Great news ! Going automated is cost effective, efficient and will reduce physical injuries to workers.Well done.

good idea... just dont go with the yellow cans , these things are ugly enough with out yellow cans lining the street

Great. I thought our budget just went through but it looks like we got a $3.7 million dollar increase after all.
I assume we will be laying off workers to offset the cost since we won't need as many to pick up the recycling?

As far as laying off workers with the automated recycling of trash: there is only one man on the truck at present. But it will definetly be a lot faster and more efficient.

I for one am delighted at the automated pick-up of the recycling

Doesnt mattter to me, My husband brings the recycles to the recycle center, We have no place to store them & I dont want them sitting outside waiting for animals to get into them

When recycling is picked up now there is only one employee on the vehicle. It's time the Township enforce the recycling laws. Do check on the regular garbage cans each
weekly pickup there is always cardboard items sticking out. It's funny how the residents see this and complain to the Administration but nothing is done.
It's also time for the Township to get back to Quality of Life issues - dirty streets, overgrown properties(residential and commerical as well as State and properties maintained by the Township, noise and basement dwellings. Also when are the streets going to paved and the sewer's be looked at. The only time the Township does anything about a sewer depression's is add another speed hump. Please Mr.Acropolis and Mr.Pezzares please address the problems of our Community. This once great Township has really changed under your watch,

Seems to me...
Brick is making a $3.7 million investment to save/make "MAYBE" $300,000/yr.
This would never fly in corporate america..
And you wonder why Brick has sooooo much debt.. $130million and counting (not including the solar deal)
all those revenue neutral and revenue positive things never came to fruition... ie. EMS.

The Administration and Mayor have been addressing every concern of the Brick taxpayer..how can anyone complain..I guess they feed on chaos and garbage..thank you Mayor for moving us forward into 2012 an beyond..just saying

Vandals have destroyed areas of Arrowhead Park, they've committed break-ins at Drum Point Sport Complex, they've damaged the skate park near Emma Havens, they've burned garbage cans and park benches at Windward Beach, etc..., etc... BUT, WHOA!! PEOPLE ARE PUTTING CARDBOARD IN THE GARBAGE CAN?!?! This has to be stopped now ;-)

There they go! Mr Ducey and his spend and spend clown fest.

Keep in mind only a est. 10% of what is put into recycle center are actually recycled.

Bond = Debt = Slavery

Wake up people !

what difference does it make how much is spent or made the taxpayers never see a difference except taxes going up or stay level, never a decrease. All the "money making schemes" i.e., red light camera's, solar panal's at town hall, and on schools, windmill, if all these things produce revenue why haven't we seen a tax break? Get rid of the high paying salaries and maybe, maybe we might see a break, LOL .

I recall the Dem's saying we will come in and cut taxes during there run to take over..hummmm what happened ?? ALL I SEE IS INCREASES IN SPENDING..

I hate to admit it...
I have to agree with Thulen and Sholty to a degree...

So much for putting Brick on road to fiscal responsibility... spend, spend, spend...

And I'm a repub that voted for the 4 Dem's... can you say 1 and Done!!

In my neighborhood there is 1 worker in the robo-truck for regular trash pick-up, and 2 workers in the recycling truck, 1 drives the truck, the other one jumps out, picks up the recycling can, dumps most of it in the truck, (some of it on the ground), gets back in the truck, & goes. BTW, both drivers like to speed down the streets & run through stop signs.

I don’t see anyone here looking at this clearly, all the initial work was done by the mayor and the past council not the new council the new council jumped on the band wagon and started to patting each other on the back for what SPENDIONG MORE MONEY I am still looking for my tax cut (LIERS), as I have stated before new faces same old POO. I do happen to like this idea but not this year we can’t afford it, it will take many more magazine subscriptions to be cut to pay for this!

