(KNOX) -The Grand Forks Committee of the Whole moved to send the city’s garbage and recycling program to the Grand Forks City Council.
City administrator Todd Feland cited a public survey that gave city garbage collection high marks.
“People are really satisfied with their solid waste collection services. And that is shown with this survey, that the scientific survey 93 percent of people are very satisfied with their service,”
The recycling service of the City of Grand Forks gets lower marks, according to Feland.
“With the current recycling service, 62 percent were satisfied with that, so a little bit less. I can understand that.”
Feland said that the recycling program now has smaller receptacles.
“The original folks that went through this silo container system we started that in the late 90’s, early 2000’s, and everybody got a 90-gallon container. And if you have a 90-gallon container from the original, it’s probably the best container you’re ever going to get. So all the new containers are not made as well,” Feland said.
The City of Grand Forks now uses 60-gallon containers.
Feland told the committee that the city charges one fee for both recycling and garbage collection.
“Just incorporating the recycling service as part of the overall, we’ll call it the garbage fee or the solid waste fee as part of that, just incorporate that. The scientific survey said 61 percent just wanted it incorporated into that overall fee we pay for solid waste services,” Feland said.
The next step is approval by the Grand Forks City Council at Monday’s meeting.
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