Pete,
I fully realize that seniors call city officials regularly. They have the time to do so, which proves my point. I also realize that you're trying to be helpful, and your effort is appreciated and understood.

If we can return to the topic for a moment. I question why our town has recycling and many of the places we accept trash from do not have the same requirements?????? Why are others able to fill up our landfill with recyclables and we are being environmentally responsible???

wannabe30, thats great your son works for next to nothing, whats that have to do with my comment? Are you upset that he doesnt get paid like a real firefighter?

aparentwhocares- "Looser" is an adjective.

We should just cut the health insurance they receive , that way are taxes will go down . and when they needed to apply for badger care are taxes can pay for that instead... The way some people think is just crazy stupid..I think things are hard for everyone and if we start picking on the ones who are lucky to still have a good job and have insurance.. the ones without a job or insurance, will be lucky to ever recover from this economic time we are in...ya maybe some things can be looked at like vacation time , but to cut the fundamentals is not what we should be doing.

TechMasterFlex may not be the best with words, but worker compensation MUST be looked at now. Everything is changing, and the tax payers that pay their wages just aren't making as much anymore. Either taxes go down, or people will move out.

My comment is to tech master, about volunteer firefighters, my son is one he goes on a fire call or an accident he is paid $6.00. He dies at that call, his estate gets $10,000.00 he does not have any benefits he does this because he loves it. Your comment about city employees is absolutely ridicules

It's obvious that TechMasterFlex
makes very little money himself.

wow , yet another creep on here. I am so sorry beeferer I never clamed to be a author , editor or a english teacher . You are really going to call me on that. Now I can just call you a looser. : )

Does this go into effect immediately?

I've got two things:
1. With all due respect to senior citizens (I have a 70-year-old mother living in town), why is everything of convenience centered on people who have an unlimited amount of time in which to do things? I work an odd shift, my wife works days and has occasional night events come up, and we have children who are involved in things and have nightly homework. Adjusting compost site or landfill hours that are already too limited does not help those who face daily time crunches. I'm sorry, but saying time changes would confuse seniors isn't a good enough reason to not make this service available to working families.
2. I have nothing but appreciation for the city's police, fire, garbage, water, etc. people. I appreciate knowing there are people curtailing crime, putting out fires and picking up the trash (snow plowing is another issue, however). But I have to say this - it goads me that every time I drive out to the compost site, I have a guy sitting in a little booth doing nothing but telling me to turn left to dump my grass or go "all the way down" to dump branches. I've been there before when I swear the guy is watching television in there. Isn't there more this guy could be doing? Paperwork for the city, maybe? I realize he's trapped as he has to direct people, but I'd love to know what he makes an hour to sit in that little shack most of the time.

Anyway, that's my two cents.

This city builds a parking ramp that in the same lot that the old parking ramp was torn down for how much? The bike tunnel cost. Saving the ice arena. Buying crappy houses. And now they want to charge for our garbage pick up...I HATE THIS CITY! The city council members are all morons!

Synergy08- "techmaster, your a fool. That is all"

aparentwhocares- "your just a creep"

Come on you guys! If YOU'RE going to do some name calling, make sure you get YOUR grammar correct, otherwise YOU'RE going to look foolish due to YOUR inability to spell.

your –pronoun
(a form of the possessive case of you used as an attributive adjective): Your jacket is in that closet. I like your idea.

you're
Contraction of you are.

TechMasterFlex- Wow Not sure what you consider fun, but a volunteer for a fire department probably wouldn't consider being first at a scene of a car accident fun. You couldn't pay me enough to be a cop and have to respond to a domestic situation. Maybe you should go back to bed and start over.

martin05, they only do that at the end of their runs.
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BBB, like any other enterprise, it needs to be priced appropriately. If it's too low, we get taken advantage of. If it's too high, the "business" goes elsewhere.

techmaster, your a fool. That is all

I'd rather pay for services with my taxes than condemned houses and ice arenas

wow TechMasterFlex
if you had it your way we would all be slaves..if there are no good paying jobs out there then all of the lower income people would start making less and less...and if you want to make that kinda money maybe you should have applied for the job ... let's see you put your life on the line like a cop or a fire fighter..and most that work as volinteer fire fighters move on to bigger cities and use the experiance to get a better paying job...your just a creep

TechMasterFlex, isn't it a bit early in the day to troll?

The city of Janesville wants us to pay to have our trash picked up. This will generate money for the city but when I see as many as 3 trash trucks on a city street playing leap frog picking up trash I wonder where they are saving money by doing this.

Its clear to me that its time that the city workers take a cut. The days of GM pay checks are done. They need to be making $12 an hour with little to no benefits just like everyone else. Why should the tractor guy make so much at the landfill, he has a machine that does his job for him just like the undeserving GM people!! And why should a firefighter make so much? A lot of them work for free at volunteer departments for fun! The writing is on the wall, they will do it for free. Cops get paid a ton of money to just sit around all day.

The reason they bring trash from out of the county it is cheaper than operating their own
landfill.