Day-Care Rules Tightened Council Also Oks 6 A.M. Start For Collection Of Garbage

Day-care providers face more rigorous rules before being licensed in Coeur d’Alene.

The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to expand the scope of criminal background checks potential providers undergo. The council also added indecent exposure to the list of convictions that make people ineligible for day-care licenses in the city limits.

The city looks at convictions within the past 10 years.

The council also gave garbage haulers approval to come calling an hour earlier. Waste Management, the city’s contract garbage hauler, asked to start hitting homes at 6 a.m..

Because the city is growing, it’s becoming more difficult for the company to cover its routes when it begins at 7 a.m.

The 6 a.m. start-up is a trial run. If the city receives enough citizen complaints, garbage pickup will again start at 7.

In other business, the City Council rejected a request to rezone a portion of Fruitland Lane as commercial. The parcel, north of Nieder Avenue and just west of U.S. Highway 95, now has a mobile home park.

Several residents of that park earlier protested the rezone. Last fall, they told the Planning and Zoning Commission that allowing commercial development on the land would force them to move mobile homes too old to reasonably move.

, DataTimes