County Makes Big Investment In Bear Resistant Garbage Cans

    The Lake County Commission on Tuesday approved the expenditure of just over $500,000 toward the purchase of fully automated bear-resistant trash cans. With funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the county's own landfill fund, the allocation will pay for an estimated 1,600 cans to be used throughout the county where bear/human interactions are most prevalent.
   The project is expected to continue in the future with additional allocations as are available in the county’s budget.
   “Subsequent fiscal years expenditures will be funded through the Landfill Fund and will not exceed each fiscal year’s available budget,” wrote county contracting officer Bill Ponko in a brief. Currently, the county expects to spend between $107,000 and 117,000 on the project in coming years.

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