Winston-Salem Increased Loose Leaf Collection
Dear Editor,
The decision by Greensboro City Council to remove loose leaf collection is a slap in the face to the city. Not only is this service critical, it is being taken away at a time when the citizens are paying 30 percent more property taxes thanks to reevaluations (the number thrown around is $120 million additional tax revenue). It seems the council is bent on finding ways of spending money for new projects, raises and new hires, yet decides to take away a critical service for residents.
The solution is not to take away the service, but to increase the service. The city of Winston-Salem proudly states on their customer service line that they have increased their vacuum equipment by 41 percent. The city of Winston-Salem has doubled its service by serving two quadrants at a time versus one at a time last year. By speeding up the collection they address the lame excuse of traffic issues caused by leaf piles. They are performing three collections per quadrant. This is a city that is addressing the solution instead of throwing up its arms and deserting the taxpayers.
For the Greensboro City Council to make the decision to stop providing loose leaf pick up when they are acutely aware of the citizen’s need for this service is pure neglect and an insult to the citizens they are supposed to serve.
Geoff Beaston
Here, here. My dinky hometown of Mt Gilead even does loose leaf collection to this day.
Eliminating the collection of loose leaf collection will lead to increased accidents on our roadways since once those leaves blow into the streets and become wet by our natural precipitation, they’ll turn into road conditions similar to those of the north’s plight with snow and ice. The roads will be so slippery that applying your brakes will be a waste of time.
Stop thinking about revenue savings and pay more attention to the safety of your taxpaying individuals.
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You’re right, but that’s not a concern for them. In fact, their objective is to make driving as costly, frustrating, time consuming, aggravating, and dangerous as they can. That’s why the red light cameras were removed as soon as they became legally obligated to turn over the revenue to the schools. City government got zero – and the cameras were gone within a month of the ruling, despite them selling it to us as a safety measure. That tells you all you need to know.
They despise and resent the private automobile, and they’re conducting a war against it, and us.
And watch what happens when these Council Seats come up for election – all these blood sucking tax lovers will be RE-elected!
No matter how well you put it, the City will do whatever they want, some of it just for spite.
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Our socialists are just like all other socialists.
In the initial relatively innocuous stages, all the citizens tend to notice is ever increasing taxes and ever reducing services.
This is the stage we’re at, here in Greensboro in 2023.
It gets worse.
It ends like Venezuela.
What makes you think the Lords and Ladies of the Kingdom of Greensboro really are that concerned about their serfs.
Well said. Way to go Winston.
Yes Geoff , your thought process is correct. What you missed is that Greensboro does not care for the majority of its tax paying citizens. They want the tax dollars to continue being able to enable the homeless vs them getting jobs and being productive. They want tax dollars to support EDI programs, not hire the best companies and their workers who bid on a job. They want the tax dollars to pay for city council members pet projects that show zero return on investment but provides an excellent money pit for that council member. They want tax dollars to hire unneeded additional government employees and build a larger government base . I am guessing you are aware of the school system. Use your vote wisely.
Once the “party” of the left takes control of a city, it’s over.
Geoff, you don’t understand the mechanics of municipal government. They get to decide on “their” proposed projects, while you and the rest of us are left out of the loop. No surveys of City citizens, etc.
We need a strong show of citizens to appear on the council hearings with a show of force. On a sit-in in front of the MMOB to let them know they will be voted out next election.
Trouble is, we WON’T vote them out. We (collectively) will vote them back in just like we did the last time. They are in until they die or decide to leave on their own.
It’s mid-December and the leaves are still all over the streets of western Hamilton Lakes. No pickup yet! We have an abundance of mature trees, and huge piles of leaves. Where, Oh where are those city trucks?
We’ve got piles of leaves sitting there since the end of October. No pickup yet. Would it be against the law to pool our resources and pay to have our leaves delivered to the homes of some our our council members? Mary Kay gushes about how she mows her leaves to mulch her lawn. That just doesn’t work for areas with a thick canopy of trees. The office of “sustainability” issued a memo lecturing us uneducated on the wonderful benefits of mowing our leaves into the grass. It is laughable! The city has not done a good job of loose leaf pickup so their solution was to give up. When you give up, you should resign.
John maybe you can get an answer from someone at public works, I tried and can’t. Over two thirds of the leaf equipment haven’t been moved this year, the city hasn’t even made one round yet. Why are the trucks and vacs not being used. A friend of mine works at the Patton Street garage told me they are not to service the trucks or vacs this year. That’s bullsh$$. What the hell is going on in this city
They’re saving money so the council can go on their trips to national meeting events to discuss. . . . .business?