When "Yes" Means "No"

You’d never guess it from the seemingly innocuous language of Proposition A on the April 5^th ballot, but this is one time when “Yes” really means “No”.  Proposition A purports to amend Jefferson City’s citywide trash/recycling contract to only require residents to have trash service but not to require an “authorized collector”.

The problem is that without an authorized collector there is no way to enforce the trash service requirement.  Police and code enforcement staff can’t be staking out everyone’s houses to make sure that everyone has a trash service.  We'd be back to rampant illegal dumping.

Even worse, eliminating the “authorized collector” puts Jefferson City in breach of a $2,000,000 contract with Allied Waste.  That’s the end of our trash/curbside recycling program and the beginning of a lawsuit costing us hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars.  In short, Proposition A says “no” to everything we want in Jefferson City.

So how are you going to vote?

-          NO,  because you want to keep our curbside recycling;

-          NO,  because you don’t want to pay $5.00 to $10.00 more each month for trash service;

-          NO, because businesses don’t need to be paying any more for their trash service than they do now;

-          NO, because you don’t want to return to the days of illegal dumping in backyards, basements, public parks and commercial dumpsters;

-          NO, because the money we pay to Allied Waste should go for trash service, not legal damages; and

-          NO, because you want to continue to live in a prosperous, attractive, and progressive community.

DON’T THROW A GOOD THING AWAY.  GO TO THE POLLS ON APRIL 5^TH AND VOTE “NO” ON PROPOSITION A.