Remarks by Roy Williams, Jr.
10 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
“Yes, ma'am. Okay. So when residents move, vacate, you know, and they leave the cans, who's responsible? Like I see the trucks go by, but they'll just let them, you know, weekly be there until finally a neighbor tells the neighborhood association, hey, those cans have been there and that house has been empty two months, that type of thing. Do you all have a system that you realize that, you know, there's no longer a pickup but the cans are still there?”
“OK, so I'm speaking on abandonment, eviction. When a relationship goes sour, and the person's out the house now, and the cans are still there, but you're saying what the association or neighbors need to do is just call Republic and say, hey, there's two cans at this empty house, pretty much.”
“Well, I think the neighbors were thinking because the trucks, you know, drive by it, they see them, but they just drive, that's why. But now I can tell them, hey, they have to be notified. You know, and we'll do it. I mean, you know, they have officers and an organization. So the association has just reported so that you're notified and then you'll get it because not all people who leave these homes or apartments, not all of them do that notification to stop service. Thank you.”
“Thank you, Mary. Thank you, Director. I really give your department a hard time, but I'm going to thank them. This response to this last storm was really, really amazing. I mean, I was very proud. Anytime Barb Jones calls me up and thanks me and the crews, I mean, because Barb knows the business, but I'm telling you, that thing hit at Harvard Park, I think, and came across the Glen Eyre like that, and I just had tons of, of blockages and trees. There's just trees everywhere. I've always said I got them old trees. But I want to thank you because I never do. And this time I want you to thank…”
“I'm concerned about the... I am kind of concerned about the next pickup. compared to what we have out there. And I do realize that these storms are extra. So the mayor's onto something about something's different because these things coming and they're blowing things down and they're raining extra, extra, extra hard and all this stuff. But you guys are trying to keep up and I want them to know I do appreciate them. Thank you.”
“Yes, Mayor. I would like to introduce amendment one proposed amendment one uh to this ordinance uh this is something that many in the city have been wanting to see wanting it to happen of course as you know our voice um last week how i would do it a little different and and felt like we shouldn't give the way free In doing all this and thinking about all this and what you all want, what all of mine wants, I narrowed it down to some things that I think we must guarantee. I mean, I see us up here and we really don't make sense a lot of times because we'll take a guy from a TIF, want $10,000,…”
“Yeah, we already knew he was thankful to the governor. This is what they do. But I'll say this. What about the money that we've invested? We're supposed to be broke. Mayor tells me all the time, we're broke. We can't. We're broke. when we want to do something for the people, we're broke. Want to do something for one of these municipalities of the state, I'll give it to you or I'll find a way to make it happen. My thing to you, you was up here when a lot of this happened. I just think you should do your due diligence and at least make the state do the guarantees. You vote against an amendment…”
“Yes. No one is saying, just don't mix it up is what I'm saying. It was a simple amendment because I can keep going on with this. So when I first asked you about this, you said it was some EPA issues. Now we're at this point is getting ready to pass. Is it still an EPA issue?”
“Who's going to have to mitigate, us or them?”
“There's nothing in it that says if the state finds something, now hear me clearly, if the state finds something, it comes back to us. Because in our meeting, I thought I heard you tell me that.”