After further review, Susan Young, who is the head of the City's Solid Waste
and Recycling, sent me an e-mail to qualify a few of the specifics I listed.
Susan wrote:
Buck Humphrey
Policy Aide
Office of Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton
612-673-2100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Young, Susan A
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 12:18 PM
> To: Humphrey , Buck
> Subject: RE: [Mpls] Recently passed Minneapolis litter container
> policy
>
> I was glad to see your post. My only concern is that folks may not
> understand the level of services that we're talking about. For instance,
> you state that "* The City will increase litter container servicing
> form the current once a week pick-up to 2.5 times per week. (Twice in the
> winter months and three times during the summer.)" I'm afraid that the
> folks in Dinky Town, the Franklin Ave. Business Association, adopters, etc
> will interpret this to mean that ALL LC's will be picked up by the City
> 2.5 times per week--the proposal talked only about the Bus Shelter
> containers and the Commercial Corridor containers at 2.5 times per week.
> Also, unless the original proposal was changed, and I admit that I haven't
> seen the Council action, the Downtown containers will be picked up 1.5
> times per week, just like the Eat Street and Uptown litter containers. If
> Uptown and Eat Street want to keep 2.5 times per week, and Downtown wants
> to achieve that, then they need to "partner-up."
>
> Thank you for originating the post!
>
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