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anyone get wood chips from their village?
Ours will deliver a full 10 yd load for free......but we have to sign a waiver releasing any responsibiliy of any materials organic or "inorganic" objects may be in the load.
The chips/organic material (as they call it) comes from the curb side brush pick up that they do in our village.
So I am kinda leary about what everyone puts out to get picked up.
BUT we do need to cover about 1000 sf of area at the bottom of our retaining wall and that will cost too much if we have to buy decent stuff.....and we are not planning on being in this house more than 1 more year. So we are just trying to get everything tidied up.
BUT the kids will most likely end up digging and playing down there......because, well, it is dirty! 
Oh what to do, what to do.....
Re: anyone get wood chips from their village?
I've done it in the same kind of situation you describe: you need lots of ground coverage, and it's not in a place where you need the mulch to look manicured. Yep, free truckload from the city.
It *does* have all kinds of weird junk in it. And it sprouts things. A LOT. So you have to weed it or you'll have a serious mess in a couple of weeks.
We've gotten free village mulch before. It's a self serve you have to haul it away type of thing over here. We did find small amounts of trash in the mulch like a few random shredded plastic bags and the occasional metal object but nothing to really be concerned about. You should see all of it as you're spreading and moving the mulch. We have stopped using the free mulch though because of the invasive seeds that tend to come with it and the fact that we have a lot of black walnut in the area which can mean adding juglone to our garden if the mulch is not aged properly. We also now only get cedar mulch because it takes longer to break down and needs to be replenished less.
I would definitely use it on an area that big. If you're concerned about the look I've heard of people using the free mulch for the bottom 2" of a new bed and topping it off with 1" of nice mulch to get a consistent look between their beds.