Can a city save money selling trash bags?
Posted at 1:33 PM on August 13, 2010 by Nancy Lebens (0 Comments) Filed under: Local government finance Can the city of Red Wing help relieve budget pressure by selling trash bags? That’s one of the ideas residents have offered — on the public library’s white board, on the city website and by phone — when the city asked how it could save money. The phone survey is still going on and will feed information into budget hearings at the end of the month, but at least a few interesting threads have emerged so far. Like cities across Minnesota, Red Wing is bracing for continued squeezing as it prepares its budget and property tax levy for 2011, and it is asking residents for help. A couple of responses from the Red Wing’s web survey compiled August 5 suggest ways to reward those who those who throw less away. Here’s one that seems simplest: One very successful method of reducing cost for consumers is to sell Red Wing Trash bags. The trash service only collect city purchased bags, low trash
