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

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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.

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So we will be starting to do our leaf collection the first week.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Also, please avoid parking near piles or adjacent to leaf piles.

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We have we have a truck and a towable machine and they take up quite a maybe 25 30 feet

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And if we have a car in the way the tube the suction tube can't swing over far enough to remove those leaves

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So we would just ask you to to please

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not park adjacent to leaf piles during collection season and lastly, please keep leaf piles away from the

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the storm drains

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One of the issues with if we get a rain the leaves go down a storm drain

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and you can plug up our storm system as well as that's adding a lot of biomass to our receiving

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streams.

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So we want to avoid putting leaf piles near the storm drains.

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So this year, as I mentioned before, we're going to be starting collection here the first

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week of November.

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In general, we're able to get through the city five to seven times.

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We generally work from west to east across the city and you can check the status of our

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Progress on the leaf map available at the city website.

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And as you will notice, there's certain areas highlighted with different colors.

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There's a key there and it's it kind of indicates where where we've been,

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where we're going.

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

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So that doesn't necessarily mean it's complete for the season.

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We'll continue to pick up leaves.

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We'll keep going through town until the first

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and

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so on.