City eyes hiring Barnes Nursery to run the brush and compost site
A $50,000 contract would hand oversight of the Goodrich Road site to the Huron company. City residents would see no change.
Bellevue will start taking brush again at the wastewater treatment plant on Goodrich Road sometime in April, Safety-Service Director Jeffrey Crosby said, but this year most of the work will be contracted out.
City Council is expected to vote March 25 on a $50,000 service contract with Barnes Nursery of Huron. Barnes would oversee the compost site and brush disposal and use the plant grounds as a transfer site. The city would no longer need an Ohio EPA permit or have to keep that paperwork, and Barnes would supply staff to check IDs. City residents would not pay. Township residents could drop off brush for a tipping fee.
“The city residents will see no change,” Crosby said. “We will still have compost for people.” Barnes would also bring dumpsters for large trash items on the second and fourth weekends through November, after scheduling problems with last summer’s dumpster contractor.
Background: new compost rules and dumpster limits. The contractor: Barnes Nursery. More in Local News.