March 6,2003 I am finally hoping this letter gets through to my fellow
Minneapolitians. thanks you Mary Lynch Northrup neighborhood
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From: "mary lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:27:46 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fw: snow removal from carts at $25. per w/o notice on carts
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Subject: snow removal from carts at $25. per w/o notice on carts
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Has anyone noticed that there are flat, flat areas around many, many garbage carts in
our alleys after our first and only snow emergency of this season. I ask my
boyfriend in early Feb if he had shovelded around the cart at our house. He said no.
My mind wondered could the city have created that flat flat yard area around my cart.
My mind told me NO, no way. I figured some snow blower neighbor lonely for snow work
had gotten buzy in the alley as many of my neighbor had flat flat perfect yard areas
that their carts were sitting on. (you understand this is after the snow plow had
pushed our one time snow emergency snow down the alley and onto carts) This being such
a snowless winter I did not think anything more about it. Until yesterday that is.
I own a duplex. My tenant called me yesterday and said a city worker had just
shoveled around the two carts at her home. Now yesterday Feb 18 was above freazing
and what we maybe have 5 inches of snow left on the ground? I called the city. I
had not been hypervigilent this winter and yes the city on Feb 18, 2003 had shoveled
out my two carts at my duplex from piles and drifts of snow reaching up to oh maybe 4
to 5 inches of snow. I called back the city and ask about my home in Northrup
neighborhood. My cart had been shoveled out on Feb 7th 2003 from the snow the plow
had pushed down the alley and put on the cart. I had body slammed the cart on or
around that time, I remember doing it so that there would not be a problemn with the
cart being frozen in on my pick up day. I guess after my body slamming it snowed
again so then the snow emergency was called . (remember we have only had one snow
emergency called and only after the second snowfall totaling 8,9 or 10 inches as I
recall) The city is charging $25.per cart so now I owe the city $75.00 in extra
taxes. I thought we were trying to correct the snow emergency issues only to create
snow/cart issues? For the record I was informed by waste management that all city
water payers were given a written notice in their Nov 2002 water bills. So my
tenents were never notified and I never read any notice stating that no longer would
notices be put on carts, but just the city would clear no matter when the snow had
fallen etc. I have written too much. Sorry for that. I believe this non notice policy
on carts needs to be re thought out and maybe some news coverage of the new policy so
we can all remain hyper vigilent about snow removal even in a low snow year. May we
forgive these 1st time offenders? I figure on my block 10 carts were cleared at
$25.per that = $250. X 1000 blocks that equals $250,000 or a quarter million dollars.
Is my math right? Check out your block. This is serious money and serious
misinformantion to citizens.
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