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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Mayor Against Proposed User Pay Garbage Collection Plan













Common council has passed a motion that council consider the merits of the user pay system. But Mayor Ivan Court says there is no way he can support implementing a service that increases the cost of solid waste services to the poor, but gives richer citizens a tax break. Court says the user pay proposal is taking advantage of the most vulnerable.

Court says the service needs to be affordable to everyone, and it cannot be maintained on the backs of the poor.