Services
The City of Donnellson contracts yearly for the collection of solid waste. This contract includes a weekly pickup of garbage, a ‘spring clean up’ and a Christmas tree pickup in January. Residents pay a base monthly rate for service, which allows the placement of two garbage units for each weekly pickup. A garbage unit may be a plastic bag or a commercial manufactured garbage can with a lid, not to exceed 33 gallons or 50 pounds. Anything over the amount allowed must have a Donnellson garbage bag tab attached in order for it to be picked up. The tags are available at the City Hall and at participating retailers. All garbage is hauled to the GRRWA facility in Fort Madison.
The City also provides recycling bins at the City Hall for the disposal of plastics, newspapers and magazines, cardboard, and clear glass.
Donnellson Public Library
Donnellson Public Library has been in operation since 1938. It has been housed in several locations throughout Donnellson, but now has a permanent location at 500 Park Street.
The Public Library is open 6 days a week (total of 45 hours per week). It is also open for two additional hours per week in the summer for kids’ programming. The library currently has 5 part-time staff members which include 1 Library Director, 2 Assistant Directors, 1 on-call substitute librarian, and 1 custodian.
The library is a popular materials library, which currently has 15,600 catalogued holdings. The library offers the public books, magazines, music CD’s, and videotapes for checkout. The library has a local and family history room which houses a collection of genealogical materials. The library also offers several services such as a summer reading program for children, a story hour for preschoolers, an adult book discussion group, and lessons in genealogy from the library’s volunteers.
The facility has 4 computers with Internet access, 2 card catalog computers, a photocopy machine, and 2 microfilm readers for patron use.
From the 1,860 registered patrons, 49 percent reside outside of Donnellson. The City of Donnellson provides approximately $17.50 per patron each year for its residents. Lee County provides only $4.10 per year for the patrons who live in the rural areas surrounding Donnellson.
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