Just like fuel prices, groceries, loan rates, and the state gasoline tax, the cost of weekly trash collection in the town of Crothersville is also going up.
Residents inside the town limits should be prepared for a $1.50 rate increase to $12 a month beginning January 2023 following the action of the Crothersville Town Council at their November meeting last Tuesday.
The 14.25% rate increase (higher than the national rate of inflation) was attributed to increase costs from the town’s trash collection & disposal company, Rumpke.
The council voted 3-0 to approve the rate increase. Council member Terry Richey and Aaron Mays were not in attendance.
Attempting to allay complaints about the rate increase, councilman Jamy Greathouse pointed out that Rumpke charged over $30 a month for trash pick up outside the town limits of Crothersville.
“ While no one likes to pay more, our trash collection fee is still lower than if you did not live in town,” he said.
Crothersville residents receive a single bill for multiple town services including water, sewer, trash pick-up, recycling, and storm water.
In other matters, the town heard an initial proposal from Dennis Boley for spraying for mosquitoes inside the town limits. Boley said that he does similar contract work for Scott County and Jennings County Health Departments and the spray, a derivative of chrysanthemums is effective on adult mosquitoes.
“It will kill adult males but it is the females that do the biting,” he said.
He said he charges between $300-$400 per application “but that is dependant on what you want or need and the cost of the chemical,” he said.
The council took no action but agreed to continue talks with Boley after the first of the year when insecticide.
•The council set no parking hours from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. at the new town parking lot in the business district of Armstrong Street.
With the addition parking, the council also agreed to pursue having INDOT make the east side of Armstrong Street (US 31) no parking to alleviate traffic congestion south of the stoplight.
•The council learned that 19 applicants for the recently applied for owner-occupied housing rehab grant have been received. According to Tara Hagan of ARa, the town’s grant writing firm, the state is to announce those communities who were awarded grants by the end of November.
•Agreed to install and take down banners honoring local veterans through a project of the Ft. Vallonia DAR. Families of veterans would cover the $120 cost of producing the banner, according to DAR spokesperson Ruthann Rebber. The council agreed to get an inventory of available poles and brackets along US 31.