San Diego County grand juries have been asking city leaders to cancel the people’s ordinance which requires the city to provide trash pickup to residents who have direct street access.
Some of the residents from single family homes are not paying a special fee for the trash pickup. But apparently, people from the apartments and condos have to pay those special fees because of the private collection. The People’s Ordinance was put into place all the way back in 1919. When it was first passed, the agreement was that trash would be picked up and sent to hog farms as feed.
The inequity brought a lot of thoughts about the new reform. And the idea from the conservative side was that the city should leave the trash business entirely and let everyone pay trash companies to come. And the idea from the progressive was that the city should charge everyone a fee and provide the service to everyone. To make a change about those ideas, people have to make a public vote.
The City Council Environment Committee figured out that the People’s Ordinance cost the city about $260 million over the last five years. City Councilman Sean Elo-Rivera is currently making attempts to end the People’s Ordinance, “It’s an unfair system that results in nobody getting the level of service that they want and the whole city not getting the world-class services that they deserve,” said Councilman Elo-Rivera.
If this does proceed a ballot measure would be needed to end the People’s Ordinance.
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