Guelph Council Priorities Starting to Smell
by admin on Sep.13, 2011, under GUELPH, POLITICS
Hey Guelph City Hall would you mind storing my daughter’s soiled diapers for an extra week?
Apparently you believe it’s not too much of an inconvenience to parents of young children. Maybe it’s time you did your part for the environment.
Picking up smelly trash once a week use to be a basic service you could count on your local municipality to do. No longer here in Guelph.
This past month the city cut back the collection of many items including diapers and sanitary products to every other week from the regular weekly collection.
This might be understandable if the city was in a budget hole or the tax base was eroding. Not so here in Guelph. Budgets are increasing each year along with our perennial property tax hike.
The problem lies in this city not making their core services a funding priority. Environmental rebate programs and recycling centres can have a place for city that wants to label itself “Green”. But they can’t be funded at the expense of core services.
Without an understanding of what its priorities should be – I guess I should not be surprised when the city announces funding for an advanced toilet training pilot program for newborns.
Potty humour aside – getting it wrong happens. But on this issue the city is demonstrating irresponsibility and contempt for many Guelph residents.
