Cole Stallard speaks during a budget hearing Friday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]

The Department of Streets and Sanitation’s 2024 budget is proposed to grow by 10.6 percent, up to $344.7 million, and alderpeople on Friday largely heaped praise on Comm. Cole Stallard and the department’s work to haul trash, eradicate rats, build up the city’s tree canopy while keeping up with tree maintenance and starting a new composting program.