Aldermen continue to work to make the city’s recycling program better, with plans laid to improve the success of a drop-off recycling location at the Willard Street fire station.

Using money allocated in the budget to buoy the city’s recycling efforts, Ward Six Alderman David Phillips said he and the recycling committee would like to erect signage and install a camera at Fire Station No. 2.

City leaders recently pulled a drop-off recycling bin at Central Fire Station do to garbage, litter and animal carcasses that had been left in and around the bin and fire station.

Things seem to be still looking a little cleaner at Fire Station No. 2, though participation isn’t as high as at Central Fire Station.

“There are very little problems at Willard Street,” Phillips said.

The Ward Six alderman hopes that signs and a camera will help keep the Willard Street location largely problem free.

Ward Five Alderman D.W. Maxwell emphasized the number of calls he’s received lamenting the loss of the recycling bin at Central Fire Station.

Phillips indicated that if signage and the camera prove promising in controlling abuses, discussion might be able to take place about putting a bin back at the more popular location.

As to continuing efforts to educate citizens about the Brookhaven recycling program, Phillips said Waste Pro has begun a count of households participating in the curbside recycling pickup program.

That count should aid aldermen in focusing education and publicity about recycling in areas of the city where participation isn’t as high.

Ward Two Alderman Terry Bates, who sits on the recycling committee along with Ward Four’s Shirley Estes, emphasized the need for citywide cooperation.

“We’re going to have to have help from everybody,” he said. “We’ve come too far to lose what we’ve got.”

Mayor Les Bumgarner also took a moment Tuesday night to recognize Brad Boerner for his service to Brookhaven as city prosecutor.

Aldermen appointed Boerner prosecutor in 2006. However, he was subsequently appointed a youth court judge in 2011, and Bumgarner said the law deems that a conflict of interest, prompting Boerner’s decision to resign his prosecutor’s post.

At their previous meeting, aldermen appointed Joseph Durr to fill the prosecutor’s post.