Penfield residents deserve a seasonal leaf pickup service. Every autumn, families and neighbors spend hours bagging and hauling leaves by hand, doing hard work that takes time, energy, and money. Penfield is the only town on the Eastside that does not offer this basic service, and it is time for our town to catch up.
A town-wide leaf pickup program would make life easier for residents, help keep streets and yards cleaner, and modernize town services in a practical way. This is the kind of improvement that benefits the whole community, especially people who do not have the time, tools, or physical ability to handle piles of leaves on their own.
We are gathering signatures to urge the Penfield Town Board to purchase the necessary equipment and launch a town-wide seasonal leaf pickup service. We want autumn 2026 to be the last season Penfield residents are expected to bag leaves themselves.
Join your neighbors and support this needed upgrade for Penfield. Let’s get this done.
Updates
We are doing great!
October 26, 2026
Thanks to all of you for signing this petition. It would be wonderful to get to 100 or more signatures. This is certainly the time of year when leaf bagging is a big thing on people’s agendas. It would help a lot if you could share the petition with neighbors and friends to gather more signatures. Let’s go for 100 or more. And then, on to the Town Board!
We are making progress
September 17, 2026
We have 23 people who agree that they want Penfield to establish seasonal leaf pickup. That’s a great start. Please consider forwarding this petition to your neighbors. I also am thinking of organizing a door-to- door petition drive during the leaf cleanup season. Please let me know if you would be willing to help. The comments in Next Door have been eye-opening. I think that previous town administrations have tried so hard to squash this idea that a lot of misinformation has gone around. I hope that we can convince this administration to conduct an unbiased investigation into this issue and report back to the community. Thanks so much for your support.
20 Comments
It's just not economical top pay someone to come get them and it is also very labor intensive to remove them. Everywhere else has leaf pickup. It's time to get this done.
I’m an older woman who has to take my own leaves and can’t afford to have someone take them away for me. I don’t even know where I would drop them. I pay the same taxes as the other towns.
Not only will this help residents, especially those who are not physically able to rake and bag their leaves, it will also reduce the use of bags.
I spend hours bagging leaves in the fall while our neighboring towns all have curbside leaf pickup. Please consider this amenity for our town
It's a service that should be included with the taxes we pay!
Because leaves suck.
Penfield should follow Webster's example with free leaf collection and free mulch made with the leaves.
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Penfield residents deserve a seasonal leaf pickup service. Every autumn, families and neighbors spend hours bagging and hauling leaves by hand, doing hard work that takes time, energy, and money. Penfield is the only town on the Eastside that does not offer this basic service, and it is time for our town to catch up.
A town-wide leaf pickup program would make life easier for residents, help keep streets and yards cleaner, and modernize town services in a practical way. This is the kind of improvement that benefits the whole community, especially people who do not have the time, tools, or physical ability to handle piles of leaves on their own.
We are gathering signatures to urge the Penfield Town Board to purchase the necessary equipment and launch a town-wide seasonal leaf pickup service. We want autumn 2026 to be the last season Penfield residents are expected to bag leaves themselves.
Join your neighbors and support this needed upgrade for Penfield. Let’s get this done.
Updates
We are doing great!
October 26, 2026
Thanks to all of you for signing this petition. It would be wonderful to get to 100 or more signatures. This is certainly the time of year when leaf bagging is a big thing on people’s agendas. It would help a lot if you could share the petition with neighbors and friends to gather more signatures. Let’s go for 100 or more. And then, on to the Town Board!
We are making progress
September 17, 2026
We have 23 people who agree that they want Penfield to establish seasonal leaf pickup. That’s a great start. Please consider forwarding this petition to your neighbors. I also am thinking of organizing a door-to- door petition drive during the leaf cleanup season. Please let me know if you would be willing to help. The comments in Next Door have been eye-opening. I think that previous town administrations have tried so hard to squash this idea that a lot of misinformation has gone around. I hope that we can convince this administration to conduct an unbiased investigation into this issue and report back to the community. Thanks so much for your support.
20 Comments
I’ve lived in several towns over the years and this is the only one that doesn’t provide this service, and it has the highest taxes of everywhere I have lived. We cannot burn them, so we should have a reasonable alternative. This may be a fake narrative, but I have heard it was said that the reason is that not every home owner has mature trees so it makes it unfair. I also do not have any children, but I pay my school taxes every year without objection.
It's just not economical top pay someone to come get them and it is also very labor intensive to remove them. Everywhere else has leaf pickup. It's time to get this done.
I’m an older woman who has to take my own leaves and can’t afford to have someone take them away for me. I don’t even know where I would drop them. I pay the same taxes as the other towns.
Not only will this help residents, especially those who are not physically able to rake and bag their leaves, it will also reduce the use of bags.
I spend hours bagging leaves in the fall while our neighboring towns all have curbside leaf pickup. Please consider this amenity for our town
It's a service that should be included with the taxes we pay!
Because leaves suck.
Penfield should follow Webster's example with free leaf collection and free mulch made with the leaves.
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I’ve lived in several towns over the years and this is the only one that doesn’t provide this service, and it has the highest taxes of everywhere I have lived. We cannot burn them, so we should have a reasonable alternative. This may be a fake narrative, but I have heard it was said that the reason is that not every home owner has mature trees so it makes it unfair. I also do not have any children, but I pay my school taxes every year without objection.