By Steven Stilt
Wamac officials continue to work on an ordinance that would penalize city trash customers for leaving their trash receptacles out for extended periods of time.
Members of the Wamac City Council voted Monday evening to table the ordinance, which as written would have required customers to put their trash bins out on Wednesdays, which is the regularly scheduled day for trash pickup, and to bring their bins back in by Wednesday night. City Clerk Marian Suhl says the measure will be amended by City Attorney Luke Behme to clarify that residents can put their trash receptacles out on Tuesday evening but must retrieve them by Thursday evening.
Suhl says the measure will be brought back before the council after Behme is done amending it. If the ordinance is approved, violators would be subject to an ordinance violation ticket.
The council on Monday also tabled a proposal from Florida-based company Tower Alliance for a $158,000 lump-sum payment for perpetual access to city-owned property on which the company maintains a cellular tower. Suhl says Tower Alliance currently pays the city $660 per month for access to the site.
Also during the meeting, Greater Centralia Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Marcus Holland and the chamber’s membership director, Matt Packman, spoke to the council about the chamber’s “Inspire” marketing campaign, through which the organization aims to bring together people and businesses from within a 10-mile radius of Centralia. Holland and Packman also shared with the council copies of the chamber’s “Inspire Community” magazine and asked council members to consider ways in which the chamber can better promote Wamac.
