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November 9, 2016
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VENT!
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Hillary for Prison 2016!!
votes: 7
Does anyone know how
many current members of
Congress and the Senate
support Trump? Honestly,
I don’t think he is going to
work with anyone. He will
probably say he doesn’t
need a cabinet because
he will run it all by himself,
votes: 4
We don’t need the “hate
it” option. Radicals will get
whole groups from other
states to get on the com
puter and kill vents they
don’t like, votes: 3
I am tired of being told
to vote according to the
moral issues. What is
more immoral than Mela
nia butt-naked on a bear
rug? votes: 3
Democracy works only
where the populace is
educated and able to think
for themselves. We have
bred a generation who let
preachers or bosses or
radio shows tell them how
to vote, and they never
ask, “Is this really true?”
votes: 3
It doesn’t matter what sort
of phony FBI mess comes
up. Some of us have been
waiting to vote for Hillary
since 2008, and we will
not be swayed. Any of us
could go under FBI ex
amination tomorrow and
be later found innocent,
votes: 3
After reading the editorial
and column from the Dou
ble D’s of the local second
estate, I have decided that
I live amongst folk who
don’t mind having a dicta
tor. votes: 2
It’s that time of year again.
If you know anyone who is
signing up for one of those
online colleges on TV,
please tell them the cred
its won’t transfer to real
colleges, votes: 2
The beheading of white
Europeans by followers of
Islam was about 500 years
before Europeans settled
in North America, and the
white people left Europe
to go on Holy Wars into
the territory of the Mus
lims. Read your history
book, votes: 2
More unnecessary igno
rance being spread. The
Pilgrims were escaping
the Church of England
NOT Islam. Continental
Europeans were escap
ing Roman Catholicism to
come here. Got a history
book in your house??
votes: 2
Some extended stay mo
tels in Macon don’t even
have ice machines, much
less a restaurant, but they
stay full, votes: 2
What’s wrong with wear
ing overalls and raising
cattle? You are describing
my beloved grandfather,
votes: 2
I guess we’ll never know
what you WOULD have
done, but I know some
good old white boys who
jointed military under
Obama and have had no
problems, votes: 2
Poor people just don”t
have a clue as to what’s
waiting on them. Thinking
one thing, when it is obvi
ously something different,
votes: 2
Please stop calling all
American Muslims Islamic
thugs. Many of them are
citizens who hate the
violence of ISIS as much
as you do. You probably
know someone with a
Muslim, or former Muslim,
relative, since many men
who went to Desert Storm
married the women from
there, votes: 2
iEeporter
After complaints, city
resumes yard waste work
BY DIANE
GLIDEWELL
mws@mymcr.net
After years of com
plaints about how
Advanced Disposal was,
or was not, picking up
yard waste for the city,
Forsyth council voted on
Sept. 6 to remove yard
waste from its contract
with Advanced Disposal
and start, covering it
in-house. City manager
Janice Hall said Forsyth
will pick up yard waste
weekly until March or
April and then analyze
whether that program is
cost effective.
Hall said she and
Mayor Eric Wilson met
with Jarod Lovett of
Advanced Disposal. Hall
and Wilson recommended
the city take a 2015
proposal from Advanced
Disposal to discontinue
yard waste pick up and
reduce the city rate from
$11.66 to $10.80 per
home per month
Collection will continue
to be weekly for munici
pal solid waste (MSW)
and recycling. Recycling
is on Tuesdays and MSW
pick up is on Wednesdays
and Thursdays. In
exchange Advanced
Disposal gets a one-year
contract extension.
Wilson said estimates
are that it will cost the
city about $1.73 per
customer per month to
pick up yard waste. In
Advanced Disposal’s
previous contract with
Forsyth, it charged 86
cents per customer per
month for yard waste,
but council frequently
discussed complaints
that Advanced Disposal
did not pick up all yard
waste. Wilson said Lovett
met the city halfway
between 86 cents and
$1.73 to reduce the rate
by $1.29.
Repeated efforts to edu
cate citizens on size and
weight requirements for
yard waste and to work
with Advanced Disposal
on clarifying points of
dissension with custom
ers did not resolve issues.
For example, some yard
waste was left across the
street or down the street
from designated pick-up
points because of space
limitations, and Advanced
Disposal would not recog
nize the pick up as valid.
“I think we do a better
job getting it up,” said
Wilson.
