From The KC Infozine we learn of the latest insult to local dignity and yet another reason to move to the suburbs: Kansas City, Mo., Public Works Department has announced the cost for Excess Trash Tags will increase from $1 to $2, effective July 1, 2010. Originally announced as part of the City's budget process in early spring, the rate change helps offset the cost of excess trash collection. The City requires an Excess Trash Tag be placed on each bag of trash that exceeds the City's two bag limit.
On the bright side: Trash tags purchased prior to July 1 are still valid and only one is needed per excess trash bag.
On the bright side: Trash tags purchased prior to July 1 are still valid and only one is needed per excess trash bag.
How many tags will it take to clean out the failed mayor's office? Is THIS where we can be happy about the so called "two for one" deal?
ReplyDeleteI elect TKC to fish out the shoes from underneath the furniture.
I don't know how these charges compare to other cities, but it doesn't sound terribly bad.
ReplyDeleteObservations of someone who works but doesn't live in KC:
I don't know the reason (although I suspect a lack of personal pride), but many KC neighborhoods are covered with trash.
Trash bags seem to sit on the side of the road for long periods of time. Is pickup not on schedule?
Also, it would be good if people would put their trash in cans rather than just in bags. KC has a lot of loose running dogs (another issue for the city that works?), and they and other factors probably result in bags being torn open and their contents scattered.
Lots of times youth groups from the suburbs come into the city to do clean up work...picking up trash, mowing weeds, etc. I suppose it's nice for these people to do good deeds, and it does result in some cleanup. But I always wonder, "Why the heck don't the people who live their pick up their own trash?"
Yea, move to the 'burbs.
ReplyDeleteI did and I'm paying only $30 a month to have my trashed picked up.
On the bright side however...
It's nice to know that my E-Tax money is so well spent on things like a $500,000 option on a piece of real estate that no one else wants in downtown K.C.
Off-Topic, but I heard that Funk is half Walrus. Which explains the sonorous monotone that escapes from that air bladder in his forehead.
i thought the $2 started last month. the city owes me money back now, damn it.
ReplyDeleteAlways remember that one of the ways they got the E-tax in was promising that "you will never have to pay for trash bags or collection again". City supplied trash bags went a long time ago. Now they have the "excess charge" which one of the city people admitted was to force folks to recycle (remember they both happened about the same time - Dennis Gagnon I believe it was quoted on this).
ReplyDeleteSo, if we're paying for trash collection, only fair to do away with E-Tax, right?
If you put your trash out in a can in KCMO they will take the can alone with the trash.
ReplyDeleteAlways remember that one of the ways they got the E-tax in was promising that "you will never have to pay for trash bags or collection again".
ReplyDeleteJust like the "river boat" casino being in the river.... What a joke.