After months of discussion and contemplation Delphi City Council members adopted a $10 fee for trash removal for 2009 at a special Monday night meeting. Residents will be billed for the service on their water bills beginning the first of the year. The Solid Waste Ordinance will be presented to the council for passage at a special meeting set for Dec. 22 at 5 p.m.

The consolidated dispatch inter-local agreement with the county was approved. Delphi Mayor Randy Strasser said duel telephone service will exist between Dec. 29 and Jan. 9. After Jan. 9, all emergency calls will be transferred to the county.

The city will pay two police officers for vacation time they were unable to use before the end of the year.

Strasser said copies of the updated city personnel manual will be available at the next meeting.

Council member Brian Garrison extended an offer of help from the council to clerk-treasurer Janice Roe and asked for suggestions on how council members could make her job easier. Roe said her office needed a part-time person at least to help with telephones and customers which would then allow her the opportunity to focus on other city duties. She said her goal was to have a more private office in which to work.