By Wyndi Veigel
Staff Writer
Community Waste Disposal and Caprock presented annual reports at the recent City Council meeting.
According to Robert Medigovich, Community Waste Disposal’s municipal coordinator, Farmersville placed 18 phone calls for service in 2008. The city had seven calls for service in 2007 regarding trash and recycling pickup.
Several of these calls were due to delays caused by inclement weather.
“We are going to work hard during 2009 to get it back down where it was,” Medigovich said.
Recycling for the city also dropped from 145 tons in 2007 to 143 tons in 2008.
“Most of this is due to a drop in newspapers which make up for 70 to 80 percent of all recycling,” Medigovich said. “The 95-gallon carts have made a positive difference in the amount recycled.”
The company has also participated in community events such as Old Time Saturday, the Farmersville Rotary Club Golf
Tournament and chamber activites and placed ads in The Farmersville Times.
CWD has been partnering with the city since 2001.
The city of Farmersville has grown by approximately 500 people since 2001.
Richard Biggerstaff presented the Council with the annual report from Caprock Energy.
“We’ve has a good relationship for many years,” he said.
According to Biggerstaff, during the past year Farmersville had 32 power outages.
“It’s been really good since the average of the outage has been approximately 15 minutes,” he said. “This is well below what is acceptable. Anything below two hours is acceptable.”
Caprock is also currently trimming trees which will help cut down on outages, Biggerstaff said.
In other business, the Council received a new police operations manual from Chief Phillip Pannell.
“A new manual is long overdue for police personnel,” Pannell said.
The manual includes portions brought in from the Coppell and Lewisville’s Police Departments.
“They both seem to have well run departments, and I really respect their chiefs,” he said.
While looking over the new manuals, Mayor pro tem Paul Kelly asked Pannell if e-mail procedures were included.
“They fall in the city personnel manual which each new employee receives when they begin working for the city,” Pannell said. “They have to sign for both manuals.”
City Manager Alan Hein stated that he is in agreement with the manual’s adoption.
In a unanimous motion made by Councilmember Billy Long and seconded by Kelly, the manual was approved.
In the police department report, Pannell said there were 12 arrests during the month of January, 489 calls for service, 25 cases cleared, 17 sent to the district attorney’s office and 177 citations issued.
“We have also purchased stop sticks for two of the squad cars,” Pannell said. “They are used to try and end dangerous pursuits.”
During the fire department report, Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Lisman said the department responded to 38 calls in the city during January, 28 calls in the county and two mutual aid calls, one for a grass fire in Princeton and one for a structure fire.
The Council also called the next election for May 9 and designated March 15 through 19 as Poison Prevention Week.
Share This Story:
