The Park Ridge City Council met on April 20, 2026, at 7:30 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers. The meeting began with a brief explanation from Public Works Director Mitchell about the transition of waste haulers from Groot to SBC, with SBC cans being delivered that week and the official start date of May 1st. The council then proceeded through action items, discussion items, and department reports, covering public works, public safety, finance, administrative services, and procedures and regulations. Key outcomes included approval of a one-year extension for the Elm and Ash Tree Injection Program, a contentious vote on a one-year RedSpeed contract, passage of a welcoming city resolution, and unanimous approval of a resolution opposing the state's BUILD agenda.
Like to call the order of the committee of the whole meeting of the Parkridge City Council for Monday, April 20th, 2026. Can we have a roll call, please? Here. Here. Sanchez? Here? Lawrence? Here. You know. Here. Steinfells? Here. Rapus in? Here. Leftler. Yeah. We have a quorum. Excellent. Thank you. First item is citizens who wish to be heard on a non-agenda item. So if you're here tonight to speak on something and make a comment on something that's not on this agenda, this would be your time. Seeing none, we'll move on. But before we move on to public works, um, I wanted to give uh seed a few minutes to public works director Mitchell to talk about garbage. Um since we do have a fair amount of people in the room. I think we're starting the transition from Groot to SBC at least cans this week. I know I noticed in my neighborhood uh a mix of cans. Can you maybe share what's going on and maybe what people should do for the ruster for the remainder of the week? Uh sure. Um so the city is changing waste haulers, as the mayor stated, the official start date is May 1st. Um however, the new hauler, which is SBC started delivering cans today. They started on Monday's route, which is on the south side of town. Um, but I know they also hit part of Tuesdays and Wednesday's route as well. Um so residents are to uh leave their garbage out on their regular garbage day this week uh in their Group cans, and Groot will service the cans uh and leave them. Once residents receive their new SBC cans, they are to start using them at the following week's uh regular pickup day. Umce they receive their new cans, they're to leave their empty group cans out um in the parkway. And Groot will begin picking up empty group cans starting this Friday. Uh so it's kind of unknown what day each pickup day will have their group cans removed, but the just leave them out and eventually we'll get to them. So we should take our garbage out this week in Groot cans? Correct. It will get picked up by Groot, and then we should leave the Groot cans on the curb where we put them. SBC cans should be brought dropped off at some point this week, and we should put new garbage into the SBC cans, and those will be the cans we take out next week. Correct. Yeah, continue to use Group cans until you receive the SBC cans and then start using those. Okay. Yeah, hold up. I'll let me start here and we'll go all the way around. Joseph and then we'll come down. Just on the sticker as well, if we can on the yard waste container, if we can just get an explanation of what people should do. So I believe any yard waste can that has been purchased by the resident will still be able to be used by the resident, even if it says even if it was a can purchase from Groot or in my case a can purchase from Republic, but there is a sticker that people can get here, it's free that will permanently affix over the logo of Republic andor Groot, right? Yep, it's an SBC sticker.