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[quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"][quote]True you then get to wait a week with smelly overflowing trash on your property.  Remember Government can always do it for you just not better.[/quote]

Sorry to chime in again with essentially the same thing I posted two days ago.  If you desire more than one pick up a week, this probably doesn't work for you.  You should vote no.  If you think this is about big government, you are starting to border on being a whack job.  This is about using collective buying power to negotiate a better price.  There are other sites and issues where you can go off on anti-government rants where they actually make sense.[/quote]

The money will be collected by Cranbury and to do so Cranbury will have to hire a new "part time" employee which could very easily turn into a full time employee once the billing and complaint issues become apparent.  This sounds a lot like bigger government to me and if that makes me a whack job then so be it.  Does everyone in town really want to pay for another employee for the town who will cost at least 10k a year to start and then will cost us much more once they are full time and have to then add in benefits and pension.[/quote]

You are really making a large leap here.

- Let's assume we hire a new employee at 10k part time to do billing there are no benefits paid.  That is still a savings from the dump days we get rid of having to spend on.

- Why would billing be a concern?  The billing is a fixed amount per home.  It's not a usage fee. Every home gets the same bill same cost.  When the tax bill goes out so does the trash bill.  Or maybe we just look at the trash company sending the bill out to the homes and collecting the money.  That could be part of what the TC looks at.

- Why are you envisioning massive service issues?  People are going to call the company directly and be told to do so.  The town is not collecting your trash, whoever the private company is will collect the trash.  The company doing so is still a private company not employed by the town.  But, let's say you decide to involve the town because you don't want to call the provider.  The minimal amount of calls handled I am sure could be done by a current employee.  Why do I say this?  Because people like yourself want to stay with your provider.   The service is not going to change to where garbage fills the street or amounts of pick ups are missed.  There will be a service agreement guaranteeing how the service the town is to receive.[/quote]

If it is on the tax bill people will call the town offices.   If their is an issue with the company the people who paid the tax on their bill will go to the town offices with their issue.  If trash is not picked up for some reason who will resolve the issue?  The town.  Your taking a utopian view of the world.[/quote]

It's not on the tax bill it is a separate bill.  There will be a number to call which is the provider.

How often is your trash not picked up today?  I have never had to call even when my own town did the trash pick up.  I don't remember any issues years ago when Cranbury had trash service either.[/quote]

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