----- Original Message ----- From: "mary lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:24:06 -0500 Subject: snow removal from carts at $25. per w/o notice on carts
> 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. > Mary Lynch Northrup-- > __________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com > http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
