City Moving Forward with Automated Trash Truck & Residential “Dumpsters”
February 22nd, 2012 by Mandy MossThe City Council unanimously voted to allow Mayor Allen Maxwell the permission to advertise for bids for the purchase of an automated garbage truck and the containers the truck needs to operate.
Mayor Maxwell stated that containers are 96 gallons and are, “similar or identical to the ones owned by the County. “
Mayor Maxwell wants to be able to use one man to run the garbage truck and to stop people from having to ride on the back of the truck in the cold of winter or heat of summer, plus avoid dangers of possibly falling off of the truck during operation. The new truck would save the city a reported 6 gallons of diesel per day, plus the cost of manning the truck would go down, according to Mayor Maxwell.
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eliminate jobs for the “truck hangers” and others! that is what this will do so then our fair city will move up can become automated while unemployment rate remains high….great idea.
Will this new method change the trash pick-up schedule to one time per week instead of the twice a week schedule we now have? I did not hear that discussed in the video.
The money you are going to use to purchase the trash cans and new trash truck is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, instead of doing that and eliminating four jobs because that’s what it amounts to give the city employees that money for a RAISE!!! they all deserve it.
I hope the Mayor does not do the community like he did the school district with their trash problems excuse me the pick ups!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well now we can have huge garbage containers sitting in front of every house. People put their garbage out and go to work (hopefully) so these huge containers will sit there all day. Also I would think the people that work on the truck don’t want to lose their job. To have a job even in the cold of the winter or heat of the summer would be better than no job. Also there are a lot of people that work outside in the cold of the winter and the heat of the summer. The postman, laborers on building the new hwy 69, forestry people and I imagine you will see people walking to work because they can’t buy gas. There are a lot of people that work outside and prefer that type of work over working under air conditioning. Didn’t the city just by a new garbage truck??????. Another example of spending and then going in a different direction.
Mayor Maxwell has also said he was gonna make sure the lights get put back on the square and that the city would start a compost program for yard waste. Seems that nothing he says he will do gets done anyway.
Wouldn’t these big trash containers cause a nuisance? Some elderly people would not be able to move their’s from the curb on pickup days. As long as the city is moving forward, how about painting center stripes on all the streets. It is difficult to see at night (not sure why street lights don’t put out much light). Have had visitors from out of town comment how dark it is and no lines on streets when driving at night.
I think this is a wonderful idea. No more dogs tearing up my trash. No more trashcans blown in the road and run over by cars. I have lived in other cities and always had big trash containers available – I missed that when we moved to Monticello!
I thought the city used people from the detention center to ride the back of the trash truck. The only city employee is the driver, who will not loose his job. I hope they do change the schedule to one weekly pickup. Think of the fuel savings. I applaud the council for coming together and making a good call.
There are 2 city employees that ride on the back of the trucks.
And Maxwell said he wasn’t going to build anymore ball fields, yet there’s a girls softball field and 2 practice fields going up.