City officials are stressing, changes coming to the brush pickup program are not going to be an end to the program.

Monday night at the Clinton City Council meeting, the Council put on file proposed changes to the program and Commissioner of Public Improvements, Ken Buchanan, stresses these are changes to make the program more efficient.

Come the thick of winter, the brush pickup program will be suspended as city crews are dedicating much of their time to tree removal.

Buchanan points out, during the leaf cleanup season, leaves will not be required to be bagged up, however, again asks those be at the edge of the road, not in the road itself. That season kicks off October 1.