November 24, 2011
Victoria residents will soon receive a survey asking
them to vote on three new garbage collection options.
Unfortunately, all three options offer only ‘curbside
return’. This means residents will now have to
carry or drag their garbage totes from the curb to the
backyard.
As municipal workers, our main concerns are the health
and safety of the public. We want to be able to continue
to provide full backyard pick-up service. We believe
this is the safest option for residents.
What does “full backyard pick-up service”
mean? It means resident won’t have to worry about
moving their garbage tote at all. City workers will
continue to pick up garbage in the backyard and return
the tote to the backyard.
If you would like to keep receiving “full backyard
pick-up service” we encourage you to vote for
“Option A”. This is the closest option to
the current service - the only difference is that your
tote would be left on the curb.
If “Option A” offered ‘backyard return’
there would be no additional cost. “Option A”
will cost $229 with ‘curbside return’ or
with “backyard return”.
If you want your tote to be returned to your backyard,
please write “backyard tote collection and backyard
tote return” in the comments section on your survey.
It is our hope that if enough people request “backyard
return” the City will amend ‘Option A’
to include it.
LOCAL
50 NEIGHBOURS AT WORK FOR YOU AT THE CHAMBER STREET
COMMUNITY GARDEN!
Take
the 10% Shift
Check out the website links and take the Ten Percent
Shift pledge! If enough of us shift just ten percent
of our household spending to local goods and services
from locally owned businesses, we can make a huge impact
on the local economy.
Christy
Clark Trust Me ... Really?
Trust us.
Forget all the times we've broken our promises to you
-- this time it will be different.
You have our word on it.
That's what the BC Liberal government is telling voters
about the Harmonized Sales Tax.
Believe that they will introduce changes they pledged
last week to bring in -- trying to buy your vote with
your own money -- but only if you agree to keep the
HST in the June binding referendum.
Here's what Clark said on March 21 on Vancouver's CKYE
Red FM 93.1 on why she would not cut the HST rate:"We
aren't going to be talking about trying to reduce it
by a point or two before the referendum. I mean, I think
people will see that as buying them with their own money,"
Clark said.
Now she's trying to buy us with our own money! She
does think we're stupid.
And why give a $175 grant for every child under age
18 without any regard for the family income level?
Why give $175 to someone making $200,000 a year? Or
$150,000 a year?
But guess who qualifies for that $175 grant -- Premier
Christy Clark and Finance Minister Kevin Falcon, who
each have a child.
Second, can you believe a BC Liberal government that
said it wouldn't introduce an HST, then did so after
the election, will cut the HST in 2012 to 11 per cent?
Or that three full years from now it will cut the HST
to 10 per cent in 2014?
Can you trust a government that swore the HST would
be revenue neutral, then admitted it would raise an
extra $820 million a year?
Who can have faith in desperate BC Liberals who said
in March 2010 that every dollar from the HST would go
to health care, when that's just not true.
Why would you believe a government that promised a
15 per cent income tax cut for all British Columbians
last October to convince us to support the HST and then
rescinded the tax cut just weeks later?On the HST changes
themselves, most British Columbians will still pay more
even if the BC Liberals actually do cut the rate to
11 per cent.
That's because you will still pay an extra six per
cent on hundreds of goods and services.
The extra six per cent HST would still apply to restaurant
food, basic cable TV, telephone, household cleaning,
maintenance, and renovations, sports events, movies,
gym membership, domestic plane, train or bus travel,
taxis, parking, dry cleaning, vitamins, massage therapy,
some school supplies, snack foods, haircuts and far
more.
In three years if the rate is cut to 10 per cent you
will still pay five per cent more on all these things
than you did back in June 2009.
Is it any wonder the BC Liberal government is trying
to buy your vote with a multi-million dollar ad campaign?
Or that big business is spending millions to keep the
massive tax shift that makes consumers pay more and
corporations pay less?
What
has the Union Movement ever done for us?
