MARSHALL — Lyon County will be going into negotiations with West Central Sanitation for a curbside recycling service contract, county commissioners voted this week.

The county is looking to have a contract in place that would continue recycling pickup every other week, starting in April.

At Tuesday’s county board meeting, Lyon County Environmental Administrator Roger Schroeder said the county had received proposals from three solid waste haulers — Southwest Sanitation, Waste Management and West Central Sanitation.

“All of them met the parameters we had in there,” Schroeder said. He recommended that the county enter negotiations with West Central.

Their proposal had a monthly cost of $28,525. The annual cost comes to $343,300, Schroeder said.

Lyon County’s current contract for curbside recycling pickup, with Southwest Sanitation, ends this spring. On Jan. 5, commissioners approved a request for proposals that would keep the pickup schedule at every other week, and on the same days it is collected now. The contract would begin the week of April 4.

The request also included an optional additional proposal, where haulers would allow the county to deliver recyclables from community drop sites to a tipping floor provided by the hauler.

Commissioners voted 3-0 in favor of entering into contract negotiations with West Central Sanitation. Commissioners Steve Ritter and Gary Crowley abstained from the vote.

Curbside recycling was a topic that generated some controversy in 2019. When the county received higher-than-expected bids for curbside pickup, commissioners said they would consider alternatives. After many county residents spoke up in support of continuing curbside recycling collection, commissioners approved a contract with Southwest Sanitation for biweekly recycling pickup instead of weekly. That contract ran from November 2019 until April 2021.