Council to Vote on Extending Recycling Contract

The Chatham Borough Council will vote Monday on a resolution to exercise a 1-year extension option for their contract with Waste Management, the vendor which manages recycling in the borough.

The borough switched vendors for 2011 so residents could use single stream recycling and no longer sort their recyclables. All papers, newspapers, cardboards, plastics Nos. 1 through 7, magazines and aluminum and steel cans can be placed into a single bin.

The contract with Waste Management extends only through 2011, but there are two 1-year options for the contract to continue through 2012 and 2013.

According to the agenda for the council's Monday meeting, the council will vote on whether to exercise the 2012 option to continue the single-stream recycling for the price of $125,640. The resolution does not include the 2013 option.

Smart Parking & 2012 Fees

Another resolution on the agenda outlines changes to the parking lot at the . The council agreed to look into installing machines with Smart Card technology which will allow residents and other commuters to pay by Smart Card.

Police Officer Robert Sweetin told the council the Smart Card machines will take between 8 and 12 seconds to register a payment via a Smart Card, as opposed to the current machines which take up to 45 seconds to register a credit card payment.

The council will also establish the parking fees for 2012, including annual fees for borough residents for the six municipal lots in town at:

• the railroad station, both north and south lots
• the Center Street east and west lots
• the Bowers Lane lot and
• the Division Avenue lot.

The Chatham Borough Council meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month at the at 7:30 p.m.