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Friday, February 10, 2012
City Council to decide on green waste bins
by Kathleen Haley, published on November 23, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Storyline: City Services
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The Sacramento City Council will decide Tuesday night whether to ask voters to use bins for their green waste.
In a 1977 initiative, Sacramento voters said the city could not establish the use of bins for residents’ green waste. If the city wants to enact bin use rules, it must ask voters to overturn the 1977 law, according to a new report from the Utilities Department.
However, residents in some areas of the city can choose bins instead of on-the-street pickup, according to the department. About 85,000 residents have chosen to use bins, the report notes.
The City Council meeting will be at City Hall, 915 I St., at 6 p.m.
Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.
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Beyond the reason listed there as to why green waste should be placed in bins, as opposed to piled up in the street, the other reason is making the streets safer. With green waste piled in the bike lanes, cyclists are forced to take the lane of vehicular traffic in order to commute; and at night, even the brightest of bike lights does not give a cyclist enough notice of the debris which causes many cyclists to get into accidents.
Repeatedly I see bikers blow through stop signs and red signal lights, ignore cars signaling to turn right at intersections, then running into the car or nearly so, zigzag back and forth across the street and ride as many as three abreast down the streets--one in the bike lane the rest in the street--riding after dark with no headlights or taillights. How safe are those reckless acts?
curbs that clog the drain? FYI, I would need about 4 green bins to put our leaves in.
If you take the claw out of the picture-you set up the possibility of out sourcing for the garbage contract-since all trash is contained.
It's interesting that on 9/28 Norcal Waste Systems Inc via their Recolgy PAC contributed $7000 to SAG for the the SMI...
So here's the 49 Dollar question-Is the city going to give up on street sweeping parking enforcement...if the claw goes away? How much revenue does that one violation bring into the general fund annually?
Remember street sweeping is only occurring once every two months-but street-sweeping enforcement happens to coincide with trash PU and Claw day (including holidays)...where it is enforced...cars don't need to move anywhere else in the city on trash pick up day or street sweeping...so take away parking enforcement & guess where the bins are all going...out into the street and bike lanes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7TOBotn76w