In all the letters and newspaper articles about bag tags for garbage collection, I have not seen anything relating to how the city plans on calculating and collecting these fees.
Are the people responsible for collecting the garbage also going to be responsible for counting the bags and reporting "violators" to the city? (Is this "other related duties?") I am already having visions of people with clipboards walking down the back lanes furiously writing down house addresses where there are too many bags of garbage. What about multiple residents
in one house, for example, people who rent rooms or suites? How does the city plan to find out who is responsible for the extra bag of garbage? What about apartment buildings that use private collectors?
And what kind of a system is going to be set up for invoicing and collecting these charges? Cost of sending a bill via mail is probably higher than the $1.50 charge in itself, what with paper and postage costs nowadays, not including costs for personnel and equipment needed to produce this bill, track payment and collect delinquent accounts. Is this to be done by existing city
employees now, or is this simply just another job-creation program?
LINDA MCLEOD