Community Beautification & Waste Management Services

 

Summary of Services

Community Beautification and Waste Management Services (CBWMS) provides garbage collection, bulk/yard debris, and recycling services to over 74,000 service points, including residential and commercial. In addition, the department is responsible for maintaining 17,800 acres of city-owned lots, cemeteries, and rights-of-way along major roadways within the city.

Community Beautification

Part of the General Fund, Community Beautification provides maintenance and design services for landscaped rights of way within the City, mowing of City-owned lots and rights of way, and litter control. The division removes high-risk trees and limbs, clears trees and debris from the road after storms, and maintains the six City-owned cemeteries.

 

Waste Management (Solid Waste)

Services provided in Waste Management include:

  • Weekly residential curbside garbage and recycling collection   
  • Biweekly residential   curbside collection of bulky items, yard waste, and white goods
    • Weekly garbage and recycling collection for small to medium volume commercial customers utilizing roll-out barrels
  • Garbage collection   for large volume commercial customers utilizing front-end loading dumpsters up to six times per week,
    • Garbage collection for large volume commercial customers utilizing roll-off or multi-lift containers up to five days per week
  • Recycle collection for large volume commercial customers utilizing front-end loading dumpsters, roll-off, or multi-lift containers   up to five days per week
  • Open gate service for a fee when requested by commercial establishments who utilize front-end loading dumpsters
  • Sanitizing commercial containers to minimize pests and odor for a fee on request
  • Electronics collection by request, picked up every Thursday
    • Special Collection service for a fee when requested by a commercial or residential customer
  • Removal of dead animals from the right-of-way and street
  • Street sweeping on a regular rotation along City curb and gutter streets.

 

Awards and Honors

Community Beautification and Waste Management has received numerous awards and honors:

  • First City-owned LEED Green Certified Building
  • National Arbor Day Foundation’s Growth Award for Arboricultural Excellence (ten consecutive years)
  • Tree City USA recognition (33 consecutive years)
  • Outstanding Partnership Award from Recycle Florida
  • Distinction Innovation for Green Building Award from Florida Planning & Zoning Association
  • Best Practice Award from Sustainable Florida
  • Excellence Award from MLK Foundation
  • Bronze Marketing Award and Silver Excellence Award for Communication from the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA)
  • IME Advisory Council Award and Industrial & Manufacturing Engineers Career Support Award from FAMU/FSU College of Engineering

 

Community Beautification

FY26

The FY23 budget included an increase of $266,000 for increases in contractual services to support City staff in their mission; this funding has continued into FY26.

 

FY27-30

Community Beautification will continue to provide landscaping maintenance and mowing of City property and rights of way, litter control, graffiti removal, trimming and removal of fallen trees in the right-of-way, and maintenance of City-owned cemeteries and vacant lots. The addition of Blueprint landscape projects on the Northeast Gateway and the Airport Gateway, along with FDOT's installation of landscaping along Capital Circle Southwest, will create increased demand on Community Beautification staff. 

 

Waste Management (Solid Waste)

FY26

  • The fund is self-sustaining and is funded with monthly service fees. 
  • Solid Waste rates are reviewed every three to four years to ensure cost recovery over the planning period.
    • If needed, and with Commission approval, rates are adjusted in response to increases in tipping fees by Leon County. 

 

FY27-30

The City completed a rate study for the Solid Waste Fund in FY23, and the rates went into effect at the start of FY24.

 

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Strategic Objectives

Target 2.1.3i - Enhance partnerships with community re-entry programs

Target 4.2.4 - Recycling participation rate by volume

Target 4.2.5 - Number of residents participating in the Cash for Trash program

Target 4.2.6 - Number of high-risk trees addressed

Target 7.2.3 - Number of Southside beautification projects completed

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