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As some of you may know, currently the Mason City City Council is looking into privatizing the Garbage/Recycling/ and Lawn Waste Bags collection in town. Currently all users in Mason City pay under 10 dollars a month for the above services.
Facts:
1.Refuse Collection is not Tax Payer funded, it is funded by user fees.
2.The fee is based off of the break-even point for all costs associated with refuse collection in Mason City
3.All Lawn Waste Bags are picked up for free by the Sanitation Dept.
How can a for profit company beat this? By taking a loss the first year and sticking to the customers from there on out?????
If privatizing refuse pick up in Mason City seems like a bad idea, contact your counsel person and let them know.
All that and $1 will get you a cup of coffee at the end of the day.
Oh no Matt! Please do not EVER block Peter. He is my entertainment! LOL I love reading what he has to say. I am in tears anytime I finish reading something from him. I think I maybe in love! LMAO
Jessica Chambers, I wish you much success in your endeavor. Let others take note, Jessica is doing it the old fashioned way, going out and building a business from the ground up. Her advert is in the NIT classifieds.
It is how America was built, one person, one business at a time. It takes guts, determination, and I am sure a whole lot of sweat. Good for her!
You should go to the globe site this will show Matt he cant do that to a special person like you
You said, “Matt is like a little boy who takes the ball home with him when he loses.” Boy, if that is not like calling the kettle black. WOW! Never surprised.
Torch of liberty home to WHAT? Peter you are quite delusional. You think that bitching about how you got the short end of the stick on a regular basis makes you some kind of “revolutionary” is quite comical. You sound like some entitled teen/tween that thinks the world owes them something. Get off your ass and do something more than taking your car apart and you MAY gain some respect.
Is this right Matt? If so, why?
Long over due there Peter, Long over due.
Why is it some dog owners do not clean there yard of dog poo? I can’t hardly stand the smell in my front yard because the nieghbor has a lab that they let out on a chain an it poo’s all over there front yard, they never pick any of it up.
The dog barks alot when it is outside to. Going to be a long summer for all of us because I’m not going to continue to put up with the noise or the smell for the entire summer!
i have not been in out mall for sometime until recently. wow what a joke that place is, theres more empty stores then ever before. i went down by the old movie theater and didnt realize the not only is the theater gone but also the arcade and a couple other shops. y hasent someone or the city show movies in their? i mean its not that bad of space to be using. instead of having the ten dollar shows or whatever they are out west have some cheaper ones their! i would love that cause i could actually take the whole family and not spend $100. anyone else see my point?
Maybe the officer didn’t recognize you for the charming, handsome and powerful intellectual figure you think you are. I’m sure that happens to you quite often though, so you are most likely used to it by now.
How did your Mike Wallace investigation of the Clear Lake PD turn out? Remember, you were going to find out why they were attempting to stop the young delinquent on the motorcycle?
Has anyone been hire full time for Ann BUtchers job in city hall. I know they hired a temp but have not seen any job announcement for the position full time.
Does anyone know if all cities in Iowa have a minimum amount for the monthly water bill? I live alone and my monthly bill is $35.78 every month, whether I use any water or not. In fact, I spend six months of the year down south and I still pay $35.78 every month, using NO water, sewer or garbage services. It doesn’t seem right. Is this the way most cities do it? By the way, my monthly water bill down south is a little more than $2.00 a month.
I have a question for the motorcycle riders out there.Is it legal for a motorcycle to split,drive in between, two cars on a four lane road.I’ve heard it was legal in California but I didn’t know about Iowa?Even if its legal it sure looks dangerous.I saw this happen on 122 eastbound by TSC.
I am so sick and tired of this crap with my fiancee’s charges from when he was 14 being brought up on NORTH IOWA MUGSHOTS AND NOW here on NORTH IOWA TODAY. BOTH ARE GREAT WEBSITES TO READ ABOUT PEOPLE IN OUR AREA DOING WRONG. The charges that were pressed against him were dropped due to the fact that there WAS NO TRUTH TO THEM!!!!!!!!!! I want our names removed off of the story about the face book page FED UP!!! He IS NOT a sex offender, he didnt do anything like that to anyone in his life. SO please remove our names and anything that has to do with us on the story about FED UP even its anonymous or from NANCY BLOCK
Im not the only one? They told me things like this take time, and its not their fault. Mine was paid off 42 days after I traded in my Chevy! Will never buy from that place again!
Interesting, thanks for posting.
Robbin Anderson, ask her what happened to her last job before she had all her friends lobby the Chamber Board for a job.
What I’m getting sick and tired of is the bus drivers cussing at the little kids on the bus. Telling them to sit the F down. I have heard this my self. He cussed at a kid cause he stood up to get something while the bus was parked dropping off my kids. Also the school harding is allowing my child to be picked on. I had reported it tons of times and the principal says oh we dont allow bullying here. Ya right that is why my child comes home crying day after day. My child says kids have threatened to knock their teeth in one kid threatened to stab my child Another kid punched my at the bus stop. The school is allowing this to happen.