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2041 College Street
Milan, Tn. 38358
Street Department 731-686-1611
Landfill 731-686-1341.
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Contact David Zarecor
Our office is located at 2041 College Street, just one block off the Humboldt Highway (79 South).
Our staff consists of the Public Works Superintendent, a Foreman, a Secretary, and 21 workers.
The office is open Monday through Friday, 7am - 4pm.
We are closed for lunch from 11:30 - 12:30.
Responsibilities of Public Works Include:
1. Keeping the streets in good repair and clean. This includes scheduling paving, patching potholes, street sweeping, removing hit animals and loose trash, cleaning up from wrecks or spills, salting icy areas in winter and maintaining curbs.
2. Maintaining property drainage for rainwater. This includes cleaning ditches, installing and keeping clear culverts and drains, and posting flooded areas in the event of danger to traffic.
3. Maintaining right-of-ways for safe driving. This includes mowing, cutting back brush and removing low-hanging limbs.
4. Picking up leaves in the fall along the edge of the street.
5. Maintaining communications between City residents and Waste Management. Call our office to report missed garbage pick-ups, report trash piles at the street, request commercial sanitation start-up and changes in service, get information on schedule changes, or have a garbage cart delivered to your home.
6. Maintaining the landfill to monitor what goes in, keep it clean, and be sure we follow all EPA guidelines while servicing area residents.
7. Being of service to the entire City when needed. We help in areas of setting up and cleaning up for City events (parades, festivals, etc.), transporting various needed supplies (chairs, tables, flowers, etc.), picking up commodities, providing trash pick-up for City housing and charities, and transporting Christmas decorations and flags for holidays.
Other Key Words For Further Information:
sidewalks
driveways
POLICY FOR CURB CUTS
Street curbs are cut for residents to create or widen driveways. Individuals or contractors are to contact the Street Department before attempting to cut the curb. The Street Department does the work required themselves. The responsible party is charged $50.00 for each opening made up to 25 feet regardless of circumstance (new or established drive). An additional $2.00 per foot will be charged for wider openings.
POLICY FOR CULVERT INSTALLATION
Any person desiring to install a culvert must contact the Street Department prior to purchasing or installing any culvert. The Street Department determines the length and type of culvert required for that particular area.
For new driveways, the owner is responsible for purchasing the culvert and the Street Department will provide materials and labor at no charge.
For new culverts, culvert replacement or widening a driveway, the property owner is responsible for the cost of all needed materials and is not charged for the Street Department to install it.
POLICY FOR MOWING
The City of Milan Municipal Code, Chapter IV Section 8-407, requires “every owner or tenant of property to cut grass and other vegetation commonly recognized as weeds on his property, and it shall be unlawful for any person to fail to comply when it has reached a height of one (1) foot.”
Mowing will not be done without property owner’s permission with the exception of work orders from the Building Inspector. Any property not complying with the Municipal Code above may be inspected and the owner notified to correct the problem. After a reasonable amount of time, a work order may be issued to the Street Department and a bill sent to the owner. Any unpaid bills are added to the property taxes.
NOTE: City mowing is done with bushogs and grass is not as short or smooth as a lawn mower gets it.
POLICY FOR LEAF PICK-UP
Residents may rake their leaves out to the edge of their yard to be picked up by the Street Department. Leaves should not be in the ditch as this poses drainage problems nor should they be in the street as this causes a traffic hazard. Leaves are picked up by ward and wards are rotated for equal opportunity to all residents. Leaf pick-up begins at the end of mowing season (the week before Halloween) and continues on an as-needed basis until mowing season begins again the first day of April. There should be no limbs or trash in with the leaves as they may clog up the suction hose on the leaf machine.
Leaves may be put in bags or boxes at any time and put out with regular residential garbage for Waste Management to pick up. This is the only way of disposing of leaves after mowing begins in spring.
