2007 |
Estimated FY 2008 |
Budget FY 2009 |
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Personnel Services |
$2,798,055 |
$2,717,700 |
$2,427,846 |
$2,421,827 |
$2,528,788 |
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Operations and Maintenance |
$2,141,229 |
$3,793,671 |
$2,528,967 |
$2,929,242 |
$3,426,139 |
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Capital Outlay |
$140 |
$28,479 |
$951,188 |
$200,000 |
$385,500 |
Total
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$4,939,424 |
$6,539,850 |
$5,908,001 |
$5,551,069 |
$6,340,427 |
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Authorized FTE's |
77 |
60 |
60 |
51 |
52 |
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Fund Number: 10-7026 |
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Activity |
Actual FY 2005 |
Actual FY 2006 |
Actual FY 2007 |
Estimated FY 2008 |
Budget FY 2009 |
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Personnel Services |
$1,300,317 |
$1,273,462 |
$1,141,118 |
$888,281 |
$1,124,964 |
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Operations and Maintenance |
$712,511 |
$665,557 |
$475,689 |
$317,329 |
$393,538 |
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Capital Outlay |
$0 |
$0 |
$379,897 |
$21,630 |
$746,800 |
Total
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$2,012,828 |
$1,939,019 |
$1,996,704 |
$1,227,240 |
$2,265,302 |
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Authorized FTE's |
35 |
34 |
34 |
19 |
25 |
· The FY 2008 budget includes the continuation of $600,000 to fund for a pay-as-you go vehicle replacement project for the solid waste and recycling fleet. Budgeting this way allows for a smoothing out of the replacement cost, currently estimated at $4.8 million in the next eight years, thereby avoiding a significantly higher funding requirement in any given fiscal year.
· The FY 2009 budget includes the addition of one automated solid waste route and one commingled recycling route. These routes require one Equipment Operator each and a vehicle. This is due to projected growth of 2,400 new homes in FY 09 along with an additional 1,000 for the remainder of FY 08. This will put our productivity at 825 and 886 homes per day per automated driver and recycle driver respectively (when the route begins).
· The FY 2009 budget includes the addition of a one cardboard route. This route requires on Equipment Operator and one Collector and a vehicle. In FY 2006 staff received and collected 836 special cardboard collections as compared to FY 2007, which required 1,001 collections. Based on the months of July, 2007 – January, 2008 collections of 708, we anticipate FY 08 cardboard collections of approximately 1,212 collections, which is an increase of 21 %.
· The FY 2009 budget includes new initiatives in The Town’s recycling program. The largest of these will add chip board (cereal boxes), junk mail, and phone books to our curbside program. This additional volume calls for three new one-man crews and three vehicles at $138,000 each. This program addition is anticipated to begin in April 2009 when the vehicles arrive.
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The FY 2009 budget includes increased efforts in
The Town’s park system. This includes a
base level service that will place recycling containers at comfort stations in
every park. In addition, recycling
services will be strengthened at all special use facilities, which include
Booth Amphitheatre,