Friday, July 16, 2010

CM McLaughlin inadvertently opens Pandora's Box of ordinance enforcement.

Well, it says so, right there in Daniel Suddeath's council meeting report:

Approving the (garbage pickup contract) extension without bids “deflates what we passed that ordinance for,” McLaughlin said in reference to the 2008 measure the council approved calling for bids for services.
Having already emptied his can of worms to become the second of two receptacles on a new cannular communications system (we can't afford string yet) with Steve Price, CM McLaughlin now has said openly and publicly what heretofore has been whispered only privately between non-consenting neighborhood association operatives:

NEW ALBANY PAYS NO ATTENTION TO ITS OWN LAWS.

Now what?

3 comments:

Jeff Gillenwater said...

The way it stands now, we have a contract with a company to pick up things that citizens can't legally set out anyway, and if and when they do, they owe the City Clerk five bucks per pickup that they will have already paid for.

It's no wonder people just toss piles of junk in the alleys. The laws don't make any sense, a hardship only curtailed by the lack of enforcement you mention.

Matt Nash said...

At one point Price said he would be willing to pick up trash and he volunteered the use of Coffey's truck.

RememberCharlemagne said...

I think it points to the importance of Mr. Lorch's efforts in trying to clarify New Albany's archaic ordinances.