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Author    Post   Dave Starr F L I N T O I D Around here, not at all. We're in area 4, according to the map on the city web site, and no leaf pickup. On Wednesday, I called the street maintenance number listed on the pickup page & got voice mail. Left my name, number & message, no reply as of 5pm today. Also, I emailed Dawn Jones on Wednesday, since her email address was on the news release about the pickup schedule. I got a reply back saying she'd look into it & get back with me. Nothing as of 5 today. So, does anyone here know if the pickup is supposedly done, or are some areas being ignored? I know the Kensington Street area was cleaned up, what about the rest of Flint? _________________ I used to care, but I take a pill for that now. Pushing buttons sure can be fun. When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way. Paddle faster, I hear banjos. Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:59 pm  untanglingwebs El Supremo They only removed the leaves in the middle of the streets in my area. The leaves were so high even the school buses had trouble getting through. Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:52 pm  00SL2 F L I N T O I D Saw some being picked up near a Miller Road side street intersection Thursday. Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:40 am  Ryan Eashoo F L I N T O I D Woodcroft Estates looks terrible. Tons of leafs still in the road and it isn't cleaned up yet. _________________ Flint Michigan Resident, Tax Payer, Flint Nutt - Local REALTOR - Activist. www.FlintTown.com Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:03 pm  untanglingwebs El Supremo McCabe was in purchasing before he retired from the city. I don't know why they thought he was capable of handling transportation when they brought him out of retirement. So now they are paying McCabe and they had to bring Arnold Brown back from retirement for $70 k a year to do what McCabe is not capable of. We never had this much of a mess with Brown in charge. Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:00 pm  Ryan Eashoo F L I N T O I D But you must realize that it's hard to pick up leaves in a city the size of Flint on 8 hour days, 5 days a week. In the past they did it quicker with overtime. Some areas of the city still have leaves on the streets. _________________ Flint Michigan Resident, Tax Payer, Flint Nutt - Local REALTOR - Activist. www.FlintTown.com Sat Dec 04, 2010 10:45 pm  Adam F L I N T O I D I thought the city crews did a pretty good job on the East side especially considering they don't even have real leaf pickup equipment like they have in Davison. Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:29 pm  Dave Starr F L I N T O I D quote: Ryan Eashoo schreef: But you must realize that it's hard to pick up leaves in a city the size of Flint on 8 hour days, 5 days a week. In the past they did it quicker with overtime. Some areas of the city still have leaves on the streets. SOME areas?? We're in area 4 on the pickup map, and NOTHING has been done here. _________________ I used to care, but I take a pill for that now. Pushing buttons sure can be fun. When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way. Paddle faster, I hear banjos. Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:21 am  untanglingwebs El Supremo quote: Ryan Eashoo schreef: But you must realize that it's hard to pick up leaves in a city the size of Flint on 8 hour days, 5 days a week. In the past they did it quicker with overtime. Some areas of the city still have leaves on the streets. Ryan - This time I believe the crews actually screwed it up because they wanted overtime. I believe this because some of my friends in the Court St area confronted the workers. The workers complaints were no overtime and not liking Walling. Citizens complaints made them come back and do it right. With so many houses burnt down on the east side, how many leaves were raked into the streets? Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:33 am  twotap F L I N T O I D COMPOST folks. _________________ "If you like your current healthcare you can keep it, Period"!! Barack Hussein Obama--- multiple times. Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:37 am  untanglingwebs El Supremo quote: twotap schreef: COMPOST folks. Good idea exept the city is using Chevy in the hole as a compost site and the smell is horrendous. I once had a compost pile until I tried to turn it. The neighbors tree liked it and my compost activator so much that it's roots were all intangled in my compost. My back yard had so many trees, those little compost bins the stores sell wouldn't cut it. Since my neighbors removed 4 large trees (dying and all under utility wires) I may try again. Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:01 am  twotap F L I N T O I D A properly done backyard compost dosent smell bad at all. In the end lots of great nutrient rich soil. Keep it turned, keep it damp and let the sun shine on it. _________________ "If you like your current healthcare you can keep it, Period"!! Barack Hussein Obama--- multiple times. Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:08 am  Dave Starr F L I N T O I D When our back yard was mostly a vegetable garden, I'd rake all our leaves into the garden area & till them under. It worked great. Now, since the back yard's mostly a pond, that's not possible. I'll use the fish poop to fertilize the flower beds now. _________________ I used to care, but I take a pill for that now. Pushing buttons sure can be fun. When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way. Paddle faster, I hear banjos. Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:09 am  Cornbread Maxwell F L I N T O I D Has anyone proposed canceling the leaf pickup program? Sure seems like a luxury with the current fiscal battle we have. Make people bag their own, fine them if they do not, lay off the leaf pickup crew and hire a cop or two instead. Is Walling or anyone in the council considering this simple cost savings? Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:22 pm  Dave Starr F L I N T O I D As I'm typing this, the leaves are being picked up. Most of them, anyway. _________________ I used to care, but I take a pill for that now. Pushing buttons sure can be fun. When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way. Paddle faster, I hear banjos. Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:06 am    Display posts from previous:   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First

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