Chapleau Council approved thousands of dollars in repairs to the local garbage truck.
During their meeting this week, Council authorized a purchase order of more than $29,000 for repairs by Cervus Equipment Peterbilt - something Mayor Michael Levesque says comes after the Township noticed "a lot of repairs" were needed for the refuse truck over recent months.
Levesque notes - while the truck's out of service - the Township's needed to rent a truck from Toronto at the cost of $7500 a month, but says that was the closest and cheapest option available.
The mayor also says it isn't "feasible" to simply replace the truck at this time, as it is only in its sixth year out of a ten-year life expectancy, and a replacement would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.