From the desk of Mayor Bill Cervenik

Soon the City of Euclid will be distributing new trash and recycling carts to residents for curbside collection. City Council recently approved a new contract with Kimble Companies for both trash and recycling collection. Under the new contract, Kimble will supply all households with a 96-gallon trash cart and a 64-gallon recycling cart.

Residents are encouraged to place all trash into the cart, but the contract also allows for unlimited trash pickup, so they can have additional cans or bags on the tree lawn as well. The recycling cart is much larger than the current bins now in use which will be more accommodating for many residents. Both carts are very easy to handle and maneuver. I am confident residents will be very pleased with the change. The new Kimble contract is expected to save the city more than $500,000 over the next four years. The new carts will be distributed with an instruction sheet in early 2014.   

Fall is here and unfortunately those beautiful leaves are now falling. City crews are working hard to keep up with leaf collection. Crews work their way from one end of the city to the other and then, start over. Please Be Patient! Cold and wet leaves are harder to collect and, on occasion, clog the vacuum delaying the collection process. Collection will be completed in early December and after that you can bag leaves and put them curbside with your trash collection. If you want to know where the leaf collection crews are working, go to www.cityofeuclid.com and on the homepage click on Leaf Collection.  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mayor Bill Cervenik