Dear Editor
Tuesday, April 22 the City crews came down our back lane, removing all the dumpsters. Several City employees and equipment spent several hours performing this removal.
The problem is that we hadn't yet been given any of the new rollout bins. I called the City and advised them of the problem. I was assured the dumpsters would be replaced shortly (they were removed accidentally, before they should have been) and we would get our rollout bins in short order.
Today is Friday, April 25 and still no dumpsters or bins. The garbage is beginning to build up and we have nowhere to put it ,so I called the City again.
I was told that the dumpsters should have been replaced yesterday (they weren't) and that we might get our rollout bin sometime in the next few days. We could be up to a week without a garbage can or dumpster.
The City has been planning this for a long time. One would have thought that the logistics would have been worked out before they started. That I am forced to call the City to complain that I have no way of storing my garbage four days after they removed our dumpsters shows they put little pre-thought into the rollout of this program.
Will somebody be held responsible for this logistical nightmare? I highly doubt it.
Perhaps opening up the landfill site free for a few weeks might help, but that would mean the City admitting it made a mistake.
For such a large, city-wide program to have such basic but major faults in its execution and implementation is appalling and inexcusable.
Dave Kenkel
North Battleford
