Tag: automated trash collection

Fort Smith Board OKs trash rate reduction

Trash collection will cost less in the city of Fort Smith thanks to a vote by the Board of Directors at Tuesday night's meeting (May 7). During Tuesday's meeting, the…

Automated trash issue makes the November ballot

Fort Smith citizens will get a chance to vote in November on mandating a citywide automated trash collection system, and possibly put an end to a controversial issue that has…

Fort Smith Board members explain vote shift

Fort Smith Directors Philip Merry, George Catsavis, Steve Tyler, and Pam Weber, who all changed their votes to support automated solid waste collection by Fort Smith Sanitation at the last…

Trash vote organizer moving forward with ballot push

The Vote for Automated (VFA) campaign clinched a win Thursday (Aug. 23) at the Fort Smith Board of Directors meeting in the ongoing debate over whether the city should move…

Fort Smith Board makes abrupt trash service switch

What would have been a light agenda for the Fort Smith Board of Directors Thursday night (Aug. 23) turned in to a potential game-changer for supporters of the automated citywide…

Automated trash petition ruled insufficient (Updated)

Fort Smith City Clerk Sherri Gard has deemed insufficient a petition seeking to place an automated trash proposal on the Nov. 6 ballot. Organizers have 10 days to gather 10…

Fort Smith Board reviews trash rate options

Fort Smith Sanitation Director Baridi Nkokheli revealed rate differentials for automated and non-automated solid waste collection on Tuesday (Aug. 14) at the Fort Smith Board of Directors study session. The…

Legal threats, rate studies cloud trash issue

The Vote for Automated campaign is on track to get city-wide automated curbside solid waste collection on the Nov. 6 ballot, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over. According…

Trash petition effort submits 3,338 signatures

Fort Smith residents Joel Culberson, Cecil Greene, and Judith Moran, were joined by Ward 1 Fort Smith Director candidate Keith Lau, in delivering 3,338 signatures to City Clerk Sherri Gard…

Automated trash effort may meet signature goal

The effort to gather Fort Smith voter signatures has come a long way in just a few days, with organizer Joel Culberson optimistic that more than 2,822 signatures will be…

Automated petition effort scrambles to collect signatures

It’s crunch time for supporters of the automated curbside solid waste collection initiative for the entire city of Fort Smith. Organizer Joel Culberson, who launched the effort following a 4-3…

Fort Smith Board nixes trash rate report

One story out of the Fort Smith Board of Directors study session on Tuesday (July 24) was what wasn’t discussed. The topic of automated and manual rate differentials in the…

Fort Smith Ward 1 candidates talk trash

Ward 1 City Director candidates Liz Berry Armstrong, Keith Lau, and Ken Pevehouse, will meet in an August 14 primary to determine a successor to City Director Steve Tyler, who…

Fort Smith reviewing ‘pay as you throw’ trash costs

“Pay as you throw” is a system of solid waste collection currently under use by the Tulsa Department of Sanitation, and one that could be considered by Fort Smith. At…

Launch event held for automated trash petition

Supporters of automated solid waste collection met at Sweet Bay by Creekmore Park on Monday (July 2) to sign the petition for a November ballot initiative that would move Fort…

Director Merry open to trash rate increase

Fort Smith Director Philip Merry is ready to look at rate increases for the non-automated solid waste collection areas of Fort Smith. His open door to a rate increase comes…

Fort Smith Board alters trash service vote

Fort Smith Mayor Sandy Sanders did not issue a veto Tuesday night (June 19) at the Fort Smith Board of Directors Meeting. He didn’t have to. But his comments leading…

Mayor Sanders avoids trash-vote veto discussion

Will Fort Smith Mayor Sandy Sanders veto board action approving the solicitation of bids from third-party refuse collection providers at the Tuesday night (June 19) meeting of the Fort Smith…

Fort Smith trash issue takes another turn

The Fort Smith Board of Directors will once again address the trash collection issue Tuesday (June 19) when they vote on whether to solicit proposals for a private carrier to…

Fort Smith Board could veto trash election results

Fort Smith citizen Joel Culberson is fighting to revisit the automated-versus-non-automated refuse collection debate by officially placing it on the November ballot. But according to City Administrator Ray Gosack, a…