I think a big reason why so many residents do NOT recycle is because they are just too darn lazy and selfish. They are simply too lazy to separate the cans and bottles from the regular trash, so they put everything into one bag.
It is so obvious who does not recycle now because these residents NEVER have anything out on the curb on recycle day. I don't think we need recycle police going through everyone's garbage. But come on, the person in charge of this department needs to start enforcing the law! The workers know exactly who these people are; so start fining these people and do it now! These lazy people are costing each and everyone of us more money by flouting the law. (I won't even get into the detrimental environmental aspect.) Finally, I'm not so sure these people will start doing the right thing simply because the town is now providing them a new container.

We went from being threatened w/ privatizing (sp) now we're gong ROBO?

Several points. How about it's the right thing to do.Also some cost savings will come because recycle pickup will be every other week.And maybe we can sell the old style trucks.If you are really concerned about spending come to the meetings and let another voice be heard.

Geeze, Why am I not suprised. Mr Ducey and his merry band of spendthrifts misfits. Hope these four clowns are done in one term.

Normally every morning the township runs 8 recycling trucks and 9 garbage trucks.. Some mornings recycling and garbage gets reduced to 7 and 8 due to guys calling in sick n what not.. What kills me; these baby public work guys complain and complain about how hard the work is, but they always everyday manage to leave at 12pm. These guys get done with their routes at 9:30 dump by 10:45 and sit around for over an hr to wait to go home. Before u switch over to automated recycling, make the Dpw guys stay till 2:30 and increase the routes. Recycling truck route needs to be reduced from 8 trucks down to 4 and instead of an area being picked up every week it gets picked up everyother week. This 12pm rushing to get out, speeding and running stop signs needs to stop. If your gonna spend $ for trucks at the tax payers expenses; lower the work force..

I recycle every week and watch the trash guy drop stuff and then kick it into the street and move on. Lazy! I then have to clean up after this guy. Fire them all and replace them with machines that do the simple job of picking it up and putting it into a box. The entitlement is disgusting.

Short memories people have. Way back in 2008, Acropolis brought up the topic of robo recycling, that was his reasons for the lay offs at that time. Since then the topic has been brought up over the last few years.

So let's stop with all the R and D BS. If this will make more money (we do get paid by the county for recycling) then let's so it. The only thing I ask is that the public is given the real numbers, not the fuzzy math of those at town hall. They should list this proposal on the towns web site and let people do the research to find costs/and saving for themselves.

@squanto274: your not suppose to put trash in your recycling can.

@BW: yeah and if only a cow could grow wings, fly and deliver milk to the needy children in Lakewood.

I hope this does not have the same limitations to cans like the regular garbage has. I recycle alot! and i mean alot. Last week i had almost 6 garbage cans out there. I have a large family..i know with garbage you can only have 2 cans and you have to pay for the second. well i have plenty of cans now, so i will not be excited about spending money for new ones.

@jessica: this won't be the case. The town will charge you for each can and probably not make it a big deal w/having more then two cans because the town is making money from ur material, pluss the can that's prob gonna cost 85 bucks.

awesome! Atleast I dont have to worry about the moron who collects ours now. Always moving my can 4-5 houses down or takes my can and i have to call up and complain and it magically turns up the next day out of no more.

Jan Else,
Either way you look at this sitiuatuion if we keep our DPW we will need to purchase new equipment to replace the equipment that has not been responded by the current Administration. Or you go with the Mayors proposed budget and you dispand the DPW Department and we pay out of our pocket for garbage and recycling fees. Either way we go we will have to pay.

i am so glad Duceys family has full health beenfits paid by the Brick Taxapayers

WOW!!!!! Stop the blame game. Geez.......Didn't some of you get it? If we went with the mayor's budget we would have to pay out of our pocket for garbage,recycling,and bulk pickup. By his own words that would save the average taxpayer $240 per year. Do you think we could get a private company to do all that for $240 or less? What about the roads, and the snow removal? Did you really want to deal with a private company? I get great service from the DPW. They are respectful and helpful. Would we get the same service from a private company?

