QUINCY, IL - After much controversy during the past few months, Quincy's city council finally reached a consensus Monday night about the future for recycling.
To bring you up to speed, the council adopted an ordinance that would allow Quincy residents to opt-in to a recycling program for five dollars a month starting in May.
Last week, Alderman Tom Ernst said the city owes that service to its residents and moved to draft an ordinance to eliminate the opt-in program.
Mayor Kyle Moore tabled Ernst's ordinance indefinitely Monday night.
Now, residents who have chosen the opt-in program will have a new decal on their current orange recycling bins.
It will serve as a visual cue to recycle crews to pick up your recycling.
Moore says right now the city is seeing about a hundred people on average a week sign up.
Mayor Moore said a four-dollar public safety fee will sunset this May.
That takes the charge off resident's utility bills.
He says the five dollar a month fee for the opt-in recycling program should be a wash for Quincy residents.
This isn't the end of the road for recycling talks though.
Crews will revisit the measure in six months and then a year to see how the program is going.
Moore said if Quincy residents want this program, they need to sign up or a different plan will be put in place or even eliminated.