City putting on old fashioned school board squeeze play (Cincinnati: real estate, house) - Ohio (OH) - City-Data Forum

Wilson513 · 04-20-2011, 11:58 AM

Well, you knew it was coming, right? The City has to dump their mistakes onto the poor taxpayer instead of learning to live within a budget.

So, the City has pulled out the old make them miserable and they won't resist play used so effectively by school boards forever. First, you cancel the bus service and the athletics until the parents start screaming for meetings and some solution. then you get everyone behind a big tax levy.

The City has just canceled yard waste pickup because of budget cuts. Now wait for the tax increase movement.

Ohiogirl81 · 04-20-2011, 01:11 PM

This makes how many times the city has canceled the yard waste pickup?

If a tax hike won't fly, watch for a trash collection fee. That's what the city I live in did; instead of raising taxes (which in Pennsylvania can be done without voter approval anyway), they chunked a $150, non-tax-deductible trash fee per single-family household onto our property tax bills.

Wilson513 · 04-20-2011, 01:16 PM

For my part, I am burning all of my yard waste until the City starts picking it up again. If the fire deaprtment comes, they had better have a search warrant.

Sarah Perry · 04-20-2011, 03:11 PM

I'm confused. I thought they discontinued the specific yard waste pickup months or even a couple years ago, and told people to just start putting yard waste in with the regular garbage. Luckily not an issue for us, what with the woods in back of the house and all.

Sarah Perry · 04-20-2011, 05:12 PM

City To Suspend Yard Waste Collection Friday - Project Economy News Story - WLWT Cincinnati (http://www.wlwt.com/money/20443123/detail.html - broken link)

progmac · 04-20-2011, 07:42 PM

they picked a time of year when everybody has like 4 bags / cans of yard waste, too - preparing for the season. our street is littered with unemptied yard waste cans and bags. i am slowly burning mine now, plus hiding it in my regular garbage. it discourages people maintaining / beautifying their yards - with our small lots, agrarian pursuits are dense and waste management simply can't happen on site. and unless you have a truck and a lot of time on your hands, the suburban waste collection sites aren't an option.

Wilson513 · 04-20-2011, 10:34 PM

Its really despicable. The incremental cost of yard waste collection has to be tiny compared with the 28 million budget hole. They are already at the house. They are already putting the solid waste in the truck. The truck is already going to the dump. What? Is this about the truck weight when it gets to the landfill?

These politicians are totally corrupt.

blowingdown · 04-21-2011, 02:45 AM

One problem with Americans - they always want their cities to improve but NEVER want to pay for it. Everyone in Cincinnati complains about the awful schools but the levies consistently fail.

progmac · 04-21-2011, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by blowingdown

One problem with Americans - they always want their cities to improve but NEVER want to pay for it. Everyone in Cincinnati complains about the awful schools but the levies consistently fail.

...this thread is really about yard waste. our city schools are fairly well-funded.

Wilson513 · 04-21-2011, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by blowingdown

One problem with Americans - they always want their cities to improve but NEVER want to pay for it. Everyone in Cincinnati complains about the awful schools but the levies consistently fail.

The levies almost always pass except in some very small outlying districts. We put 1 billion dollars in the hands of the CPS not 10 years ago which is all now squandered on schools that are ill conceived and unneeded. (Did you see the one that was closed during a little high water that they located in what is one of the best pieces of development real estate in Cincinnati at Stanley and Kellogg? It looks like homeless camp and sits on stilts and is located in a place where there are no children. These people are idiots. How about Peoples School where they built it and tore it down 20 years later and are building again. And, again where there are no children except those who can be bussed in from across town. Smart. They have their hand out again. Perhaps, this once, they will get a spanking.

We pay a 2.1% income tax to a city that has no statutory duties other than those minimal tasks of an incorporated city under Ohio law and they undertake everything but those duties (which, by the way should certainly include taking the solid yard waste to a dump).