Neighbors Celebrating Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity While Speaking Over The Digital Fence
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Its not Lakewood though is it?Stephen Eisel wrote:http://www.wayneusa.com/images/Curbtender_Brochure1.pdf
Easily achieving
800 to 1,000
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The Truck!Shelley Hurd wrote:Its not Lakewood though is it?Stephen Eisel wrote:http://www.wayneusa.com/images/Curbtender_Brochure1.pdf
Easily achieving
800 to 1,000
cycles per day!
Hugs to your father Gary and wish him a Merry Christmas for me.Gary Rice wrote:Ironically, and as so often is the case,
Those most impacted health-wise by this type of thing could probably not even GET DOWN to City Hall tonight to speak to this issue.
I do understand that the Mayor plans reasonable accomodations. I get that.
That's fine for now. But what about FUTURE administrations?
These "accomodations" however, will not stop many people from moving those things, who should not be moving them at all.
This is a terrible thing to do to our city. If indeed, this deed is done.
I'm no authority, but I think you could ask any medical doctor whether ANYONE over 50 should do heavy moving in this weather.
I hope someone speaks up this evening. It won't be me. I've a Dad to look after right now...
This could be an issue either way...Steve can you assure me and the rest of Lakewood’s residents that this isn’t just Phase 2 in the outsourcing of the refuse collection?
Stephen Eisel wrote:This could be an issue either way...Steve can you assure me and the rest of Lakewood’s residents that this isn’t just Phase 2 in the outsourcing of the refuse collection?
I did not know that..Shelley Hurd wrote:Stephen Eisel wrote:This could be an issue either way...Steve can you assure me and the rest of Lakewood’s residents that this isn’t just Phase 2 in the outsourcing of the refuse collection?
Thank you for your candor Steve. Sad, really really sad whats happened and is going to continue to happen to this city...Heartbreaking
Do you know if the refuse department property is being considered for the site of the new jail the Mayor plans on building?
Can you say definitively it is not a site that is being considered or will be used?
I was at the council meeting tonight. The Mayor specifically stated the discontinuance of backyard pickup is not going to lead to privatization. This is not a road he wants to go down. He also stated that if they wanted to go private, they would not be making an investment in automated trucks. He said they looked at it last year it’s not where the city is going. Councilwoman Antonio remembered the conversation and agreed that privatization is not in the best interest for the City. She felt that service would deteriorate if went private.Shelley Hurd wrote:I'll ask you yet again or any of the others who have the inside scoop from city hall
Steve can you assure me and the rest of Lakewood’s residents that this isn’t just Phase 2 in the outsourcing of the refuse collection?
Discontinuing apartment service does not increase the cost per household. Yes, the denominator is decreasing but so is the numerator. There will be fewer employees needed. There will be less trash hauled. There will be less trash dumped. The cost associated for each of these activities will be decreased.Shelley Hurd wrote:Phase 1 was implemented on 12-01-08 when the apartments had to hire their own private refuse collection. Thus upping the over all cost per households for refuse collections.
i.e., cost was 14.01 per household in 2007-2008 with service to @ 26,000 households/units
Now after removing the apartments from the service list the there are about 21,000? And the cost per household/unit of service will greatly increase. Thus giving the Mayor a reason to move to privatization based on increased cost
Did you see in the Green Refuse Initiative pdf on page 4 that Lakewood has 28 packer trucks, 32 cushmans and 3 misc trucks. That’s 63 vehicles. Also on page 4, it says we have 43 employees in R&R. On that ratio, every employee has about 1.5 vehicles to drive. I can understand there should be a few extra vehicles due to repairs, but this is a little high. Don’t you think? How many families of four have six cars?Shelley Hurd wrote:Phase 3..selling off our current fleet of (most ) Cushman’s and packer trucks?