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Post by rocket on Apr 12, 2014 11:34:43 GMT -6
www.facebook.com/pages/AM-1250-WSPL/131098106953812AM 1250 WSPL Yesterday at 6:53am · . The electronic recycling program that occurs every year in Streator may come with a cost. At Tuesday's Committee of the Whole Meeting, City Manager Paul Nicholson said that each event will cost between $8,000 and $10,000 with the group ATR. That cost would incorporate a small fee into city waste bills, but it would keep the recycling program to Streator residents exclusively. Nicholson stated Waste Management is also looking to come up with a contract that would keep the program free. Why should we pay a fee? We drop this stuff off to them,we don't get any money from them. They get all this stuff free to them,take it back to their company and then sending it to another facility that pays this company for this stuff. This fee is nothing more then our city digging deeper into the taxpayers pockets for nothing.
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Post by dog on Apr 12, 2014 13:57:26 GMT -6
www.facebook.com/pages/AM-1250-WSPL/131098106953812AM 1250 WSPL Yesterday at 6:53am · . The electronic recycling program that occurs every year in Streator may come with a cost. At Tuesday's Committee of the Whole Meeting, City Manager Paul Nicholson said that each event will cost between $8,000 and $10,000 with the group ATR. That cost would incorporate a small fee into city waste bills, but it would keep the recycling program to Streator residents exclusively. Nicholson stated Waste Management is also looking to come up with a contract that would keep the program free. Why should we pay a fee? We drop this stuff off to them,we don't get any money from them. They get all this stuff free to them,take it back to their company and then sending it to another facility that pays this company for this stuff. This fee is nothing more then our city digging deeper into the taxpayers pockets for nothing. I would hope the city could find someone to provide that service for free. Shouldnt your anger be directed at the company? The COMPANY is not giving you any money for it, the COMPANY is sending to another facility so the COMPANY can get paid. The city isnt making anything off of it either, but is paying for its cost. What would you do if you were the city to recover that $8-$10,000 expense? |
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Post by Blue Star on Apr 12, 2014 21:34:04 GMT -6
"Waste Management is also looking to come up with a contract that would keep the program free."
If WM is looking @ a "Contract" how could it be FREE?
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Post by WT Huck? on Apr 13, 2014 4:44:36 GMT -6
I would much rather see a user fee at the time of dropoff rather than a total flat spread of the cost to everyone. Maybe some folks will not need the service on a yearly basis. This "fee" sorta sounds funny to me....Plenty of scrappers would pay the city to GET the escrap not the other way around.....
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