The Draper City Council met on October 7, 2025, at 5:30 PM for a study session followed by a business session at 7:00 PM. Key actions included approving a budget amendment, adopting a solid waste ordinance to end city collection on private streets, contracting with Ace Recycling, canceling an at-large city council race, and renaming a street. The council also discussed a potential community center, America250 celebrations, and a new city mascot.
We're on. Okay, we're back into the open session. The next item is a solid waste amendment. Sir. Um I'll I'll speak for this. Uh so we brought this before you s a couple of times and we made decisions on this, and we just wanted to give this one last opportunity before we uh really commit to changing our order or changing the code to eliminate city services for garbage and uh recycling stuff on private roads. The reason that we just to recap the reason that we're doing this, proposing this is really for liability purposes. Um these roads are not safe for us to be driving down. Uh so we have we put out an RFP with uh negotiated a contract with ACE disposal to provide services. We weren't even sure that we were gonna be able to find someone. We did uh they're willing to do it. Uh the there is an increase in fee to I think thirty-eight dollars or two dollars. It's currently uh fifteen. So it's a significant increase. Uh they will take the liability of going down these roads. They what they intend to do is essentially put two people in their truck. Uh as well as in some of these roads, they're gonna have to actually pick up the cans by hand and wheel them out. So it's really sketchy. Um the council also decided determined in previous meetings that that they didn't you didn't want to discretionarily divide up the private roads and we're gonna do some of them but not all of them. So we've included just a blank a blanket statement in the code the new code that Draper City will no longer be providing uh services directly meeting with our uh department personnel and equipment uh uh for private roads. Now what I expect is that there's gonna be some pushback. Uh we've tried to anticipate that we know that the cost is going to affect some uh more than others. Um so that can be an issue. Uh so I just wanted to remind you of how we got to where we are, and I will be presenting the ordinance with the amended code tonight, but just wanted to give this and the agreement. And the agreement, the agreement, but wanted to give you an opportunity to talk trash tonight. We're just waiting for that one. We did talk about the possibility of offering the option of them all rolling them out to main roads. Yes, we uh if that's what they want to do. Um I don't know that we've written we haven't addressed that in the code. Um but we will not be I I think it's something we do right now and so it's it's been our practice to turn it down. So there are all the whole lane would have to be allowed to universally agree. No one is required to contract through the city regardless. If somebody wants to do their own trash, they're allowed to as long as they don't break the health code. Yeah. So they could haul it to the land bill themselves, they could hire someone themselves. Uh we we have had people uh try to do that in the past, they were not able to find any one. When we put out our RFP, we had one company respond. And that's partly why the prices are that no question about it. So this would even address the private lanes where it's safe for us to access. That's a harder argument to make. For example, um Draper Heights, those are normal wood streets on a normal subdivision, except it's gated. That's the only difference. It's private streets and it's gated. Uh other than that, it's not safe for us to go in there. But we did not want, and we talked about this before, like um we don't want to treat any of these any different than if we only give the hardest ones to ACE, that's going to affect it. Well, you can't just say, well, you're easy. Right, right. It's gotta be all around. There's still liability associated with those roads because we don't own that. Right.