City commissioners promised to be deliberate in making any changes to the city’s trash system, as sanitation workers filled City Hall on Tuesday evening.

After hearing multiple concerns from employees of the city-operated trash service, commissioners directed staff members to prepare a report outlining different options for changing sanitation operations.

Commissioners left the idea of perhaps privatizing the service as an option, but said they by no means were convinced that was the direction the city should go.

“I just want to see some information about what our options are,” said Commissioner Rob Chestnut, who asked the commission to discuss the future of the trash service.

City Manager David Corliss said it would take multiple months for staff members to develop a “menu of options” for future trash service changes. That report then likely would be presented to a task force that would provide feedback.

Corliss said the report could include discussion of new technologies for trash trucks, rate changes to charge people based on how heavily they use the system, and perhaps even mandatory curbside recycling.

Corliss expects to provide an update on how the report is progressing by the end of the year. Trash issues have come to the forefront at City Hall after landfill rates have increased by about 30 percent and after Deffenbaugh Industries began operating an aggressive curbside recycling program in Lawrence earlier this year.

l In other City Hall news, street parties near the Oread hotel may not become the next new tradition on Kansas University gamedays.

Commissioners were told that last Saturday’s street party event at The Oread — 12th and Indiana streets — went fine. But now hotel leaders say they’re not sure they’ll do the parties during each home game.

Hotel general manager Nancy Longhurst said last weekend’s event showed that people primarily were interested in celebrating inside the hotel or on the hotel’s many terraces and patios.

As a result, the hotel has canceled the street party event for this Saturday’s football game, although indoor activities will be available. Longhurst said the hotel will notify the city and the neighbors if it plans to hold another outdoor event in the future.