Would you pay for something and not get it?

Of course not but the City Council is expecting all of us to do just that!

Let me explain.  The beautiful Garbage Fee is set to go from $6 a month to $13 a month starting in January.  Any homeowner who pays for water will be billed for this useless piece of shit fee that was dreamed up by Ransburg and the council a few years back. When you have a fat wallet, what’s a few bucks right? If you live from paycheck to paycheck, well, tough toenails. Remember folks, we were promised by council members that this fee would never go up and in fact would be a temporary fee.  Lie #1 and lie #2.  Also remember how some council members campaigned on the promise to remove this fee.  Lie #3.  Guess what? Ever seen a tax or a fee go away? Not in Peoria you won’t so how are you going to be paying for something and not get it?

Enter PDC. Our garbage company, locally owned and you can bet wine and dine buddies of a few council members and movers and shakers. They are to provide totes as part of that fee increase.  The rental fee of those totes is to be included in the $13 monthly fee.  Only thing is, the PDC company doesn’t have the totes and have to order them AFTER they mail out a survey to all Peoria residents next month.  Then, if we are lucky, we will get a tote by June or maybe July.  In the meantime, we will still pay that good ol monthly fee of $13 and get no tote for up to 6 months.  What a total crock of shit.

Hell, it’s just another tax that until the tote rental was factored in, had NOTHING to do with garbage collection which is charged by contract for the year and incorporated into your property taxes.  Property taxes?  Yes, something the council could have raised a tiny bit and they could have done away with the Garbage Fee, and the $80k a year Illinois-American Water collects for putting the damn fee on their bills.  They could have added police something the Lord knows Peoria could use and balanced the budget of the costs of running the city which is what property taxes are for. The property tax increase would have been something like $40 a year more per $100,000 home and everyone, residents and businesses (which use police, water, fire, and streets) would be paying a fair share.  But no.  For some reason, our city council avoids property tax increases like it was a fresh turd laying in the middle of a room.  You know it smells, but no one is going to touch it.   Our council would have to hire a consultant at a huge waste of money to come in, smell it, feel it, and then conclude it’s shit.  Then our council would have to form a department, hire a department head and staff so they in turn could recommend a person to pick up the turd.  Then, the council would argue for 45 minutes over the hiring and whether the turd is actually there or not before they would vote.  Then someone in the crowd leaving the council chambers would slip and fall on the turd and a lawsuit would ensue.  Randy Ray would look at the council with his usual straight face and say; “Yes, we could be liable for this turd.”  That’ll be $400 please.

This is why this city is ass backwards.  This is why when people are trying with all their might to keep their Peoria home, our council fiddles and builds glass museum's and hotels.  Meanwhile, just outside their doors, bullets are flying and nobody goes downtown. 

It amazes me that people are being led like sheep over this garbage fee and the fact we don’t have totes so we shouldn’t be paying for the rent.  If CILCO charged you for the neighbors electricity, you’d be up in arms. Why haven’t we run this council and Mayor out of town.  Can’t do it on a rail, they sold that but we could do it on one of those new buses.  Someone explain this to me please!  Why are we paying PDC for a service they haven’t provided????

And please do it before Turner suggests we get billed $3.25 a week for this Garbage Fee because he doesn’t want to stress the pocketbook of those on a fixed income.  Crock of shit.

 

Hat Tip: To my private email friend.