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Any town that dropped leaf pick up shoul have a drop point at CITY HALL or the Mayors front yard

I can't tell you how irked I am that Columbus voted in that tax increase but Mayor Coleman delayed having the city cover leaf pickup until next year, costing me more dough (in addition to the tax increase) because I had to pay Rumpke directly for leaf pickup this Fall. Mayor Coleman -- you suck. You really do.

Just don't rake them. I don't plan to rake mine. I'm just running over them with the mulching mower once per week. They'll all break down by spring if you do that.

Smittycat wrote:

I can't tell you how irked I am that Columbus voted in that tax increase but Mayor Coleman delayed having the city cover leaf pickup until next year, costing me more dough (in addition to the tax increase) because I had to pay Rumpke directly for leaf pickup this Fall. Mayor Coleman -- you suck. You really do.

Because they had a contract with Rumpke before the tax vote. The tax revenue doesn't even start coming in until this month and they'll have to write a new contract. You can't just snap your fingers do this stuff overnight.

Why not just compost them?

Eugene_C wrote:

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Because they had a contract with Rumpke before the tax vote. The tax revenue doesn't even start coming in until this month and they'll have to write a new contract. You can't just snap your fingers do this stuff overnight.

Here is the problem with your contract theory one of the selling points during the election was if the tax increased was past the city would start yard waste collection in the fall. A typical politican tell you what you want to hear just to get what they want. Mayor Coleman I agree with the first post you suck!

So, How many trees will be cut down because people won't want to go through a hassle?? What a shame.

Eugene_C wrote:

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Because they had a contract with Rumpke before the tax vote. The tax revenue doesn't even start coming in until this month and they'll have to write a new contract. You can't just snap your fingers do this stuff overnight.

Well, they sure were pretty efficient at snapping their fingers and getting enough of a small contingient of voters to the polls to increase the income tax 25% now weren't they?

DAG wrote:

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Here is the problem with your contract theory one of the selling points during the election was if the tax increased was past the city would start yard waste collection in the fall.

All the ads and news articles I saw said yard waste would resume in spring. In fact I've still got one of the post cards right here on my desk. It says "spring" on it.

Yup, promise was spring, Smittycat is just one of the legion of damned if you do damned if you do type people here in the city. Probably was against the increase now wants the benefits of it before the city has even collected it for a whole month.

How many of clownman's reletives are employed at Alcorn anyway? Isn't that a worthless nut?
Sorry, that is a buckeye!

Smittycat wrote:

I can't tell you how irked I am that Columbus voted in that tax increase but Mayor Coleman delayed having the city cover leaf pickup until next year, costing me more dough (in addition to the tax increase) because I had to pay Rumpke directly for leaf pickup this Fall. Mayor Coleman -- you suck. You really do.

I am glad you are mad about this because you and all the people that voted yes on teh tax increase deserve it. You trust what the government tells you too much....and history shows they are a lying out-of-touch power-hungry bunch who shouldn't be trusted with more money before they show they can manage what they have responsabily.

Eugene_C wrote:

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All the ads and news articles I saw said yard waste would resume in spring. In fact I've still got one of the post cards right here on my desk. It says "spring" on it.

the problem is you are dealing with people who don't let things like facts get in their way.they want sevices.they wants cops and firefighters and they want the no tax fairy to slip them under the mayor's pillow.

omg, people will have to rake their own leaves? God no!

I voted no for the tax increase ...... but since majority rules and since I am forced to pay the extra on the income tax, I want my services returned not today, but yesterday. It BS that they just take away services that you actually need, how about when the snow comes and plow my street, oh thats right, it won't be touched because I am not in one of the Mayor's preferred neighborhoods.

LMAO @ being so lazy

Why are you people tripping? Just wait and after the wind has blown a while all the leaves will be in your neighbors yard and you will not have to worry. Works for me.

Of sanitation crews collecting bagged leaves left curb-side with regular trash for weekly pick up Lancaster's mayor says,“More trucks or truck runs will only require more fuel”- what, trucks are self-operated and the bags will throw themselves into/onto them? No increased equipment and machinery maintenance or allowance for tires, wear, tear, depreciation? The mobile leaf vacuuming equipment has been sold and the crews who formerly manned the equipment have lost their jobs?

City of Lancaster cannot afford a regularly scheduled street resurfacing and maintenance program; neighborhood curb-side recycling; municipal water and sanitation customers continue paying for a landfill closed some 30 years ago and are twice paying for a new water plant due to ‘mistakes’; paying increased water and sanitation rates for separation of storm water and sewer and paying a new rain-water surface runoff fee; a per-vehicle license plate fee; and a fee for emergency squad / EMS run's (often paid for through increased health insurance premiums).

Scott wrote:

Are you kidding me...PEOPLE THAT COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS ARE LAZY AS H**L and I am sure as fat too! Here's an idea for all you lazy bums, get off your butts and rake and bag. Give me a break, our society is a bunch of lazy whiners. No wonder our economy is in the tank, only a handful of people actually know what work is!!

I would be more than willing to rake my leaves if the government wasn't taking money from may paycheck that was supposed to be used to rake my leaves. It has nothing to do with laziness.

Ron wrote:

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I would be more than willing to rake my leaves if the government wasn't taking money from may paycheck that was supposed to be used to rake my leaves. It has nothing to do with laziness.

The Mayor and City Council were going to come to my house and rake my leaves? I didn't get that memo.

If Bush and Clinton didn't sell our manufacturing jobs overseas then we would still have those manufacturers around paying their taxes into the coffers.

But better to have Corporate CEOs "rake" in millions overseas without having to pay ANY taxes, right? How about some laws that keep manufacturers in America, so they can employ Americans, and pay taxes to support America's infrastructure?