HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977 05-24 City orders hauler to work out garbage pick up schedule DISPATCH City orders hauler to work 4t-'9.2'%/99
out garbage pick up schedule
A trash hauler has been given ment on the areas and days of the south end on Thursday."
until June 1 to work out some sort collection.
of arrangement to pick up gar- Beermann said he has very few
' bage in southern Maplewood on "No such comments were forth- accounts in Maplewood and would
Tuesdays or else face a license coming from any company and it have to make a special trip to
suspension. was assumed that the areas and make collections on Tuesdays.
AT A RECENT council meet- days of collection proposed were
adequate and suit ble,"Miller
ing,City Manager Michael Miller , stated. Councilman Donald Wiegert
noted that the dispute regarding said if other haulers decided to
Beermann Services failure to pick At the council meeting,Miller make pick-ups other than Tues-
up garbage on Tuesdays has been g .days"we would have a whole
ongoing for nearly three years.In- contended that he had been more week of garbage bags down
stead the trash hauler has been than fair to Beermann. there."
making pickups on Thursdays,he BUT BEERMANN contended, Beermann contended that lie
said. "I think what we have had here is has been providing reliable ser-
' Miller pointed out that the citya failure to demonstrate any harm vice to his customers.But he add-
code authorizes him to make that has been rendered to the city ,ed,"I don't want to argue with
"rules and regulations concerning of Maplewood by us going through Maplewood...1 don't want to be
days of collection so as to limit r....+--- y, subjected to the severe humility of
area pickups to the same day per having my license suspended."
week each week."He has desig-
nated Tuesday as collection day in The city council has allowed
southern Maplewood. him to work out arrangements ei-
ther to begin collections on Tues-
Miller's file on the subject indi- day or swap his Maplewood route
cates that he wrote a letter to with some other hauler.
Bernie Beermann nearly three .
years ago regarding the pick-up
days.It stated in part,"4,t the
time the areas and days of collec-
tion were established,your com-
pany was given a chance to com-