Lack of Incentive to Recycle...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flat Rate Garbage vs. Pay Per Dump

 

Flat Rate Pickup:

        Advantage:

 Fixed income. Every household fixed rate.

 Easy Billing. Bill added to water bill quarterly.

       Disadvantage:

 No incentive to recycle. Same bill each month.

 Variable dump fees. (less recycle, high dump fees)

 Higher fuel cost. (less recycle, more trips to landfill)

 More Employee hours (trip to landfill)

Pay-Per-Dump:

       Advantage:

 Encourage people to recycle (less trash, lower dump fees)

 Lower fuel costs ( more recycle, less trips to landfill)

 Lower employee Hours (less trips to landfill)

       Disadvantage:

 No Fixed Income (Income varies with recycle vs. trash)

 RFI computers installed on trucks.

 New billing system implemented on water bills

 

Trucks:

4 new trucks all automated.

All computerized with RFI readers installed.

May look at HPNG conversion for trucks.

Waste Bins:

32 Gallon, 64 Gallon, 96 Gallon bins. All with RFI chips installed. All paid for by city. May ask for deposit from homeowner.

96 bins no RFI chips for recycle

Recycle:

Everyone will have 95 gallon bin for recycle.

no charge to recycle.

Pay per Dump Fees:

$3 - 32 gallon

$5 - 64 gallon

$7 - 96 gallon

New trucks fully automated will reduce workman comp claims, reduce manpower per truck in half and speed collection. Bins and trucks equipped with RFI readers and chips. Truck Computer records time and address for billing. Trash picked up on a weekly schedule. No Trash bin out = no bill. Recycle will all have 96 gallon containers. Recycle collected on 2 week basis. No cost to recycle.

Problem with Homeowner paying for Garbage bins is have you ever drove down the street after the recycle crew has dumped the bins? Looks like high winds have hit the area. Think if the city owned the containers, more care would be taken on them. Although the recycle bins are owned by the city, I have not found any information on the current replacement costs but I'm sure it's pretty high.

Another thought that would save $$ from the landfill. Glass is the second highest weight of recyclable waste behind magazines. Maybe have once a month Glass only dump pickups. Less weight to the landfill more savings. 

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Welcome to the World of More.

Welcome to the World of crisp digital picture and sound on all your TVs.

Unless your having problems.

The only "more" I have experienced is more calls to 1-800-comcast. More problems. More DTA's and More headaches.   So far I have installed 2 DTA's, had them both lose programming, several calls to comcast, got one back, and had a service call, got the other back, then lost all cable. Oh, and not one person has physically touched any part of the cables or DTA's  I have. (all programming error)

Looking to installing a 4" electrical conduit to the back of my flat screens to hide the cables.

How's your new cable service been ?


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Quincy's # 1 cable company

Comcast spokesperson Angelynne Amores said a mudslide around 8:30 a.m. damaged the cable system of a vendor outside of Quincy. She said she didn't have an exact location of where the mudslide happened except that "it wasn't in Quincy."

Amores said Comcast would not release the number of its customers who were affected by the outages.


Cable and Internet out for 12 hrs and no notice what so ever and a pretty piss poor explaination of where it happened and how many affected.


Isn't it great when the city gives you a Monopoly.


Direct TV ?

Hydro Payoff

Ameren to cut Illinois power rates as costs fall

The city would make enough money to cover the bond repayments for 50 and provide power for city services and residents. Repaying the bonds could cost $2.6 if one plant was built and $8.5 million if three plants were built.

"When we looked at this in 1983, there wasn't the public support for it," Klingner said. "Now we have interest from the utilities to buy power from us. We looked at windpower, but the utilities weren't interested and that's why it wasn't feasible."

Repaying the bonds over a 50 year period would cut into the gross revenues, which could reach $13 million annually.

Each plant will has $675,000 in operational, management and maintenance costs built in. Alderman Steve Duesterhaus, (D-2nd Ward), asked if the hydropower plants would be a major permanent job creator for the city, besides the jobs created in building the facilities.

"I don't think it's too soon to talk about how we hold this asset," Duesterhaus said.

“Those two (Clarksville and Winfield) have even greater potential because they have much more drop (in water elevation) than the ones we’ve been entertaining,” he said. That could translate into even more production of electricity.

Some Insight on Comcast...

Ran across this article while reading about Da' Bears.

Seems like we may not be taking a step up.....

Electric Rate Relief ?

Ameren has a message for you: