Kay
Price, who is very involved with city politics and involved with issues, has been sharing information about the new trash service the TARE board.
Currently trash service picks up our trash,
our bulky items (chairs, small appliances, end tables, etc), and our
grass clippings, tree limbs, leaves, etc. Under the new trash system:
- you will be given a cart , that you will pay for yourself or through the new trash fee ).
- All trash must be put in the cart and rolled to the curb,
- The trash lid must be down (it cannot be up).
- The trash will be picked up once a week
- Your trash will be weighed when it dumps the trash. Why? Your trash bill will be determined by how much trash you have.
- You will have another cart for recycling and all the recycling material will go into 1 cart (it will not be separated like it is now). and we know who is paying for the carts...see #1 above.
- You will be paying for recycling whether you recycle or not.
- If you bag your grass clippings, or bag your fall leaves, you will have to purchase separate biodegradable bags to put your yard waste in. You will no longer be able to use your own cheap trash bags.
This will cost
you more money.
So,
basically most carts will stay at the curb (who is going to wheel those
bulky things back and forth from your garage or back yard every week
especially if you are disabled or elderly.
Second, the poor people will
not be able to afford this kind of trash service, hence there will be
more dumping of trash in the city of Tulsa.
Third, those nice lawns you
see in your current neighborhood may not be so in the future. If it is
going to cost you more to buy separate biodegradable bags in order to
do your lawn the right way, you may not be able to afford it especially
during this shaky economy. More than likely you will mow without a lawn
bag.
Fourth, if you need to get rid of bulky waste, you will not be
able to set it on the curb like you do now, because they won’t take it.
You will need to hire a private trash hauler to come and haul off all
your bulky waste that either you could not sell at the garage sale or
that goodwill would not take. So please make a note on your 2012
calendar to take vacation time to do some deep spring cleaning to get
rid of all the things you no longer need in your household before July
1, 2012.
FACTS : There are only 4 title 60 trusts in Tulsa.The Trash board (TARE) and the Airport are two of the title
60 trusts. The only way a title 60 trust can disband itself is if 4/5 of
the board agree to do so. Unbelievable huh?
Our district counselors
have fought for us (the people) in regards to the fact that most of the
citizens do not want this new service. And still the trash board is
shoving it down our throats.
CITIZEN MEETING regarding the Trash Service for our voices to be heard. All homeowners and neighborhood associations in the
Tulsa area are invited to this. The media has been invited. Sunday, November 6thfrom 1:45 to 4:00 pm at Hardesty Library , 8316 E. 93rd St. (Fosser auditorium) You are invited to attend this meeting and please be sure to o let your
family, friends and others know who live in Tulsa.
Also, read these two stories and add a comment to the Tulsa World
October 27, 2011 story in Tulsa World
Letter to the Editor: Rethink trash plan
People are already talking about how they will be sneaking their trash over to the neighbors so they will have a lower trash bill. This is scary. If we don't see them we will end up paying for their trash.
ReplyDeleteI think we all need to get out and put a stop to this nonsense. Write a letter to the editor of the Tulsa World or write in to the opinion page. Let's go to that meeting. We need to quit sitting there waiting for "someone else" to do everything, like we are stuck at 3 years old and have no common sense.