The village’s chipping program will remain despite its increasing cost, officials said.
In a 3-2 vote last week, commissioners agreed to keep the 2-year-old program, which allows residents to receive wood chips at no cost and lets homeowners dispose of yard waste at a cut rate.
The program cost the village an average of $22 a carload in 1992. Residents pay only two $1.50 yard-waste stickers a carload and four stickers a truckload of brush dropped off at the village’s chipping site near Belmont Road.
Last year, the program cost the village about $28,000. Residents using the service paid about $15,800, officials said.
Despite decreasing use by residents and opposition to the program by Mayor Betty Cheever and Commissioner G. James Kmetz, a resident outcry was apparently enough to persuade Village Council members to keep on chipping.
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But the program’s reprieve could be shortlived.
“This isn’t the end of this discussion,” Cheever said. “It will come up again.”