New CP Center

Yesterday was a good day for the North-East side.

Mayor Schmitt, Alderman Dan Piton, Police Chief Jim Arts, and neighborhood association presidents joined to announce the third community policing center in Green Bay. This center is located at 807 N. Irwin Avenue in the Olde North Neighborhood. It is expected to be ready for operations in May of 2010. The Mayor also announced a 3.65% drop in violent crimes from August to August and during that same timeframe a drop in property crime of 7.26%. The Mayor sited the importance of neighborhoods in keeping the city safe.

It'll be great to have officers walking the neighborhood next summer. We need to maintain the progress toward safe and healthy neighborhoods made over these last few years and keep improving.

New Green Bay Recycling Guidelines

In anticipation of the coming single stream recycling and carts, Green Bay stopped enforcing the "city container only" rule. It wouldn't have been fair to make someone buy a bin and then charge them again for a cart.

Now that both bins and carts are available, Green Bay Public Works has started to again enforce the recycle bin requirements. You must have one city bin or cart. The 18 gallon bins are $15, the carts are $48. Call 448-3100 for directions on how to get yours. Here is the new policy recently passed unanimously by the Common Council:


a) Continue to work with City residents, to make sure they substantially comply with City recycling ordinances.

b) Maintain the option of City-issued 65-gallon recycling carts and City issued 18-gallon recycling bins, with no other recycling container size options offered by the city.

c) Allow the use of multiple recycling bins. Residents can use non-City issued recycling bins for overflow recycling as long as they first fill one (1) 18-gallon City-issued recycling bin.

d) Allow the use of paper bags as recycling overflow containers for paper and cardboard recycling, when used in conjunction with 18-gallon recycling bins.

e) Prohibit the use of paper bags as overflow containers for co-mingled recyclables (i.e. – aluminum, glass, tin, plastic, etc.) under all circumstances.

f) Allow the use of multiple City-issued recycling tipper carts at the same residence. Residents can only use City-issued recycling tipper carts for the cart option, due to durability concerns of store-bought cars.

g) Prohibit the use of laundry baskets and trash cans as recycling containers.

h) Conduct a review of the solid waste collection ordinance and propose changes to make it consistent with the current recycling program.

I have a cart and it's great to just break down boxes and throw them in with the cans and bottles. If you are interested in getting a larger cart, you can order it online here.

The way to win a debate...

...is to promise to obey the laws, not promise you'll break them.