Harrison City Council Concludes Trash Talk

Harrison cracks down on trashcans left at the curb too long.

The Harrison City Council met on Thursday evening for their regularly scheduled full council meeting and adopted an amendment to Harrison’s Clean Premises Ordinance.

A few months back Mayor Jerry Jackson said he had received complaints about city residents leaving their Orion trash receptacles at the curb for multiple days or all week long between scheduled pick-up dates. This amendment aims to change that by limiting the time people can legally leave their receptacles at the curb. 

Under the ordinance trashcans cannot be moved to the curb prior to noon the day before their scheduled pick-up date and must be removed from the curb no later than noon the day following their scheduled pick-up date.

The council had passed two readings of the ordinance, which requires three total to be passed, with more lenient restrictions. Under the previous version of the amendment cans could not be moved to curb more than 24 hours before the pick-up date and had to be removed no later than 48 hours after the pick-up date. The Resources and Policy committee heard public input at the committee meeting earlier in the month that indicated giving a four-day window for cans to be placed at the curb and removed was too long.

The discussion ended with the committee asking for the language of the amendment to be changed to its current form.

At the full council meeting Mitch Magness moved to suspend the rules and place the ordinance on its third and final reading in its revised form without further input. Magness said, “Surprisingly the comments I’ve received are that people are more in favor of this being a nuisance ordinance so to speak … I don’t see why we wouldn’t just go ahead and adopt it on the third reading.”

The council passed the new ordinance with a unanimous vote.