Take off.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

We wanted to take the opportunity to talk to you all tonight about brush pickup.

We have on the agenda tonight for the regular session.

So in the ordinance before you, what we have is we have defined the brush size, the limbs and the trunks not to exceed 14 inches in dynamic diameter and or 10 feet in length.

It is more often than not we are having people who have those large limbs and trunks at the road.

While it's okay for us to pick that up, that does add a fee for us because we have to haul it to our site and then we have to haul it off and pay the fees to have it grinded at a separate site.

So we just wanted to better define this and also look at adding a fee for those larger limbs.

Should we um should we move forward with

that?

And

I'll let Jack add anything if there's anything he wanted to add to

that.

Yeah, so I mean, some of the stuff that we're picking up, a lot of our machines are getting to the point or knuckle booms or we picked up some on Mason Drive that were over three foot in diameter.

So you know, with that it called it becomes a safety thing for us too because of the weight in the truck, then also the boom reaching out to

it.

Uh so you know, also in the ordinance it talks about it where we can decline to pick it up because of those situations also.

Thank

you, Jack.

Anyone else want to talk about this?

I've got a comment or two, but go ahead.

Anybody else can go?

Go ahead.

Uh the only thing uh that I would suggest or recommend if we go forward with this ordinance of anything larger than 14 inches would be in these special cases like we had with the ice storm.

I don't I would uh in a as long as we during the normal longs it isn't a storm, but I think it in them incidents we need to go ahead and get what we got to get just to take care of the citizens.

And we would do that.

We we have done that we did that through the ice storm and we would continue to do that.

Yeah, that would only be basically for ice storms and tornadoes, but I don't I don't think at that point we really even if we had to get a subcontract to come in, subcontractor to come in and assist us with that on the bigger stuff, so we don't tear up our equipment.

Um I just don't want

to

rule it out in emergency situation.

Uh

walk me through how we would charge them, like you're coming up and you know you're picking up debris and it's too big.

So

how that works.

That would be uh, you know, of course, we we would see it.

Uh actually it would stay there.

We would pick up the brush or whatever was uh supposed to be picked up, uh the larger stuff would stay there, and then of course we would contact them and let them know there is a fee to pick this up because

it

is against our ordinance.

Uh if they agree to it, I think Russell said something about them having to sign a form saying that they understand.

Uh and a lot of things we run into is we're having contractors cut it and bring it to the road, and it's clearly states in our ordinance before that you know we don't do that, but it it does happen a

lot.

Uh so with that, you know, we would kind of throw it back to the homeowner saying, you know, it is your responsibility.

You're saying that you know it was I I brought it to the road, it wasn't no contractor that came and cut the tree

down,

uh, and they would sign it and they would be okay with it and it would go to their uh monthly billing.

Okay, so we just put it like onto their monthly bill on the utilities or something.

Yes.

Okay.

Cool.

What if they what if they don't sign?

Then it would remain at the road.

So

is there any benefit?

Yeah.

Seems like every resident could just not refuse to sign it, which is not very nice to do, but they could just not sign it and still get their oversized brush picked up.

No, their brush would be a good thing.

Oh,

you're saying at the road.