The Santa Ana City Council “voted 7-0 on Monday night to increase the amount it charges for trash service at apartment complexes and businesses,” according to the O.C. Register.
Don’t the poorest people in our city live in apartment complexes? And aren’t our businesses already hurting due to the Bush Depression?
Santa Ana City Manager Dave Ream also announced that he is going to lay off 45 workers. Will he lay off any of his overpaid administrators? Do we really need BOTH Jill Arthur AND Catherine Standiford? Which one of them is in charge of changing Ream’s Depends?
And why hasn’t Ream apologized for conniving the idiots on our City Council to vote for a pension spike last year?
In related news, “Usual Suspect” Tim Rush spoke up at the City Council meeting on Monday. He went there to scream about poor people picking through his trash. Nice. People are desperate enough to pick through his trash and he wants them to get busted? Santa Ana Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez told him to take a hike, but of course Mayor Miguel Pulido and perennially heartless Councilman Carlos Bustamante railed against those damned trash-pickers. I am sure the rest of the Usual Suspects were thrilled to have Pulido’s and Busty’s support.
The trash rate hikes are just the tip of the iceberg. Standiford was hired as an Assistant City Manager because of her experience in raising fees at other cities.
My advice, if your trash rates are going up, is that you start recycling your trash, such as aluminum cans and newspapers, and getting money for that material, to offset the higher rates. Or give them to the poor folks that are picking through Rush’s trash. This will also put the screws to the city and to the city’s trash hauler, Waste Management.
And brace yourselves. More fee increases are surely on the way…
We need to work together
Our city is suffering incredible BLOWS by the people we voted into office.
ITS TIME FOR CHANGE…
Maybe someone should count the trash cans at Pulido’s place, looks like 9 or 10 to me, although only one for recycling.
Actually the time for change was last November. Not enough people agreed with us in Santa Ana. Still working together we can ride it out until we get to make some more changes next time. Some of these people in office blow, I’ll agree with you on that.
I used to live in a Santa Ana apartment complex about a year and a half ago (I currently live in Corona) and at the time, the trash service (W/M) I thought was a bit too high, I can’t imagine how high the rates will be now? OUCH! Never mind the money those poor residents have to put into repairing their car tires due to many pot holes needing filling and repairing their vehicles after the 3rd breakin from enclosed complex garages, yes I’m talking from personal experience. Hence why I moved. These greedy bastards who pull the local city political strings seem to love targeting the lower class but fail to look in their vanity mirrors. Great post Art.
What is this city council thinking? The ‘poor’ that occupied the majority of these apartments complexed in Santa Ana have moved to the outlying San Bernardino/Riverside county area because the rental rates in the OC still are not cheap. Do they think that can get more blood from a turnip? I feel sorry for those renters that will be taking it again on the backside. The City of Santa Ana Waste Management is a waste. I had to call them THREE times this week to pick up our Christmas tree that had been sitting on the curbside since Sunday and we didn’t even see the street sweeper yesterday in our area. I also was advised on Monday by a very good source that SAPD will begin checks through the neighborhoods for any cars parked on the street with expired registration tags, parked illegally, etc.. and will begin citing.
I also asked very good source when that lame department, ‘Code Enforcement’ will finally begin to do it’s job around the city. She just laughed hysterically…..
I understood that the recycling scavengers were actually trespassing on the residents property to access the cans…actually going up to the private residences. If this is the case, I don’t blame the residents and would be upset, as well.
THEY SHOULD LAYOFF “DAVE WEAM” INSTEAD.
WAY TO GO WEAM!
Booper-
I couldn’t agree more. Private property is private property wait until its out by the curb.
But on a side note if people are not cashing in on their own items for recycling then certainly someone else willing to do the mini version of the dumpster dive should be allowed to do just that.
I read most of this on the register online yesterday morning minus the Usual Suspects rant (still a great movie…still waiting for the hard list of those suspects too!)
Didn’t Ream just a year or less ago get a 15 percent raise on oh what 220+k? at least he lives in Santa Ana and understands the citizens! oh wait he lives in Coto De Caza, stay classy!