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Let someone else take out the trash
Published Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Outsourcing the city’s garbage collection should stand as a no-brainer.
The trucks are shot. The city’s voters just passed a $12 million bond issue. In that bond issue was an item that would see a new garbage truck purchased.
But why?
The Selma City Council Public Works Committee has talked about this time and again. The council has heard from at least one interested party, who said he’d do the job for about $1 more than folks are paying now. Additionally, he’d offer a little better service than we get for our own tax dollars. If people didn’t pay him, he’d cut them off.
The city is carrying heavy chits from residents, present and past, who did not pay their garbage bills. Attempts to clear up the red ink have failed.
Time is money, especially in this case.
The city needs to put the garbage collection service up for bids and award it to the lowest and best. The emphasis should be on the best here.
To waste any more time pondering the garbage issue is almost criminal.
Advertise. Take the bids. Award them.
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Posted by eyeonyou (anonymous) on November 5, 2009 at 8:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree. Why keep throwing money into a hole that will never fill up. A majority of people around here have a mentality that services are supposed to be handed to them for free. Let an outsource garbage business deal with it. If you don't pay for the services, YOU DON'T GET THE SERVICES. For the scumbags that don't pay their bills, THEY are the ones making everyone else suffer.
DO the right thing and get the CITY out of this huge loss!!!!
Posted by Bg (anonymous) on November 5, 2009 at 9:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The only problem is, if the private entity stops picking up trash it will quickly becomes a MAJOR Public health issue.
The City of Selma should MAKE money off of Garbage collection. If the city is loosing money at $12 a month, CHARGE MORE, it is pretty simple.
The Garbage should of never been taken away from the Water bill... If people don't pay it then their water will be turned off and locked, trash still gets picked up... If they still haven't paid it by the end of the year then the balance plus LATE FEES, should billed as a lien against the property, Still dont pay it you loose your property. PERIOD. PROBLEM SOLVED.
Posted by chewbacca (anonymous) on November 10, 2009 at 12:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)
the question is why did the city amass a million dollars in uncollected garbage bills TWO different times? Instead of changing the way everything is done, change the people who do not do their jobs. Why are the people in the collection department not collecting? I have heard stories upon stories about checks given for deposits and bills that were NEVER cashed, or took months to cash. If bills are behind they need to get on top of it immediately and not wait to have a million dollars worth of $12 a month bills. What is that about? Why not have someone competent to collect taxes, licenses, and fees in that office. But then, that seems to be the burning question for several offices in city hall. I hope mayor will wake up. It is sad.
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