By Rusty Nixon Correspondent
PLYMOUTH — Some limits on trash are one step closer for the city of Plymouth.
The Common Council of the city passed a second reading of an ordinance that will limit the amount of trash per week for residents.

The maximum amount of trash will be the equivalent of what will fit in three 33-gallon containers. The council held off on third reading of the ordinance to clarify whether the containers could also include 33-gallon trash bags.
Questions arose about several other possibilities —  such as whether or not residents who forgot to take their garbage for collection in a particular week would be able to take extra to the curb the following week and the extra refuse created at Christmastime.
Councilman Don Gardner also brought out the fact that limiting the amount of trash that would be picked up was in essence mandating recycling, which in fact, costs the city more money.
Better education for residents about recycling was also a point of discussion.
In other council news:
• The city voted two monetary appropriations.
The first was to make the city’s monetary contribution to the work that will be done on Pine Road/Pioneer Drive, by the county. The city’s portion of the renovation cost of extending Pine Road/Pioneer Road from U.S. 30 all the way to S.R. 17 will be around $190,000.
The project has been undertaken by Marshall County and will be supported by funds from the Indiana Department of Transportation. The city money will go for road construction and right of way land purchase between Jim Neu Drive and U.S. 30. The cost of the renovation south from Jim Neu Drive will be covered by Marshall County as part of the negotiations for the construction of the new Marshall County Jail.
The second appropriation will go towards the purchase of a new police car to replace one totaled in a collision in March. That car was totaled responding to an emergency on Oak Road when a car southbound on the road near Markley Drive turned into the vehicle spinning it around.
• Mayor Mark Senter officially commended the members of the Plymouth Police and Fire Departments for swift response to the fire last week on Michigan Street in Plymouth’s downtown.
Senter praised the swift action that “…prevented a potential disaster…” saying that there was little doubt that the officers and firemen involved had saved an entire city block from being destroyed.
Fire chief Andy Metsker agreed that the firemen involved “…did a terrific job on that fire.”