"AUTUMN LEAVES" nat king cole

The falling leaves Drift by the window

The autumn leaves of red and gold

LEAVES

As we were informed at the last council meeting the city administration has decided to no longer pick-up the autumn leaves due to a problem with a truck? This service will now be included in the price you pay for the rubbish pick-up?
Now I didn't think this city  ala carte list was kosher. For as long as I can remember leaves in 2015, 2005, 1999, 1984 and 1971 were the city responsibility. Something we paid for in our property and/or income tax?

Read this carefully and see if you come to the same conclusion that I did.

955.18 Yard Waste

The city shall itself or by contract, provide for the collection and disposal of leaves, brush and tree branches less than four inches in diameter and forty-eight inches in length and holiday trees on specified days in the manner designated by the Director.

Ord. 8-99
Passed 06/21/99
Ord. 24.07
Passed 12/03/07

My contention is that nowhere in the 955 rubbish ordinance the city included leaves .brush in the ordinance? It has been the responsibility of the city for years., and reading this with the word "itself" and the proceeding coma falls not under resident responsibility but the city.
Is this another case of the city wanting to provide less services and collecting the same amount of  tax money?

Look the ordinance gives the city the right to contract rubbish pick-up from resident's nothing else!

When I asked Law Director Joseph Gurley all he stated was "he would look into it."

Well council can if they wish amend the ordinance by vote letting resident's know this is another item they can pay for. My hope is the word brush, as well as yard waste, and leaves do not become part of the next contract scam by a refuse company and the city.

The city's obligation is to find the best contract for resident's NOT to enrich  themselves!

What  next put snowplows on the front of the garbage trucks and add street snowplowing to your rubbish contract?

Update;

City decides to "lay more pipe on to Painesville resident's"

One thing you can always count on in Painesville are very poor estimations!

Now remember that $8.00 surcharge on your monthly water bill? Well that brings in $1,200,000.00 into the water department yearly. AS it was explained at a council meeting the city was going to spend $10,000,000.00 on a new water line and crib interest-free out into Lake Erie. The financing would work kind of like this $600,000.00 a year to pay for the line and $600,000.00 to repair waterlines in our water district area. Well the estimates are not coming in anywhere close to 10 million closer to 16 million. You guessed it,  throws a monkey wrench into the formula. maybe $900,000.00 into the water intake line and $300,000.00 into new city infrastructure. The city is looking at saving some money by making the water intake 300- 400 yards shorter. So could it had been shorter in the first place? One promise I can make you that $8.00 surcharge will never ever go away.

More rubbish tomorrow as well as Housing Task Force leave's port today at 5:00 pm!

Hey, is there another Republican debate coming up soon? I need to hear some new 'Dick' jokes. WOW Thought I'd never type those words.

In a country that prides itself on it's democratic voting policies isn't it way passed the time that we got rid of Caucuses' ? flipping coins, forcing people to drive  to another county, listening to speakers just please let people vote!
Someone if they can explain this to me. Today both Michigan and Idaho vote in primaries. Michigan has close to 10 million people living in the state with 59 delegates at stake. Idaho with a little over 1.6 million people has 32 delegates at stake. What do the potato's get a vote? Help me with the math?