You may have received your "Dear Weatherby Lake Residents" letter yesterday from Jerry. (See my post on July 20th, "Dear Citizens").
Highlights:
"What went wrong?"
"The process that was agreed upon was not followed in many respects" Translation, don't blame me blame Allied. It only took City Hall three letters by Allied to figure out things were a bit screwed up. The details of the "many respects" were not described...maybe for the best?
"Why do I have to use a container supplied by Allied?"
"Your Board of Aldermen wrestled with this requirement" The wrestling may have happened outside of public view (thankfully) but not much of a struggle was observed during BOA monthly meetings. If this was perceived as a big issue, why wasn't public feedback sought?.
"Get rid of the recycling containers at City Hall and CC"
"Nuisance" is the operative word. Jerry and Tanya grew weary of trying to police some of the goofballs (residents or not we don't know) who left stuff outside the bins. Although it was discussed at meetings, I am not aware of any specific action taken to address the issue. It remains to be seen how many residents will sign up for the recycling curbside...we will. From a cost perspective, if you can get all your trash in the 95 gallon bin you might be tempted to save 6$ a quarter and not get curbside...hope that doesn't happen.
"Why do I have to set the carts at the street in a particular way?"
According to Jerry, "I told the Allied representative that the Weatherby Lake residents were smarter the the residents from (Liberty, Lake Waukomis, Houston Lake and Excelsior Springs) those Cities..."
BOOYAH!
If you crunch the numbers on the Trash Evaluation matrix your conclusion on which service is the winner depends on the services you use. If you use trash, yard waste and occasional bulk pickup, Deffenbaugh might be a winner...depending on how the "Midwest Retail price" is calculated for fuel recovery. If you just use the 95 gallon, and that's all, you win over the previous contrac with Allied because of the quarterly charge difference and the elimination of the "Fuel recovery charge"
Interesting note, Allied in their recent bid to Gladstone submitted a substantially lower price for trash ($4.75 a quarter less) than they did to WL. Does size matter?
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We might have smarter people...not so sure about elected officials.
What did Gump say?
Regardless how one looks at it, the trash pick-up changes have been poorly communicated. Setting out the trash has been much the same way for years. The recent changes are not minor. Allied Waste is acting in accordance with the agreement negotiated by our WL elected official(s). It should have been our elected officials stepping forward and explaining the why, what, where changes. Bottom line, people have been caught off guard. Can anyone truly say it’s 100% Allied Waste’s fault?
No its not
Life is (almost)good at WL
Its just KCMO and Allied making life tough
To Anonymous of 7/31 6:14 and 11:45. It was the smart people in the City who elected our officials. Life is like a box of chocolates - still good at Weatherby Lake.
Not sure about smart people comment, I can't remember the last time we had choose between two candidates.
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