WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:27.300 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 the 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. 00:00:27.300 --> 00:00:36.580 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. 00:00:37.220 --> 00:00:46.020 It also helps if you do not pile them near power poles or signs or guy wires for the power poles. 00:00:46.580 --> 00:00:53.180 Because of the manipulation of the tubes, we can't easily manipulate them around these obstacles. 00:00:53.180 --> 00:01:02.260 We also ask that you don't include any grass clippings or flowers or hostas or sticks or trash of any kind. 00:01:02.260 --> 00:01:10.720 The trouble is these things plug up our machines and they make it difficult to efficiently remove the leaves from your property. 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:15.560 Also, please avoid parking near piles or adjacent to leaf piles. 00:01:16.380 --> 00:01:21.600 We have a truck and a towable machine and they take up quite a maybe 25, 30 feet. 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:50.980 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 please not park adjacent to leaf piles during collection season and lastly please keep leaf piles away from the storm drains. One of the issues with if we get a rain, the leaves go down the storm drain, they can plug up our storm system as well as that's adding a lot of biomass to our receiving streams. 00:01:50.980 --> 00:02:20.980 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 00:02:20.980 --> 00:02:44.900 Colors, there's a key there, and it kind of indicates 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 it doesn't necessarily mean it's complete for the season, we'll continue to pick up leaves, we'll keep going through town until the first serious snow, or we're actually done, so bearing that in mind. 00:02:44.900 --> 00:02:54.800 Well, anyway, thanks for listening, and I appreciate your time, appreciate you watching, and we hope to be providing more communication like this in the future.