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Harrisburg has used Penn Waste’s recycling facility since 2014 but did not previously pay for recycling.ĭue to recent federal trade disputes with China, however, consumers across the country are now paying for a service that waste management companies traditionally offered for free.Īs the world’s largest importer of recycled goods, China took the American waste industry by surprise earlier last year when it announced a temporary ban on all American imports, claiming that they contained too many contaminants-non-recyclable plastics and food waste that made their way into recycling bins. Harrisburg will start paying a new fee for single-stream recycling in 2019, but ratepayers won’t see any changes to their municipal waste bills.īeginning in January, Harrisburg will pay trash collector Penn Waste $40 for each ton of recycled paper and plastic taken to its materials recovery facility, where refuse is sorted, baled and prepared for export. Allatt declined to describe the specific changes council sought.

$250,000 to complete the 3rd Street repaving project, which was delayed last year by heavy summer rains.Īs of press time, the council budget vote was scheduled for Dec.

$270,000 for landscaping and construction to complete the MulDer Square revitalization project.

$345,000 to repave two miles of Riverfront Park’s lower river walk, a segment stretching from Maclay Street to Shipoke.

$517,000 to construct new sheltered bike lanes and a traffic circle on N.

$2 million in new equipment for parks maintenanceĪn additional $2.5 million in the proposed budget would allow the city to finance its share of grant-funded transportation projects.

$250,000 to outsource the demolition of abandoned buildings.

$2.5 million for the acquisition of a new public works building.

The mayor’s original capital spending plan called for $4.8 million in spending from the Neighborhood Services fund, including: 18 that the administration would not budge on those proposals, or grant council’s requests to amend capital spending plans.

The budget was the subject of almost eight hours of public hearings in December, when council members raised questions about proposed salary increases and the reorganization of city hall departments.Ĭouncil budget and finance chair Ben Allatt said on Dec. The mayor’s $70.8 million balanced budget called for slightly less spending than last year, flat tax rates, and more than $7 million in capital improvement projects. The seven-member council voted unanimously to table the budget bill proposed by Mayor Eric Papenfuse in November. Harrisburg City Council last month delayed a vote on the 2019 municipal budget, citing unresolved disputes with the mayor’s office over spending proposals. Tag Archives: Echelon Insights December News Digest Decem| by Lawrance Binda and Lizzy Hardison