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| In anticipation of a September start to the curbside recycling program, the Kaien Road Recycling centre installed a weigh scale. With the suspension of the curbside program until 2022, the scale won't see much use now until January at the earliest |
A new piece of equipment at the Kaien Road Recycling Centre is now in place and awaiting its introduction for use, with North Coast Regional District having recently finished installing a weigh scale at the facility.
The project part of the Recycling Centre's preparations towards the City of Prince Rupert curbside recycling program, which was announced with a fair bit of fanfare earlier this summer.
However, as we noted in August, that program has now been suspended until at least January of 2022, that after the City determined that the curbside pick up element of the program was not quite ready for Prime time.
On Monday, the City of Prince Rupert Facebook page, offered up a reprise to their August 20th announcement; with the feedback from those who follow the page much the same as that which greeted the late on a Friday afternoon information drop of earlier in the month.
Upon review of some of the comments and questions from the city's Facebook followers, the need for a bit more information from the city as to the nature of the delay and their approach to planning for its launch might be required.
It was an opportunity that City Council passed up on at their last Council meeting of August 23rd when the topic never made it into their lively discussion on other topics of the night.
For the most part, City Council as a group has been rather quiet on the delayed launch of the curbside program, something that wasn't the case upon the announcement earlier this summer, back when we had a video from the Mayor and much praise for the arrival of the program around the Council chamber.
With the announcement of the deferral til the New year, the topic has even faded from view on the Mayor's political Facebook page which usually trumpets all of Council's initiatives large and small.
Since they have three months or so to consider the launch, Council members may wish to perhaps seek out further feedback from the public as to what they would prefer for a recycling program.
That to see if what they plan to provide, is actually meeting the wishes of those who will use it ... or not.
Since they're laying low on the topic, they'll just have to use the comments to the City Facebook page as the Focus Group for now it seems.
August 30th Notice
August 20th Notice
More on the City's recycling travails can be reviewed from our archive page here.
Further items of note from City Council can be reviewed from our Council Discussion page.
If I was a councilor, I would ask the following question at the meeting on September 20th.
ReplyDeleteDid Richard Pucci or anyone from his staff conduct route rides with any operators between July 12 and August 19th?
If they did not, they very likely did not witness start up challenges first hand.
If they did, I would dig into the real root cause behind the delay.
At the end of the day, I am unsure if our administration is distracted or overloaded with other priorities.
This program is a priority, and with this delay it once again highlights a disconnect between council strategy and the tactical ability of the administration at city hall to deliver on council strategy.
Signed, a disappointed resident.