"We have a challenging budget year, next year. We're going to be in service preservation mode as a council,"
"The thousands of carts that are lost every year and scattered across sidewalks and parks and our trails and waterways are not just a visible quality of life issue for our residents, not just an eyesore, but they actually really damage the environment,"
San Jose evaluated hiring a company to retrieve and return abandoned grocery carts. A $32,000 pilot from August to November recovered 734 carts in targeted areas. Scaling the program citywide is projected to cost $686,000 annually and could retrieve more than 12,800 carts each year. Fee revenue from grocers could allow the retrieval service to recoup costs, though hundreds of thousands of dollars in upfront expenses raised concern given a challenging municipal budget. State regulations previously limited cities' ability to charge retrieval fees, but Senate Bill 753, signed in October with backing from San Jose, loosened those restrictions.
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