Spring Clean-up event in Quesnel gone?

Via HQCariboo.com:

Quesnel City Council has declared the week of April 22nd as Spring Clean-up Week but will it be the last ?

The cost of last year's clean-up was $38,460 and City staff has suggested that Council explore discontinuing the service in 2014.

City Manager Byron Johnson says the city is moving to a controlled landfill where people with heavier loads exceeding 350 kilograms of unsorted materials are expected to pay so he says it doesn't make sense that if they save it up for a year the city will come nad pick it up for free.

Johnson says they want to move away from that in the long run and he says they want to put people on notice that this year it's the same but for next year they will consider eliminating it.

In the end it will be a Council decision however and one councillor who says he definately won't be supporting it is Shushil Thapar.

He (Thapar) says the city already eliminated a Fall Clean-up Program.

Thapar says Quesnel can learn from Surrey where they started charging people for pick-up and the end result was garbage on the streets that the city eventually had to pick up anyways.

Council, at the suggestion of (Councillor) Ed Coleman, will hold a workshop on a number of different budget refinements, including this one.

Coleman says he would prefer to discuss all of them rather than one at a time before bringing them forward for public review and discussion.