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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, May 18, 2015 <br />Page 2 <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, do we have a schedule? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, no. We do our best to go on every street once a week at the height of leaf season. <br />There may be a tune when it gets to be 7-8 days. In the last few years it's never been two weeks. In <br />my previous job, we did do scheduling of leaf pick-up. Unfortunately what you have to do then is <br />actually reduce service to get to where you know you can meet your schedule so we would be looking <br />at a two-week schedule at that point. In actuality we would be reducing our service as opposed to <br />increasing our service. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, it takes about two weeks to cover the Village? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, if you wanted to guarantee a day, you would have to break it down that way. <br />Leaves are certainly very dependent on the weather. Sometimes they fall early, sometimes they fall <br />late. Snow falls, rain, a11 those are factors in picking up leaves. When they are nice and dry, you get <br />through the Village in a week with no problem at all. Rain or snow certainly affects our ability to get <br />through the Village and pick up the leaves. <br />Mr. Saponaro asked, what about in the spring? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, fliat's an area I would be very reluctant to get started. First of all, it would be, you <br />are going to make one pick up, well, I didn't get mine out in time. Now it's two pick ups. Now it's <br />three pick ups. Spring is our busiest tune of the year. <br />Mr. Saponaro asked, would it make sense for us in the spring to do a scheduled date and then you are <br />done? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, I can tell you my experience with that is we started doing a limb pick up after a <br />storm and it's never ended. It never ended because people continue to bring their limbs out. It's hard <br />for people to get rid of this stuff. I understand that. It's a service. But if we were to do that with leaves, <br />it would not end. Everyone would continue to bring it out throughout the year and if they missed it they <br />would ask that we coine and get it. It's hard to say no to that one person as opposed to just saying, no, <br />we are not going to have a spring leaf collection. I know of no community that has a spring leaf <br />collection. <br />Mr. Kane replied, they had it before you were here, just so you know. <br />Mayor Rinker stated, that's totally news to me. <br />Mr. Kane replied, I am pretty sure we had it. I was here in 1996. <br />Mr. Metzung stated, that's when I got here. We didn't have a spring clean-up when I got here in 1996. <br />Mr. Saponaro asked, even if we don't do the pick-up aspect of it, can the leaves be brought to the same <br />location?