COUNCIL DELAYS TWO-BAG TRASH LIMIT

The Cape Girardeau City Council voted 4-3 Monday night to delay implementing a two-bag or two-can trash limit for a year.

Councilman Richard Eggimann said the move would discourage residents from recycling.

But city staff said the delay would allow more time to determine base pricing and the prices for additional bags or trash stickers.

Melvin Gateley, J.J. Williamson Jr. and Eggimann voted against the postponement. Mayor Al Spradling III and councilmen Tom Neumeyer, Melvin Kasten and Jack Rickard voted for it.

Eggimann said city officials shouldn't worry that the public might perceive it as a tax increase. "I don't think that the two-bag limit is a tax."

Eggimann said implementing a volume-based billing system is a good idea and would help keep down trash costs.

The measure approved by the council will delay the move until July 1996.