Garbage fuel surchage passes village board vote

Garbage prices for Village of Clearwater residents will see a 75-cent increase, retroactive to June 1.

During the June 13 monthly meeting, trustees learned Bud’s Sanitary Service notified Village Clerk Angie Hupp about a “temporary 75-cent per gallon fuel surcharge.”

“We don’t have an amount when it will go away. She said until diesel is at least under $4 a gallon,” Hupp said.

A week later, Bud’s management personnel asked if the village had renewed its contract with the company. It expired in February.

“She had forgot to send it (then),” Hupp added.

The new contract calls for a 50-cent increa...