First if you feel like getting up to date with this on going sage here is the chronology
“Pack it Home”
More Trash News
Five days. 172,000 people. 145 tons of trash.
Second, here are the two IVP press articles on the subject
Supes oppose trash
Supes oppose trash part deux
The bottom line.
District 5 Supervisor Wally Leimgruber has gone to bat for keeping the trash service running. Essentially what he has done is put in writing that they oppose the removal of the trash bins and thus formally let the BLM know. In his words “memorialize” the idea in writing. I would imagine that the BLM probably has nothing but respect for the imperial county board of supervisors(yeah right!), the ones that do the budget anyway, so this will no doubt accomplish nothing. When I spoke to Wally on the phone he let me know the only other thing we can do to help him out is contact the senators and even the local congressman. While I think all of it is a step in the right direction I myself am far too cynical to waste my time contacting them especially after the CA legislature today attempted to ILLEGALLY raise taxes.
On a side note the trash service that has the contract has been quoted in the paper saying that he could keep his price fixed for the next 5 years. Seems he is only willing to do so for another year. Moreover, all comments that I have been reading in the local press point to local operators wanting a crack at the service. Makes me think that a little competition in there and the price of the service could be significantly cut from the 400k a year it costs now. One comment in particular that I read broke it down to costing $1095 per day when the area is only really used 9 months a year and only really heavily on 15 weekends or so. A grand a day does seem pretty ridiculous to me.
Keep GLAMIS clean…