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Council Meeting - 7/18/05 Page 8 Dr. Parker said when you try to do something, people tell you they are wild flowers; we dealt with that on Wilson Mills. Dr. Parker agreed it was a problem. Dr. Parker said, while we were on the subject of trash and talking about toters and everything, he was driving watching J & J Refuse truck lifts whatever it is, that thing, to dump its trash, watching trash flying out, this is from the side of the truck, onto the grass and everything. Mr. Metzung asked if the truck was moving forward at the time. Dr. Parker said he doesn't know, but he watched trash fly out of that bin. That has been a problem, with trash along the street. It used to be with our old trash pick up, they were there quickly, now it seems like it takes them forever to pick up the trash; it sits out for hours and hours. Mr. Buckholtz stated we've discussed this before and doesn't recall if Dr. Parker was at that meeting. Dr. Parker felt that we just aren't getting as good of service as we've had in the past. Mr. Metzung said, as far as your trash sits out, maybe your neighbor's trash gets picked up first thing in the morning now as opposed to you used to be first thing in the morning. Their routing could be different. As far as the trash coming out of the truck, that is something that needs to be addressed. Mr. Saponaro said that Citizen's Advisory does not suggest it's the Village's responsibility to clean up the trash, but what is our responsibility is to make sure that the property owners, residential and commercial property owners, are going into the yards and cleaning up the garbage. We don't know how to enforce that. Mr. Saponaro further stated that he put it in his article in the Voice of the Village; I guess we could all do that but there has got to be a better way. V6~e're creating this beautiful Village and then you are watching Yours Truly trash going across the parking lot because someone threw their coffee cup down. Mr. Buckholtz stated, if he may just dovetail, he was speaking with the Mayor about this earlier in the week. Mr. Saponaro had brought to Council, the idea of a beautification committee or having people from Activities Committee, cross pollination between Citizen's Advisory and Activities and getting a beautification program, which really comes off of that. If you are beautifying, then trash has to be going away. Mr. Buckholtz further stated that we need someone to take the bull by the horns; maybe someone between Garden Club, Activities and the Citizen Advisory, we should put out the word that we need to get a network of people together. Mr. Saponaro stated we have a group of people that wants to be a part of that, but they don't want to have to start it up, they'll help someone else facilitate it but they thought it was the Mayor who would be in charge of that and they would work with him on it, because Mayor Rinker has always pushed so much on the beautification and allowing monies and things like that for landscaping and streets like that. Mayor Rinker said the point is well taken.