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Gary Votes For Garbage Fee
Produced by Michael Puente on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Works crews could be out as early as this morning collecting trash in Gary, Indiana. The city had been without trash collection for more than a week.
Trash will be picked up because the Gary City Council approved a $12 a month garbage collection fee at its meeting last night.
It was a tight vote, 5-4, for the fee. More than a hundred residents packed the City Council chambers for the meeting, with most opposed to the fee that will allow a private firm to haul waste instead of city work crews.
Gary Mayor Rudy Clay says a private firm can do the work cheaper than city. But Councilwoman Regan Hatcher doesn’t see it that way.
HATCHER: I’m very disappointed in the vote. I think this is just another step that the council has taken to say again to the citizens of the community that we are incapable of being able to do anything here, even things that are as simple as picking up the garbage.
About 50 city jobs were eliminated to allow the private company to do the work.
Opponents say they will challenge the council’s vote in court.
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