Sorry for the soapbox. Sure there are things that I am not happy about, but this is not one of them.

Sorry JD, but I guess we can agree to disagree. I have relatives that have private garbage collection, and one is with waste management. They both have some pretty big issues with them

JD, how did you get a quote from them?? I called them up when i heard what was going on here, and they said they couldnt quote bc they arent in brick yet. They needed to wait on what was going on at the time before they could. I think its safe to say it would have been more then 240 a year.

I called several companies and got a LOT of different prices and such. The BEST quote I got was $125 a quarter/$500 a year. That didnt include bulk which would be anywhere from $50 on up, per pick up, depending on what it was and how much there was.

So the $240 Acropolis quoted would cover 6 months of pick up. By going robo, we can cut down on costs, and dont forget Brick gets paid by the county for the recycling they take to the county recycling plant.

Will we saved the jobs of 77 d.p.w. workers and cut 170,000.00 in budget ..But did you see our trucks at the road show or in papers..they are a mess condition wise..so we are going to have buy new ones soon or repair which is going to cost millions over a period of time ..And who is going to pay for that taxpayers..so we are going to get screwed again in time ..So contracting out isn't a bad idea talking business sense..So we are going to let them spend more money..tax cut for home owners will never happen..We are Screwed !!!!

JD: I can a week.....is that the size we have now and is it automated? Also JD $4 a bag for grass clippings? Well I have a 75x100 lot. I have 3 trees on my lot. However my neighbors have man trees. I have kept count on how many bags I use......I myself rake and bag 65 bags in the Spring and 65 bags in the fall/winter. that would amount to $480 alone.......

Bring the leaves to ridge rd..free..or give someone some $$ to drop them off for you ..still cheaper and dont have to wait for pick up's..simple ..

One more thing Brick resident82. : I am 70 years old, and it takes me a a couple of weeks to bag the leaves, and then I have to drag them to Ridge Road? give me a break.

Didn't mean to offend you Catherine ..so a couple of weeks to do 65 bags take them over time ..better then 65 x4$= $260 bucks..and better than a tax increase to buy many new trucks..either way we will pay..Good for you at 60 and out there raking up the leafs .Good Bless You...

Just another sick joke. How much are the Vendors kicking back to people who came up with this idea? Do we really need robo cans and trucks to pick up empty bottles and empty cans? Are they that heavy? I have never seen more than one person on a recycling truck in the 12 years that I am here, so what will we be saving? So, please stop the insanity and do more with what you have. Ever thought of running 2 shifts a day with the same equipment?

@big-daddy, mrgrumpass: too bad both of you aren't paying my salary any longer.. I do not work for brick Dpw any longer, so before you two dip your noses in; learn your facts and stop being a political hack talking out your ass. Sorry the truth hurts and people at dpw and townhall are finally under pressure from having their cards peeped.

What's really gonna be the challenge is getting green briar, seview village and lions head to switch over to automated.

@mrgrumpass: lol! Get my ip address from Dan, find out who I am; once you do that then look me up in the pension system and shush..

@big-daddy: just because I don't work at dpw anymore doesn't mean I'm not union. Also there is a thing called civil service idiot.. Your still paying my unemployment tho :)

LoL fired? Hah! And what's a bon Mott? If I was fired I would of lost my pension and civil service seniority you political hack.. Try again troll..

My parents still live in Brick, I moved to Toms River, and the new Robo Recycling cans are great. They are as large as the grey garbage cans. They actually reduced the recycle pickup from every week to bi-weekly, since the super large size they fit quite a bit, the only issue I have is cardboard tends to fill it quickly, so braking down the boxes is a must. After the first six months of operation the town sent a letter with the savings in operation, and the additional revenue generated from all the extra recyclable materials they made money on. I cant recall the exact amount but it was about a half million in just six months. I think this is a great idea.