Special to El Rrun-Rrun
Remember our post from October 16 when we reported that city landfill workers were running a private business selling snacks and knickknacks at the gate to make some drinking money and sometimes pocketing the fees charged customers to unload their house trash?
https://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2019/10/city-landfill-workers-lining-more-than.html
Well, apparently that got to the head honchos at city hall and we are told that the brisk business carried on selling candy bars and LED lights came to a screeching halt. Doe that mean that those worker have stopped doing business at the municipal landfill?
Not, not really.
The way that biz is done out at the moneymaker has changed. Let's say that after one of those sudden storms you have some brush detritus in your yard and – rather than piling it up outside where it will be blown away and end up in your neighbor's yard – you decide to gather it up and use the landfill.
When you get there, you are asked for a Public Utilities Board bill which entitles the bearer to dump their trash without a fee since they are already paying a trash charge though the utility bill. How many people carry a PUB bill with them? Most don't.
This leaves you open to the arbitrary charges that the employees at the gate want to charge you.
In one case we know of, a man who had gathered some brush after a storm went there October 14 and had 120 pounds of trash according to the scales at the gate and got charged $1.
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The same truck that wen to the landfill October 28 and the net weight on the scale (according to the receipt) indicated that the net weight of the trash was 100, 20 pounds less than the October 14 load of brush he had the first time.
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With 20 pounds less, it would appear that the charge would have been less, wouldn't you think?
Well, now. Apparently, the same truck was charged $1.00 is now charged $9.00, eight dollars more for 20 additional pounds.
Somehow the truck gained weight in 2 weeks. The landfill scale is either off or it is the clerk at the window that keys whatever he wants and charges whatever he wants to the people he doesn’t like or likes.
Like the teller said, save the receipts and next time and every time you come bring a PUB receipt or pay whatever they say. Is this is why people throw the brush and trash in ditches, canals or abandoned streets that plug the coverts and ditches because the city gives the middle finger to those citizens that really do care to keep the city clean?
What if it wasn't brush, and it was hazardous or construction materials? Would it be better to throw it in drainage ditches and culverts and plug them up rather than residents submitting to this capricious and arbitrary treatment at the hands of city workers?
https://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2019/10/city-landfill-workers-lining-more-than.html
Well, apparently that got to the head honchos at city hall and we are told that the brisk business carried on selling candy bars and LED lights came to a screeching halt. Doe that mean that those worker have stopped doing business at the municipal landfill?
Not, not really.
The way that biz is done out at the moneymaker has changed. Let's say that after one of those sudden storms you have some brush detritus in your yard and – rather than piling it up outside where it will be blown away and end up in your neighbor's yard – you decide to gather it up and use the landfill.
When you get there, you are asked for a Public Utilities Board bill which entitles the bearer to dump their trash without a fee since they are already paying a trash charge though the utility bill. How many people carry a PUB bill with them? Most don't.
This leaves you open to the arbitrary charges that the employees at the gate want to charge you.
In one case we know of, a man who had gathered some brush after a storm went there October 14 and had 120 pounds of trash according to the scales at the gate and got charged $1.
Well, now. Apparently, the same truck was charged $1.00 is now charged $9.00, eight dollars more for 20 additional pounds.
Somehow the truck gained weight in 2 weeks. The landfill scale is either off or it is the clerk at the window that keys whatever he wants and charges whatever he wants to the people he doesn’t like or likes.
Like the teller said, save the receipts and next time and every time you come bring a PUB receipt or pay whatever they say. Is this is why people throw the brush and trash in ditches, canals or abandoned streets that plug the coverts and ditches because the city gives the middle finger to those citizens that really do care to keep the city clean?
What if it wasn't brush, and it was hazardous or construction materials? Would it be better to throw it in drainage ditches and culverts and plug them up rather than residents submitting to this capricious and arbitrary treatment at the hands of city workers?