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Montville Residents Kick Trash Pickup to the Curb

Trash pickup is dumped. Montvillians love their transfer station -- it's a community center of sorts. And no one wanted to see taxes raised a dime to pay for curbside pickup.

 

Resident after resident came to the podium Monday night in a packed, standing room-only Council Chambers each echoing the other’s sentiment: no town-wide trash pickup for Montville.

More than 100 people gathered and more than 20 spoke in opposition to a plan promoting the proposal until last week when he withdrew his support after contentious debate on Patch.

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And though he said he would no longer stand behind the plan which would have residents pay for town-wide pickup through a local property tax increase, McFee did himself come to the podium to speak once again in favor, though his remarks fell on deaf ears.

“This isn’t the kind of thing you drop in people’s laps. It’s a huge change,” said Town Councilor Chuck Longton, who is chair of the Council’s Solid Waste Committee. The charge fell to Longton after McFee backed out.

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“But tonight, with such overwhelming non–support, I don’t think I can reasonably see this go forward. At the next (solid waste committee meeting) I’ll make a motion to kill the effort,” Longton said to applause. 

One after the other, save for McFee, councilors agreed the concept is dead.

"Let's do away with this. The people have spoken," said Town Councilor Billy Caron. 

“After hearing what I heard tonight …the people don’t want it,” said Joe Jaskiewicz.

And so town-wide trash pickup for Montville has been dumped.

 

 


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