Office of the City Clerk - Record #: R2017-219

• Record #: R2017-219
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 3/29/2017
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
• Title: Call for hearing(s) on costs associated with City garbage cart program and options for procuring stronger garbage carts
• Sponsors: Brookins, Jr., Howard
• Topic: COMMITTEE/PUBLIC HEARINGS - Committee on Finance
• Related files: R2019-362

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/29/2019		City Council	Failed to Pass
5/17/2017		Committee on Finance	Held in Committee	Pass
3/29/2017	46207	City Council	Referred

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, More than 1.5 million, heavy duty plastic 96-gallon garbage carts are supplied by the City to single-family residences and apartment buildings of four units or less; and

WHEREAS, Despite being "super carts" that are equipped with heavy duty tight fitting lids, City garbage carts are frequently damaged by rodents and wildlife; and

WHEREAS, Aldermen throughout the City receive multiple requests from residents to regularly replace garbage carts which have been almost immediately damaged by local animals; and

WHEREAS, The current necessity of replacing damaged garbage carts is costly and inefficient; and, now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and Members of the City Council of the City of Chicago, assembled this 29^th day of March, 2017, do hereby call upon the Commissioner of Streets and Sanitation to appear at hearings before the Committee on Finance to discuss costs associated with the City's garbage cart program and options for procuring stronger garbage carts.