Un-trashing the city
Nov 01, 2006 09:20 | City Services
A recent letter in the South End News reveals a City strategy to privatize our trashcanization -- Mayor Menino is gradually removing many City trash cans unless somebody is willing to adopt them.

He's assuming that residents and businesses will get fed up enough with the City's negligence to just pay for services themselves -- this while our property taxes soar.

This has also been happening with parks:

Parks officials are doing more with less, something Commissioner Antonia Pollak calls creative management. She has been forced to rely more heavily on the private sector and the good will of committed residents to take over stewardship of neighborhood parks. The number of volunteer parks groups has grown from 60 to 87 during the past five years.



Have you noticed any removals of trash cans? Have you had to adopt any? What does it cost you?

What should we do about this hidden tax increase?
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