Overland City Council Meeting 11/27/2006

At the November 27th Overland City Council Meeting alot of interesting things came to light. As time allows we will cover all of it. For now though, I thought everyone would be interested in what the Mayor had to say in response to a residents question about what the $616,200.00 figure in the 2006/2007 proposed budget actually pays for. We have been asking what this service will include, but have never gotten a response.....until now:

The Mayor finally told us what we already knew, but could not get her to confirm. The "City Paid Trash Service" will not include "City Paid" yard waste and recycling pickup. We still do not know what else we will have to pay for beyond that.

However, earlier during that same conversation Councilman Knode said "it could be done I guess" when asked to include specific details in the proposed "City Paid" Trash ballot measure.

We are all glad to hear that Mr. Knode, and we are looking forward to getting those details, specifically how much the residents will still have to pay personally for this "City Paid" service ($9.65 / month would be my guess).

The proposed ordinance for "City Paid Trash Service" would add a question to the ballot asking the residents to vote yes or no. That proposed ordinance appears below:

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Most of it is the legal language needed for an ordinance to be legal, or to satisfy election law. However the Ballot question proposed would ask:

"Shall the City of Overland, Missouri, provide City Paid Trash Service
to the residents of Overland, St.Louis County, Missouri?"

That is all that the ballot would say should that ordinance pass. No mention of what "City Paid Trash Service" means (as you can see above the Mayor already told us that it doesn't include yard waste or recycling), or what the residents will still have to pay for the yard waste, recycling and more that the Mayor already pointed out was not included in the proposed City Budget (if you call Allied Waste they will tell you that their contracts HAVE to include yard waste and recycling pickup).

More on this meeting later.