Pine Bluffs Town Council approves rate increase for town's garbage system

Monday night's town council meeting opened with a discussion of resolution 2019-08, the garbage rate adjustment that was introduced several weeks ago. As mentioned in previous articles, the garbage system here in Pine Bluffs has been operating in the red for quite some time, and as a last measure council has approved a small rate increase to help pull it back into the black. Although there has been some talk about possibly privatizing, most feel that this would only succeed in causing an even larger rate increase than the one proposed.

With the passing of this resolution, the current rates for...