PETITION : GARBAGE AND RECYCLING<\/p>\n
To The City of Ottawa Council through
\nThe Honourable _____________________ (elected Oct. 27, 2014)
\nMayor of Ottawa<\/p>\n
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WHEREAS One of the \u201ccore services\u201d provided by the municipal government which is of concern to the citizens of Osgoode Ward is \u2013 GARBAGE \/ RECYCLING<\/p>\n
WHEREAS We find that City of Ottawa staff and Council have approached this issue haphazardly, with lack of necessary due diligence and without properly consulting the citizens.<\/p>\n
WHEREAS Council and city staff entered into the Orgaworld Contract \u201cirresponsibly\u201d and enacted the green bin program even though the contracted organic waste numbers were unachievable.<\/p>\n
WHEREAS Taxpayers were promised overall costs of this service would decrease as a result of bi-weekly garbage collection, which in fact, we now find we were misled with almost $8 million dollars in \u201cunnecessary payments\u201d being already made.<\/p>\n
WHEREAS We the citizens of Osgoode Ward as a result of information released from the Orgaworld Audit have lost faith in the green bin program and the Orgaworld Contract as currently constructed.<\/p>\n
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WE the undersigned petition the City of Ottawa Council as follows:
\n1 \u2013 Return Weekly curbside Garbage Collection immediately
\n2 \u2013 Re-Open the Orgaworld Contract and re-work it to reflect proper financial realities and \u201cachievable \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0diversion\u201d numbers for our organics
\n3 \u2013 Direct City staff to continue to explore viable alternative waste diversion methods.<\/p>\n
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PETITION : GARBAGE AND RECYCLING To The City of Ottawa Council through The Honourable _____________________ (elected Oct. 27, 2014) Mayor of Ottawa WHEREAS One of the \u201ccore services\u201d provided by the municipal government which is of concern to the citizens of Osgoode Ward is \u2013 GARBAGE \/ RECYCLING WHEREAS …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":242,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions\/274"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}