Monticello outlines rules for new trash pick-up, issues apology
The City of Monticello issued an apology Friday for inconveniences caused in its efforts to convert to a new trash pick-up system. The city is converting from bag pick up to cart pick up and converting from a twice-a-week pick up service to a once-a-week pick up service.
Every address with a new garbage cart will be picked up one day a week, based on the ward in which the customer lives.
Ward 1 pick up is on Mondays.
Ward 2 pick up is on Tuesdays
Ward 3 pick up is on Thursday
Ward 4 pick up is on Fridays.
On holidays, those wards will be picked up the following Wednesday.
Customers who don’t know which ward they live in should call Monticello City Hall at 367-3415.
Carts must be placed at the curb in the proper way for pick up. The silver bar must be facing the street, the lid must be closed, and the cart cannot be within four feet of any other object. If it is not placed at the curb in the proper way the trash cannot be picked up.
Customers who have not yet received a cart should continue placing their trash in bags until their new cart arrives. The city ran out of carts for Ward 4 customers but has ordered more.
4 Comments
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I originally was excited about this, but after having it only one week, I see it doesn’t work too well for my family. My trash pickup is on Thursday, here it is Friday and the can is full, overflowing if you will, and they won’t pick up the trash if it is anywhere outside of that trash can. As well as with the rule of the lid having to be closed, I will have trash still here unless I haul it to the dump myself.
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On one hand, it’s good to see the City of Monticello move forward. However, this automation seems to come with a reduction of services by accepting less trash less often. That’s taking the city in the wrong direction.
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Certainly the city council and the mayor have the authority to change the garbage pick up system. They do, however, have a responsibility to notify the citizens before instituting such a change. The city has picked up garbage on my street on Mondays and Thursdays for the entire twenty eight years I have lived at my present address. This week, all the people on my street put out our trash on Monday. No one picked it up. Same thing on Thursday. By Friday morning stray dogs and wild animals had scattered trash all up and down the street. Then the city truck came by and picked up the bags of trash that weren’t scattered everywhere. There was no notification. I suppose the council and mayor thought that we could consult our crystal ball and realize that these changes were being made. I still don’t know what the plan is, since the city has not given me any official information. This is just one more indication that the city is not being run in an efficient manner.
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Now that trash pickup will be limited to one time per week instead of two does that mean that our cost for services will decrease as well? Half the job should mean half the cost for citizens!
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