Garbage collection in Saugeen Shores will no longer be an in-house service.
Council has given initial approval to a five-year contract with Bruce Area Solid Waste Recycling that will see it take on garbage collection services in Saugeen Shores beginning on October 1st.
The contract will pay Bruce Area an average of about $300,000 per year over the course of the agreement, and will reduce the Saugeen Shores Public Works staff by two full-time positions through attrition.
Bruce Area Solid Waste Recycling is co-owned by Saugeen Shores and six other Bruce County municipalities and already provides curbside recycling collection services.
Deputy Mayor Luke Charbonneau says public works staff are increasingly seeing their duties expanded through new regulations and they can't tie up that staff by having them collect garbage.
"This changeover is going to allow us to move our precious human resources away from doing work that we can easily contract out and get them doing the work that we need to keep the community safe and to meet all of our obligations," says Charbonneau.
