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GoogleThe council meeting, which frequently has no visitors, attracted about 30 citizens.
The motion would have approved the establishment of a solid waste collection program that would have consisted of automated collection of residential waste in 96 gallon container provided by the city.
The move would also have established a monthly fee of $9 and would have directed the city manager to develop a plan to implement the program to be presented later to the council for approval.
However, it was obvious that many citizens had attended the meeting to urge the council to vote the measure down.
Council member Al Stephenson passed out petitions with more than 250 signatures in opposition.
Council member Jo Ann Holland said that ever since she has been on the council, she has tried to vote for what the majority of the people wanted and that is why she was also against the idea.
"I've had lots of calls and I'm going to vote the way people asked me to vote," she said.
Another council member, Jean Pruitt, said the fee was "another cost that people don't need."
Council member Kay Rose also voted against implementing the program, saying that she had to go along with the public.
"We were trying to do something good that didn't turn out well," she said.
Thomas Landers said he voted "very much" against the program too.
The crowd applauded the council after the vote was taken.
Shelbyville uses two rear-loader trash collection trucks that are operated by three-man teams to pick up solid waste from approximately 6,800 residential customers.
Apartments and trailer parks are provided with three dumpsters, serviced weekly, and more than 200 businesses that use no more than the four 34-gallon trash containers also have their waste picked up weekly.
Shelbyville isn't charging any of these customers for the service. The proposed 2010 sanitation budget is $774,199, with $1,500 in revenue and $775,699 in expenses.
Under the proposal, the city would have provided residences with specially-designed, 96-gallon trash receptacles, which would be city property. Replacement or additional containers could have been purchased by the customer.
Had the measure been enacted, the new trucks would be able to serve 50 percent more households per day and the containers would have given the city a neater appearance.
Fees in other cities range from $9.20 (Pulaski) to $13.43 (Manchester), according to a Municipal Technical Advisory Service report.
Also, anyone on a low-income-based tax relief program would not have been required to pay the additional fee.
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That is Pulaski and Manchesters fault for allowing the fee. Our city must be smarter that that!
Tullahoma charges their citizens nothing for the service. If you want a second can then you have to pay for it.
I applaud the council members of Shelbyville for listening to the citizens. I only wish this was true of our federal representatives.
Thank the council people for the vote. It not that it wouldn't been nice. But the elderly and handicapped couldn't roll them to the street, and even if they had left them out, it meant they would had to carried there trash to the street all the time. Also they ones that was on tax-relief like myself, and didn't have to pay a fee. It wasn't right for the others to have to pay either. Times are to hard and everybody needs there money, for other things.
Now do something with that Dog Catcher, still haven't seen him. Did he fall in the back of the garbage truck?????????????
This system of garbage collection seems to be working well for other municipalities and seems reasonable imo.
What is UNREASONABLE and UNACCEPTABLE is the fact that they were presented with the idea of charging an EXTRA fee for something that is already being paid for by tax dollars. If they would have concentrated on making sure citizens weren't going to be double taxed, then the outcome could have possibly been different.
This was an excellent idea, now how about focusing on the real trashy site in shelbyville and clean out little mexico, that is if any of our officials and law enforcement has any balls to do the right thing. I remember a time when the law enforcement stopped anyone that didn't look like they belonged and asked for identification. I see many hispanics fishing on the duck and no one ever checks to see if they even have liscense. When I was a child, not an adult I fished the duck river many times and can't count the times that the game and wildlife folks asked to see my liscense. Not any more, they just look the other way. Someone ought to investigate the manufactured home dealers that were in shelbyville also and I'd bet they'd be quite surprised of the frauds. Little mexico needs to have a bulldozer attack it and some other sites also. Does anyone agree. Have a round up and put them all on a bus back to mexico, I'll drive the bus. And Tyson's foods also, let them be global in another country, if they want to hire third world nationals, I'm quite sure some honest americans will find a way to make a living selling chickens.
looks like my comment got deleted. go figure. clearly, freedom of speech is not recognized in shelbyville? i merely stated the truth...