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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Council Mixed on Single Trash Hauler Proposal

Council President Eric Evans and Councilman Robert Donchez say more time is needed for discussion. Councilwoman Karen Dolan says council has 'discussed this issue to death.'

  Bethlehem City Council gave mixed reviews to Mayor John Callahan’s plan to switch to a single municipal trash hauler during the first of four hearings to discuss the mayor’s proposed 2013 budget Monday night. Council President Eric Evans said he is not sure that the remainder of 2012 is enough time to sufficiently debate and implement a new trash collection system in the city. “I’m getting more comments on that than I’ve had on anything else since I’ve been on council these last couple of years,” Evans said. Councilman Robert Donchez agreed that the issue might need more time to be hashed out. “I think it deserves a full debate and discussion,” he said. But Councilwoman Karen Dolan saw it differently, noting that it has come up for …

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Mayor Proposes 8.5% Tax Hike, Single Trash Hauler

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Mayor Proposes 8.5% Tax Hike, Single Trash Hauler

Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan proposes 2013 budget that would preserve the city's 911 Center and radically alter the way garbage is collected.

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Daryl Nerl
  • Saturday, November 10, 2012

  Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan is proposing a real estate tax increase of 8.5 percent and a radical change in the city’s garbage collection system in his 2013 budget plan, which he officially unveiled during a news conference in City Hall Friday. Heading into his final year in office, the mayor plans to take on a difficult political fight and hire a single hauler to cart city garbage – eliminating Bethlehem’s longstanding system of requiring property owners to hire their own hauler from a list of city-approved garbage collection companies. Callahan argued that a single hauler system would save the average city household $110 a year while providing the city with a new source of revenue that is not property tax. The proposal is likely to …

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Frightwingslayer

11:07 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012

Snagglepuss, How do you manage to turn this story into an attack on unions..I'm glad , however, that you used the word negotiate..If unions enjoy these pensions , it 's because the municipal leaders or leader gave them this in negotiations..Thank you. Also, the Republican backed Wall streeters also decimated municipal pensions, among others, when they almost bankrupted our economy..Lastly, many …   more ›

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