Currently, when a resident - for example, trims tree branches from their trees - they drag the limbs out to the alley behind their home and pile them up along their back fence. Then they wait patiently for the sanitation department to come and pick-up the debri. Unfortunately, in most cases - having the debri picked up normally requires one or two telephone calls to the Public Works department, a work-order is then generated and a crew is sent out with a truck designed for such pick-ups (not a standard "garbage truck").
Why couldn't the drivers of the trucks that empty the waste containers just call in a work-order by radio, whenever they see a pile of debri needing picked-up? Wouldn't this cut down on repeated telephone calls from the residents of Clovis. Would this not reduce the amount of time that a pile of debri lays in the alley, possible becoming the home of vermin and such?
If a shortage of City personnel and trucks is factor in the current situation - could the City possibly contract out these debri pick-ups to local companies?
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There is a system used in Australia to pick up bio waste on a rotating basis using local contrators (each borough is divided into sections that have pick up at different times throughout the year). This seems to work well as everyone arranges to do their trimming, and dumping out on the verge, just before their rotation time.
In Seattle there is a semi-weekly yard-waste pickup in a dumpster-type wheeled container with a colored top (to differentiate it from the recycling container). (It eliminates all those hard-to-fill paper bags.)
I think the idea of the regular pickup crew making note electronically of waste piles is a good interim solution.