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Originally Posted by stampsx2
Why are garbage trucks doing runs on holidays? What a waste of taxpayer money.
They get paid double time and who knows what else. I don't mind waiting an extra day or two. It's not a neccessary service like police or ems that they need to work on holidays. This city needs a much more fiscally conservative stand before signing contracts with unions.
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Assuming garbage operates at 90% capacity it would take 10 days (2 weeks) to catch up.
I think the only options would be to
A) skip a week of garbage collection for the Friday and Monday people whenever stats fall on them
b) move everyone in the cities collection day by one day into the future every stat day.
Would you be willing not to have garbage pick up 5 or 6 weeks a year for Friday stats? I think I could manage but it would definately generates tons of complaints by Friday/Monday people that they pay the same for garbage collection and don't get the same service.
Now b is a neat idea but the amount of communication required and confusion it would generate having your pickup day change every month likely makes it a non starter.
My personal solution would be to dial back garbage and recycling to every 2nd week to cut the cost in half. This would save us money and then we wouldn't have to worry about the OT costs.