Fox Point Will Offer Free Wood Chips Again This Spring

Free woodchips will be available for resident use again this spring.

Village Engineer Scott Brandmeier said that the village has not kept track of how much of the woodchips have been used in the past, but did document that 146 people came to the site and collected woodchips.

This service costs the village $1,155.28 to be open for eight weeks, between April 23 and June 11, from 9 a.m. to noon. The woodchips come from the pruning and maintenance of trees around the village, that are then recycled into woodchips for residents to use in gardens and landscaping projects.

Trustee Beverly Bell suggested that the board consider a new site and self-service of the woodchips in an effort to eliminate the cost to the village. Village President Michael West reminded the board and Bell that to move the chips to another site, while eliminating the need to pay employees to keep the yard open, would incur an additional expense to truck the woodchips to the new site.

The board passed the motion to make the free wood chips available again this spring with only one nay vote from Bell.