Dear Editor:
I live in a floathome at a marina in Queensborough with six other floathomes. We all pay property tax, however, we are allotted only two garbage bins in total for these floathomes and all the other boats in the marina.
This week, our garbage bins were not picked up. Not because they had wrong content or were too heavy, it was because the two bins had been placed too close together on the road. The stickers left on the bins even had a printed explanation for that very reason.
Try and understand the twisted civic logic that rather than move one of the bins so the garbage could have been picked up and leave a sticker asking that the bins not be placed so close in future, the garbage driver had circled the reason on the two stickers and placed them on the bins, leaving behind the garbage.
Being the height of summer, it will be another week for this garbage to rot and even more garbage to collect in another weeks time.
This is an appalling attitude shown by this civic employee, and they should be ashamed of their thoughtless action.
Hopefully there is some accountability in city hall for this kind of mindlessness and they will be reminded of just who pays their salaries.
Gavin Wishart, New Westminster