Lovett’s proposal for
Advanced Disposal to
give the city unlimited
yard waste collection
with a grapple truck was
at $16.80, an increase
of $5.14 per home per
month Wilson said that
price would force the city
to increase the rate it
charges residents. Wilson
said he hopes residents
will be better satisfied
with the service they get
from Advanced Disposal
for garbage pick up that
doesn’t include yard
waste.
‘They get a 24-hour
grace period, but without
yard waste, they should
be able to get everybody
on the right day,” said
Wilson.
Council member Greg
Goolsby said the city
needs to let its garbage
customers know when the
city’s grapple truck will
run and what it will pick
up. Hall said the city’s
ordinance is that it will
not pick up yard waste
greater than 50 lbs or
4-ft. in diameter, which
is the same as Advanced
Disposal’s limitations.
Wilson asked Hall to find
out what the grapple
truck and other city
equipment can handle.
The city only picks up
yard debris, not furniture,
appliances or construction
waste.
At the Sept. 19 coun
cil meeting Hall said
Department Head
Alvin Randall had set
the guidelines for yard
waste. The city will pick
up one pile up to 5’ wide
and 5’ high at a location
each week. Weight does
not matter since it is
picked up by the grapple
truck and not by work
ers. There will be a $25
charge for piles that are
bigger or if there is more
than one pile.
Hall said the $25 fee
must be paid before the
city will pick up the big
ger piles; it cannot be
added to a customer’s bill.
Also, yard waste must
be at least 3’ away from
other garbage and recy-
clables, must not be in a
ditch and must not block
mailboxes or sidewalks.
Wilson said that the $25
fee will be waived in case
of storm damage or other
emergency when there
is extra yard waste to be
removed throughout the
city.
“We’re only charging
you $15 per month [for
all garbage and debris
removal],” said Hall. “The
county is charging us $35
per ton. We’re losing some
money, but if there are
no limits, we’ll never get
caught up.”
“I like that we’re finally
doing something,” said
council member Greg
Goolsby. “We’ve beat this
thing down the road too
long.”
A major factor in wheth
er the city will be suc
cessful in handling yard
waste itself is whether
its equipment, especially
its grapple truck, stays in
good repair.
Hall said that if some
thing is put out that does
not meet requirements for
pick up, the truck driver
tells his department head
(Randall or Steve Butler)
and public works will get
in touch with the home-
owner.
The city does not pro
vide trash pick-up for
commercial customers
except for businesses
around the square. Other
commercial customers
contract for garbage ser
vice individually.
‘The number one thing
I get beat up on is [gar
bage] containers on the
square,” said Goolsby.
“I’m tired of talking about
containers on the square.
We need to resolve it.”
Hall said the city has
reduced by half the num
ber of containers on Lee
Street. A big part, of the
problem is that many
buildings around the
square do not have access
to back doors. They have
no way to leave trash
and recyclables for pick
up other than in front of
their businesses near the
city sidewalks. Council
has discussed making
businesses take their
trash to a dumpster off
the square.
The city addressed a
small glitch in its plan
to pick up yard waste on
Nov. 7: It had not consid
ered its customers who
live just outside city lim
its. Employees had been
told not to pick up yard
waste outside city limits,
but there are customers
served by the city through
Advanced Disposal that
were then deprived of
yard waste pick up that
was provided to nearby
neighbors, particularly in
Betsy Lynn subdivision.
Council voted to pick up
yard waste from everyone
receiving garbage service
until they work out a
policy, possibly a higher
rate for those outside the
city limits.
CORRECTIONS
A story on page 7A of the Nov. 2
Reporter, “MP senior recovering from
burns” should have said that Whitt
Webb was burned at a friend’s home,
not at a party.
A story on page 1A of the Nov. 2
Reporter, “Mary Persons forever,”
should have said that the Monroe
County Board of Education purchased
property on Highway 41 South from
the Newton family. The Board then
agreed to a land swap of part of the
Newton tract that the Board acquired
in exchange for property Otis Ingram
owned known as the McCosh property.
An article about the Oct. 23 dedi
cation of children at First Baptist
Forsyth should have included Kate
Austin Hill, 3, and Carter Grace Hill, 8
weeks, children of Rusty and Kristin
Hill, grandchildren of Sherry and
Steve Pope, Todd Jones, Gracey and
Cindy Colvin and Larry Hill.
We regret the errors as the Reporter
strives for accuracy. If you see an error
of fart, please email publisher@rnymcr.
net or call 994-2358. Corrections are
made, when necessary, in this part, of
the paper.
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