POLICY FOR SPECIAL PICK-UPS
Special pick-ups consist of anything the City hauls for individuals or businesses. Most requests are forwarded to Waste Management as it is part of their contract to pick up any larger items and household trash (with the exception of building materials) at no extra charge to residents. If the request is from a commercial customer or is urgent, we give them the option to have us pick it up at a charge. Our basic charges are as follows:
$25.00 per dump truck load OR $50.00 per larger (trash) truck load with a $25.00 minimum PLUS landfill scale fees of $22.50 per ton to residents (with a City sticker).
In some instances only the truck fees are charged eliminating scale fees.
For example the local housing authority only pays truck fees when excess furniture is picked up.
The City of Milan’s policy is that any contracted tree workers must haul their own brush. If they do not, the owner is responsible to clean it up - not the City. Special Pick-up charges apply if the City hauls it.
During the Ice Storms of 1994 & 1998 residents were not charged scale fees for any brush they hauled to the landfill themselves. We did not charge for picking up brush from tree damage. Any tree toppers were told to haul their own brush or inform their customers that there would be a charge for the City to haul it. We did not include scale fees due to the nature of the situation. In most cases a certain amount was determined storm damages and was hauled without any charges.
POLICY FOR GARBAGE CARTS
Each household will be provided a Waste Management cart for garbage. Any city residence with services from the Milan Department of Public Utilities is paying sanitation automatically. One 90 gallon garbage cart is supplied with the services from Waste Management.
The cart belongs to the address; any time you move you should leave your cart at that address. If your cart becomes damaged, you should call our office to have it repaired or replaced. Your new address should have a cart when you arrive. If not, call our office to request one (if you are still within the city limits).
The cart should be at the edge of the street by 7:00 a.m. the day of pick up. Any cart not at the street will not be emptied. If you have a disability and are not able to pull the cart to the street, request a form from City Hall or our office. Your doctor must fill this form out and sign it verifying your disability. The form must be returned to the address at the top (City Hall) for your services to begin. Only after the form has been received will Waste Management pick up your garbage at your house.
POLICY FOR LANDFILL CHARGES
The Milan Landfill is located on Gold Medal Road off the Trenton Highway and is open to the public Monday through Friday 7:00 - 3:00.
Any city resident may take acceptable materials from their home residence to the landfill at no charge as long as they have a city sticker on the vehicle they bring out to the landfill. Any contracted worker may take materials out to the landfill at a charge of $22.50 per ton.
Industrial waste is accepted at $30.85 per ton. Any rental property is considered a for-profit business and will be charged $22.50 per ton.
Acceptable waste consists of burnable material; i.e. any wood such as limbs and lumber, and demolition materials such as roofing and concrete. We cannot accept any type of hazardous chemicals, tires, liquid paint, or household garbage.
Waste Management will pick up your household garbage and reasonable amounts of limbs and other trash. Waste Management does not handle any type of building materials.
Things our landfill cannot accept include: paint, oil, tires, and batteries. Waste Management cannot accept these items in your household garbage. There are alternate solutions:
1) Any retailer selling batteries must accept old batteries and dispose of them.
2) Many service stations that change oil will accept your waste oil.
3) Waste Management will set up a temporary dumpster for your remodeling/construction needs. For pricing information call 1-800-356-2924.
4) Gibson County Agricultural Extension Service (Agriplex) in Trenton has an annual Solid Waste Removal Day where paint and other toxic substances may be disposed of. The next one will be advertised. For more information call 855-7656.
5) Building materials such as dry wall/sheet rock may be taken out to the landfill.
6) Paint that is completely dried up can be picked up by Waste Management.
For further information you may call the Milan Street Department at 686-1611 or the Milan Landfill at 686-1341.
POLICY FOR SIDEWALKS
When the City deems it necessary to install a sidewalk, the Street Department installs AND maintains the sidewalk at the expense of the City.
When the individual requests a sidewalk, it is their responsibility to pay for materials AND maintain the sidewalk in the future. Any future owner of the property assumes this responsibility.
POLICY OF DRIVEWAY INSTALLATION & MAINTENANCE
The City is responsible only for the surface of the driveway immediately over the culvert and connecting the street. The City is in no way responsible for installing or maintaining private or business driveways. The City will not contract any work for installing or maintaining driveways; this is the responsibility of the property owner. (See the policy for culvert installation for further information on culverts).
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