Denison's trash crews could soon be running newer equipment. The City Council will consider buying three solid waste trucks for $1,026,650 when it meets at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, at City Hall, 300 W. Main St.
The Solid Waste division now runs three automated residential trucks and three brush and bulk trucks, all of them heavily used, according to a memo from Assistant Public Works Director John Phillips. The purchase through a cooperative contract with Mack/Volvo Trucks of Waco would add two new side-loading residential collection trucks with 33-cubic-yard bodies and one brush truck with a 28-cubic-yard body and a grapple.
Staff says all three are available for immediate delivery. The trucks were budgeted as a capital purchase for fiscal 2027 and will be financed.
Surveying the old neighborhoods
Also on the agenda is a $40,000 contract with Preservation Texas to inventory historic buildings in four parts of the city. The city won a Certified Local Government grant through the Texas Historical Commission and will be reimbursed $20,000. Six firms answered the city's call for proposals.
According to Main Street Director Donna Dow's memo, no formal survey has ever been done of Denison's residential neighborhoods, and the downtown commercial historic district has not been inventoried since 2017.
The memo says growth is putting development pressure on the central city, where many of the oldest homes and commercial buildings sit, and that without a current inventory the city risks losing significant buildings before they can be considered for protection.
