Showdown on Garbage Collection Coming Tonight
Administration and private trash collectors will debate current system and single-hauler proposal in front of City Council at budget hearing at 6 p.m.
City Council tonight will discuss a proposal to institute a single-hauler residential trash collection system, a decision that could end Bethlehem’s longstanding and entrenched practice of requiring residents to hire their own refuse collectors. Private haulers and Callahan administration officials who stand on opposite sides of this issue both continued to wage public relations campaigns Monday. Community and Economic Development Director Joe Kelly attended a Neighborhood Watch meeting at Church of the Manger in West Bethlehem to talk about the proposal. A few hours earlier, about two-dozen people – a mix of haulers, family members and supporters – came to Payrow Plaza to defend the city’s existing trash collection system and to oppose …
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9:44 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
We could get rid of our forester and the street tree program especially in light of the fact that the storms the last two years have proven that street trees are no longer appropriate with wires. The trees we have now are routinely destroyed by heavy pruning as it is. We can also look at the services the Health Bureau provides. Since everyone will have health ins. in 2014 it is time to wind down … more ›