Hi, I'm Rob Boyer. I'm the City Manager, and today I want to talk a little bit about leaf season.


In general, we usually start leaf season Monday after Columbus Day. However, because of the warm weather this year, we've pushed that back to the first week of November.


So we will be starting to do our leaf collection the first week. Also, just a few pointers on that. One of the challenges for our crew is we need them put out on the curb in a specific way, primarily in a continuous line along the curb line.


It also helps if you do not pile them near power poles or signs or guy wires for the power poles.


Because of the manipulation of the tubes, we can't easily manipulate them around these obstacles.


We also ask that you don't include any grass clippings or flowers or hostas or sticks or trash of any kind.


The trouble is these things plug up our machines and they make it difficult to efficiently remove the leaves from your property.


Also, please avoid parking near piles or adjacent to leaf piles. We have we have a truck and a towable machine and they take up quite a maybe 25 30 feet And if we have a car in the way the tube the suction tube can't swing over far enough to remove those leaves So we would just ask you to to please not park adjacent to leaf piles during collection season and lastly, please keep leaf piles away from the the storm drains One of the issues with if we get a rain the leaves go down a storm drain and you can plug up our storm system as well as that's adding a lot of biomass to our receiving streams.


So we want to avoid putting leaf piles near the storm drains. So this year, as I mentioned before, we're going to be starting collection here the first week of November.


In general, we're able to get through the city five to seven times. We generally work from west to east across the city and you can check the status of our Progress on the leaf map available at the city website.


And as you will notice, there's certain areas highlighted with different colors. There's a key there and it's it kind of indicates where where we've been, where we're going.


But bear in mind, just because it says complete, that's just complete for that run.


So that doesn't necessarily mean it's complete for the season. We'll continue to pick up leaves.