The Mills Elementary PTA is sponsoring a candidates’ forum for those seeking seats on the AISD Board of Trustees for District 7 and At-Large District 9.  The forum will be held Wednesday, April 7 at 6:30pm in the Mills Elementary School cafeteria at 6201 Davis Lane.  The event is open to the public.  The forum will be a Q/A style  with questions taken from the audience.  Two candidates are vying for District 7: Incumbent Robert Schneider and former AISD administrator Warren Faulkner.  Five candidates are vying for District 9:  Tamala Barksdale, Cassandra Enoch Brown, Julie Cowan, Dianne T. Mendoza, & Mike Reed.

Large Brush Collection will begin April 12, 2010 for the Westcreek Neighborhood. Branches over 3 inches in diameter and up to 15 feet long are collected during specially-scheduled large brush collections. Large brush must be at the curb in front of your house by 6:30 a.m. on the first day of the scheduled collection week(s).

Large brush should be stacked, unbound, in one row along the curb with the cut ends facing the street. The row should be no more than 15 feet long and four feet high. Anything beyond this amount will not be collected unless you have made prior arrangements to pay additional fees.

Large brush will not be collected if it’s inaccessible. Place your large brush about five feet from your garbage cart and other potential obstacles such as mail boxes, fences, walls, water meters, telephone connection boxes and parked cars. Avoid placing large brush under low-hanging tree limbs or power lines.

Solid Waste Services cannot collect the following items during large brush collections:

- Bamboo, cactus, vines, rose bushes or vegetation with thorns. (These can be included with your weekly yard trimmings collection. Cactus, rose bushes and thorny branches should be wrapped in cardboard or several layers of newspaper before being placed in a reusable container or paper yard waste bag on your yard trimmings collection day.)
- Yard trimmings (grass, leaves and small branches)
- Garbage
- Bulky items

• Web Site: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/yardbrush.htm

Residential Bulk Collection:
Guidelines

Place bulky items at the curb in front of your house by 6:30 a.m. on the first day of your scheduled collection week.

Separate items into three piles as described below:

1. Metal items, including most appliances (doors removed), should be put in one pile. These are taken to our Landfill Diversion Center for recycling.
2. Passenger car tires should be put in a separate pile to go to a tire recycling facility. Tires must be removed from the rims and there is a limit of eight per household. We cannot collect truck or tractor tires.
3. Non-metal items, such as carpeting and nail-free lumber, should be placed in a single pile. These items go to a landfill.

Because these piles are collected by different trucks, they may be collected at different times throughout the week.

To prevent damage to your property, keep items five feet away from your garbage cart, mailbox, fences or walls, water meter, telephone connection box and parked cars. Do not place any items under low hanging tree limbs or power lines.

Do not put items in bags, boxes or other containers. Bulk collection is for items too large to fit in containers. Bags will be treated as extra garbage and are subject to extra garbage fees.

• Web Site: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/bulkyhow.htm, http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/bulkyhow.htm