DANVILLE — Aldermen face a final decision Tuesday on the future of garbage and yard waste pickup in Danville.

If aldermen don't approve the latest five-year solid waste plan that includes increases in monthly garbage and other fees, then city administrators won't be going back to the drawing board, they'll be making decisions on what services to cut.

"We just don't have time for that any more," said Mayor Scott Eisenhauer, in reference to drafting a new proposal if the current one is voted down Tuesday night. "We need to make an immediate decision in regard to the yard waste program."

If the proposal is not approved, he said, he and other city administrators would make decisions based upon the amount of funding allocated by the council and decisions on what aspects of the program will remain in place.

Aldermen have been rehashing the future of the city's solid waste program since October, and at Tuesday night's meeting, they will vote on the second five-year proposal city administration has brought to them.

The city council meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers in the lower level of the Robert E. Jones Municipal Building, 17 W. Main St., Danville.

Last week, the city council's public works committee, which includes half of the aldermen, recommended the plan by a 5-2 vote.

Under the plan, the city's garbage pickup and yard waste pickup services would stay the same, but some fees would increase, including the monthly garbage fee from the current $18 to $23.50 by the fifth year. The annual yard waste sticker would increase to $25 this year and to $40 by the fifth year, and the number of free large garbage set outs would be reduced and fees for subsequent large set outs would increase.

Even with the additional revenue generated by the fee increases, the plan still calls for cutting the number of solid waste employees from 16 to 14 to keep projected expenses within the projected revenue stream.

The plan calls for hundreds of thousands for capital purchases, mostly associated with yard waste, including a new landscape yard waste site, where all the waste would be dumped and processed. The plan also calls for purchasing new equipment to process the yard waste. The city's current landscape yard waste site is leased by the city for an annual fee from the privately owned Brickyard Landfill south of Danville.

However, officials with Allied Waste, which owns the landfill, have told city officials that they need the space being leased by the city, so the city must vacate that area by 2013. That requires the city to purchase property for a new site and build it according to environmental regulations. It means a major financial commitment from the city to keep the program as it is now, which includes spring and fall leaf and debris pickup for all households in the city and additional pick ups between May 1 and Sept. 30 for those households that buy the additional yard waste sticker each year and put it on a toter for bimonthly pickup.