City Of Ottawa Trashing Tax Paying Citizens
Today on CFRA, Rob Snow the afternoon host was looking at the City Of Ottawa’s Planning and Environment Committee plans for changing the way Ottawa taxpayers will be paying for their garbage pickup.
Currently, taxpayers pay $86 a year for weekly trash pick up which includes rotating weeks of blue bin (plastic/metal/glass) and black bin (recyclable paper) service.
However, the City is now rolling out green bin service for organics and they are taking the opportunity to add a service fee for this green bin service as well as moving the cost of the blue/black bin service from all tax payers to the homeowners.
So what does this amount to? Well it amounts to $195 a year for picking up our trash. From $86/year to $195/yr. That’s an increase of 127%.
Now for you aspiring socialist politicians out there…THAT’S how you OfficiallyScrew a taxpayer.
ACTIVISM: If you live in Ottawa, click here to find your city councilor and email them your feelings on this subject.
If you have only been paying $86 per year there is no way you have been paying anywhere near the actual costs. Maybe your city council has belatedly decided to charge nearer the actual cost which has been heavily subsidized by previous administrations. Check out the costs before having a hissy fit
I don’t remember losing sleep over compost-ables being in the carp mountain.
don’t remember any outcry for those green bins.
don’t even remember begging for those blue and black bins , that fly all over the road, that disintegrate in the cold, that the city can’t make up their mind what should actually go in.
I don’t remember asking them to hire new full time tax consumers, leaches that live at our largess, that will rove around and pick thru the garbage of unsuspecting homeowners and tax payers to make sure that folks are in proper compliance.
They can take their green bins and shove it up their Black hole
Wow C-Mom, way to go. I agree with every word. I will have nothing to do with green bins, that will stink in summer, and freeze like an iceblock in winter. So, I will not be paying for this service, as I was not asked if I agreed with this asinine idea.
So, C-Mom, what shall we do? How do we get a group together to present council with our greenbins. Don’t forget to erase the barcode on your bin before you leave it on the steps of council, full of rotting meat.
Came across this interesting website the other day.
http://www.dumpyourcouncillor.info
In the interests of taking the local pulse, I would encourage Ottawa Taxpayers and Bloggers to pass on the site’s address and vote on the poll that it includes.