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ENNIS Town Council is to spend an additional € 45,000 in street cleaning activities next year.
Town Manager Ger Dollard explained that the closure of the Ballyduff Beg landfill facility would impose an extra cost on the council.
In a report at last night’s annual budget meeting, Mr Dollard stated, “The council operates a very exten- sive street cleaning arrangement to ensure that the streets throughout the town area achieve a litter free status. This is important in context of the annual Tidy Towns competition and in the consideration of other competitions such Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) league. The closure of the Clare County Council landfill site at Ballyduff Beg presents difficulties for the overall management of waste collected through street cleaning and other activities of the council.
“The unavailability of landfill at Inagh results in the council having to enter into alternative arrangements to ensure waste collected from its various activities is properly managed, segregated and ultimately disposed of, or recycled, as appropriate. This imposes an additional cost to the council and I have found it necessary to provide further sum of € 45,000 in the budget for 2012 over that pro- posed for 2011.”
The council has also made a provision of € 20,000 to cover ongoing maintenance costs of CCTV.
Mr Dollard stated that CCTV had proven very beneficial as a deterrent to anti-social behaviour and as a protection to people and property.
He continued, “During 2011, substantial progress was made on linking many of the CCTV networks to the system operated by An Garda Síochana. Such an approach increases the benefit to be gained from the overall system. The equipment utilised, however, is continually evolving technology and does require improvement and upgrading from time to time. It is necessary, therefore, that the council make provision for the ongoing maintenance costs that arise on CCTV. Accordingly a provision of € 20,000 has been made in the draft budget.”