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Mayor open to purchase of larger carts
Katz prefers one-time fee over annual bin charges
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Crews deliver rolling garbage carts to northwest Winnipeggers last month. Allowing larger bins is still being debated by city.
The trash talk at city hall is bound to drag on through February, as Mayor Sam Katz's executive policy committee is poised to overturn another committee's decision to kibosh bigger garbage carts.
Speaking to reporters outside his office on Wednesday morning, Katz said he likes the idea of allowing northwest Winnipeg residents to purchase larger or additional garbage carts -- but only for a one-time fee, not the annual fees the water and waste department recommended to council's public works committee.
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In case you're not keeping score at home, this latest garbage flap started earlier this month, when the city replaced garbage cans at northwest Winnipeg homes with new 240-litre rolling carts that can be emptied automatically.
After first insisting one cart size could serve all, the water and waste department came up with a plan to allow residents who have too much trash to fit into a 240-litre cart -- the rough equivalent of three heavy-duty garbage bags -- to swap their cart for a 360-litre cart. But the extra space would come at a price -- a $33 annual fee.
The plan would also allow residents to get a second 240-litre cart for $93 a year, or two 360-litre carts for $113 a year. The annuals fees are needed to recover the cost of collecting additional garbage, the water and waste department said in a report. But on Tuesday, council's public works committee voted against this plan, as Couns. Harry Lazarenko (Mynarski) and Dan Vandal (St. Boniface) said it would offer no incentive for households to minimize waste.
Now, the mayor says he'd be inclined to vote for the plan, provided residents are charged just once and not every year.
"For me, a one-time fee makes sense," saud the mayor, declining to comment on the financial implications of not collecting annual fees.
Nevertheless, the mayor's comments mean it's likely executive policy committee will overturn the public works committee's decision when the Katz's inner-circle meets on Feb. 17. A big council debate will take place Feb. 24.
The mayor, who hosted a one-day conference called A Sustainable Winnipeg in 2009, also said he believes Winnipeggers can be encouraged to recycle more. He also said he supports the idea of a city-wide curbside compost-collection program -- provided the city can figure out a way to pay for it.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 11, 2010 A5
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