I commend Commissioner John Page for
his op-ed in the VDT today,
attempting to do what no other Commissioner has tried:
to explain the trash issue.
Indeed, like him, most of the people I talked
to while campaigning for Gretchen were for keeping
the waste collection centers open, and of those
the vast majority were willing to pay more,
which is the main reason the previous Commission
made a big mistake in closing those centers.
Unfortunately his letter seems to indicate nothing can be done.
Well, here are some things that can be done.
Let the contract lapse.
Commissioner Joyce Evans insisted on the contract
with the sole provider being only for one year.
Let it lapse after that year!
Publish the contract.
What’s in the contract?
How do we even know it’s for only one year?
The new Commission already had to
do over a decision of the previous Commission
(remove license fee from Sunday alcohol sales)
because the ordinance written up afterwards wasn’t what
they thought they passed.
Publish the contract and let everyone see!
Publish an accounting for the waste collection sites.
Commissioner Page wrote:
The county was losing hundreds of thousands
of dollars each year because the fees for the permits
were not bringing in enough money to fully fund
the sites.
How do we know that?
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