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Good Morning Councilmembers*
Please do what you can to keep rates for solid waste and yard waste where they're at for the dump. Especially, the garbage rates. Maybe you could raise the yard waste rate only up
to $10. Seems the rate hike is 'going for the throat'!! Doing this so people won't come as often is a poor excuse for this rate hike. People already don't go to the dump anymore
than they NEED to - trust me!
I've always brought my garbage to the dump for 37 years - every two weeks. When they upped the minimum to $10 (Not all that long ago!), I changed my ways to only need to go once a month.
I'm ONLY able to do this as I have a freezer I put all my stinky/critter attracting food waste in to store it 'til dumpday. Still, I'm waaaay below the maximum waste weight. Two
weeks would be max time to hold onto stinky garbage without a freezer to keep it in!
It'd take a vehicle much bigger than my Toyota Pickup truck to bring in enough garbage to reach to maxium weight as it is now at $10.
Making folks hold onto their garbage to make it worth paying $20 for 800 lbs. would cause all kinds of stinky/rat attracting garbage for many personal households and neighborhoods.
And, as has been mentioned, it would most likely create much illegal dumping due to pissed off citizens.
Maybe, instead of putting the cost on the customers who are already getting nickel and dimed out of the ability to live around here, forego contributing millions for this new Port Townsend
recreation center/athletic club/new swimming pool/ and just hire someone so that the dump can open on Mondays again.
**Speaking of garbage, who do I talk to to have the garage can moved from RIGHT BESIDE THE SITTING BENCH on PT Water Street park plaza right across the the Museum door of City Hall??
It's so gross and smelly most of the time. It makes sitting on that bench very unappealing and disgusting. Please, if you have the power, have that garbage can moved away from right
there against the bench! (Besides, garbage is often overflowing off the lidtop onto the bench!). Then it'd be such a pleasant place to perch again!
Thank you~
Joni