ASK THE MAYOR - NOVEMBER 2010

Dear Mayor Reynolds,

What is the City’s holiday schedule and how will it affect my trash pick up?

All City of Bainbridge offices will be closed on November 25 and 26 for Thanksgiving, December 23 and 24 for Christmas Holidays, and on December 31 for the New Year’s Holiday.  Since these at the end of the week, your household garbage collection should not be affected. 

However, for holidays that do fall on a Monday (like Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday in January), everyone’s trash pick up is pushed back a day.  So if your garbage is usually collected on a Monday, but the City is closed on Monday, your garbage will be collected on Tuesday.  If your garbage is usually collected on Tuesday, it will be picked up on Wednesday.  Generally, commercial pick up is not affected for a Monday holiday.

With the extra garbage that is sure to pile up with the upcoming Christmas holidays, the City’s Public Works Department will be placing dumpsters at Bainbridge Public Safety on

Shotwell Street

and at the Public Works department on

Pierce Street

for the public to use.

As always, all garbage collection information is posted on the City’s Channel (Channel 17 on cable), on their website http://www.bainbridgecity.com/ and on the City’s new blog, http://www.bainbridgecity.blogspot.com/.  If you ever have a question about your garbage pick up, check one of these!

Sincerely,

Mayor Reynolds